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Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels - Shocked by The Just Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels - Shocked by The Just Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Recovering Political Philosophy
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This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a
political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on
politics in Swift's writings, this has usually meant a study of how
Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and
state, and Ireland. Robertson claims by contrast that Gulliver's
Travels is fundamentally a book about the "ancients" (e.g. Plato,
Aristotle), and the "moderns" (science and technology), and their
contrasting views about the human condition. The claim that the
Travels is "a kind of prolegomena" to political philosophy leaves
open the possibility that it does not achieve, or seek to achieve,
a fusion of various teachings but rather uses the device of alien
societies to point us to uncomfortable aspects of political
philosophy's "larger questions" we are prone to ignore. Swift,
Robertson argues, draws our attention to some version of the
classical republic, as idealized in Aristotle's political writings
and in Plato's Republic, as opposed to a modern regime which, at
its best or most intellectual, emphasizes modern science and
technology in combination as a way to improve the human condition.
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