Philosophy and Real Politics

Geuss, Raymond

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“…Será que a "teoria ideal" da justiça é capaz de orientar a ação -decisões políticas e escolhas institucionais -em condições não ideais? Se a resposta para essas duas perguntas for "não", como sustentam, nem sempre com os mesmos argumentos ou com argumentos similares, autores como Farrelly (2007), Geuss (2008), Mills (2005, O'Neill (1996), além, é claro, de Sen (2009), então deveríamos nos concentrar nas questões de justiça no domínio da teoria não ideal antes de nos envolvermos na formulação e justificação de princípios para uma sociedade justa. Nas versões mais fortes dessa objeção, como são as de Geuss, Mills, Farrelly e de Sen (embora nada menos que 150 páginas de A ideia de justiça sejam devotadas à discussão de uma teorização "redundante"!…”

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Teoria Política Normativa E Justiça Rawlsiana

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2017

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Este artigo tem o propósito de examinar certo modo de praticar a teoria política, no campo que vem sendo denominado "teoria política normativa", mais especificamente na área da teoria da justiça pós-Rawls 1 . A ideia não é tanto a de desenvolver uma argumentação sobre um único tópico relevante para a teoria política normativa, e sim a de realçar uma atitude metodológica geral e a de articular po sições, em diferentes debates teóricos e públicos correntes, que são relevantes para caracterizar esse modo de praticar a teoria política 2 . Principio, na primeira seção, por considerações mais gerais sobre a teoria política normativa e pelo modo como a reflexão normativa da vertente rawlsiana se 1 Este artigo é parte de um projeto que conta com o apoio de uma bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq. 2 Um parecerista anônimo desta revista, a quem agradeço por seus comentários, observou que faria mais sentido separar, em artigos diferentes, a discussão sobre a metodologia da teoria política e a discussão das questões controversas que serão examinadas adiante. Talvez isso fosse mesmo a coisa ideal a fazer, mas a estratégia que aqui adotei levou em conta que este artigo iria compor um dossiê sobre teoria política. O que se perdeu em aprofundamento, ganhou-se (ao menos é o que espero) em abrangência para caracterizar o que estou denominando "modo de praticar a teoria política". 93

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“…The philosopher and co-editor of the Cambridge Texts on the History of Political Thought, Raymond Geuss, rightly criticises the tendency of political philosophers to preoccupy themselves with the interpretation of canonical texts at the expense of any concern with what he terms 'real politics.' 85 And as Elden observes, a genealogy of the concept of territory, for example, can and should inform how we think about the politics of territory today. 86 For the genealogist, geographical concepts are not just to be found in the writings of geographers.…”

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Geography and other disciplines: genealogy, anamnesis and the canon

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2015

Journal of Historical Geography

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This article argues that the idea of the geographical canon has continuing value, although its constitution and scope need to be rethought. The argument draws on three sources of inspiration. One is the work of Quentin Skinner, who offered a critique of the idea of the canon of political thought before subsequently going on to act as the co-editor of a series of Texts in the History of Political Thought. The second is the method of genealogy, developed by Michel Foucault. Drawing on both the methodological writings of Foucault and their interpretation by Stuart Elden, I argue that the substance of a genealogy of geographical thought should not be confined to the work of geographers.The third inspiration for this article is the idea of anamnesis, introduced by the philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers in her study of the history of the physical sciences, Cosmopolitics. The practice of anamnesis, I argue, invites us to re-read texts that should continue to animate our thinking in the present. 2In an essay on "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas' first published in 1969, the historian Quentin Skinner launched a sustained and influential attack against the idea of the canon in political thought. The notion of a canon, Skinner contended, implied that there were a number of 'classic texts' that contained 'dateless wisdom' and 'universal ideas.' Moreover, belief in the value of the canon had rested, he suggested, on a series of questionable pre-judgements 'about the defining characteristics of the discipline to which the writer is supposed to have contributed.' 1 In opposition to what he termed the 'mythology' of the canon, Skinner's counter-proposition was straightforward.Drawing inspiration from the historical method proposed by RG Collingwood and the philosophy of the later Wittgenstein and JL Austin, he urged historians of political thought to focus on the meaning and use that texts had at the time they were written.Rather than read classic texts in terms of their relation to so-called 'canonical doctrines', Skinner argued that texts should be read in relation to the specific questions and problems with which their authors and readers were concerned. 2 In this light, the historian's dissatisfaction with what he took to be the then dominant approach to the interpretation of, for example, Descartes' Meditations 'stems from the fact that it leaves us without any sense of the specific question to which Descartes may have intended his doctrine of certainty as a solution.' 3 As Collingwood had argued, 'thinking is never done in vacuo: it is always done by a determinate person in a determinate situation.' 4 I begin by referring to Skinner's essay for two reasons. One is to recall that recent discussions about the value of a geographical canon come in the wake of a series of critiques of canonical thinking in other fields, including political theory. 5 In this context, Skinner's intervention was but one of a series of critical accounts of the notion of the canon spread across the social sciences an...

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“…And it is not clear that we fare that much better in this endeavour than others anyway. Secondly, the problems of vagueness, incoherence, incompleteness and ambiguity that dog our conceptions of the political ideal are the result of the sort of unavoidable epistemic limitations that face all human beings when we try and think about such fundamental yet complex normative questions (Geuss, 2008). The more questions we try and address simultaneously and fit together into some sort of system, and in the case of a vision of the political ideal this will necessarily be many, the more difficult achieving a coherent and complete response will become.…”

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Hope and disappointment in politics

Sleat

2013

Contemporary Politics

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Philosophy and Real Politics

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Geography and other disciplines: genealogy, anamnesis and the canon

Hope and disappointment in politics

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