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Liberating Republicanism
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog What do I mean by liberating Republicanism? A few things. I mean liberating Machiavelli the Republican theorist from the...
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Adam Smith, the City, Natural Order, Republicanism
Primary version if this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog At the end of Book III, Chapter 1, ‘Of the Natural Progress of Opulence’, of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the...
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Slavery and Absolute Property in Adam Smith
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog. In An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Smith is concerned with slavery in a number of ways, all...
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Adam Smith: Bourgeois Republican Patriotism
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog. The final post on my recent re-reading of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The end of the...
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The Relevance of Adam Smith
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog I’m retuning to the issue of interpreting Adam Smith, which I referred to when posting in the Manchester Metropolitan...
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FNS 09: War and Liberty; Aristocracy and Liberalism
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog. In my first post (three posts ago) on the Friedrich Nietzsche Society 2009 conference, I mentioned a point I made in the...
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Liberal and Libertarian Foucault I: Overview
Primary version of this post, with visual content, at Barry Stocker’s Weblog. Michel Foucault is often taken as emblematic of radical leftism, but it is also well known that from about 1975 he showed...
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Some Good Links: Persons, Ethics, Politics, Economy
1. Persons (and ethical agency) ‘The I in Me’.. Thomas Nagel reviews Galen Strawson’s book Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics. London Review of Books. 5th November 2009. Nage; a...
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Aristotle Against Orientalism: Carthaginian Perspective
Aristotle is turning up as a major party to a supposed ‘Orientalist’ tradition in political theory. ‘Orientalism’ in general refers to the perspective in which western culture has considered other...
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Nietzsche’s Republican Hero: Lazare Carnot
Daybreak, 167 there is a a profound maxim worth laying to heart: ‘What matters is not people but things [quoted by Nietzsche in French]’. This maxim, is like him who spoke it, great, honest, simple and...
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Situating Tocqueville in Debates about Republicanism, Liberalism and...
The overall argument here is that Tocqueville is an example of what could be called libertarian republicanism, what for Tocqueville is simply a concern for liberty in its political, civil and personal...
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Article 5
Tocqueville is not part of Pettit’s egalitarian liberal version of republicanism, but that does not mean he is further from antique republicanism, Athenian or Roman, than Pettit, or that he is further...
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Situating Tocqueville in Debates about Republicanism, Liberalism and...
One of the various clichés floating around with regard to Tocqueville is that he was in favour of decentralisation in every respect, and that the value he placed on the American republic refers...
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Political Judgement, Justice and Republicanism I (Istanbul Talk on Hannah...
There has not bee much blogging for a while as my attention has been taken by the political drama here in Turkey. I will post about that, but when I am ready to say something considered and reflective....
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Political Judgement, Justice and Republicanism II (Istanbul Talk on Hannah...
There is distinct interest in aristocracy and competitive excellence in Arendt, which do not obviously lend themselves to egalitarian redistributionist projects, she is more Tocqueville and Burckhardt...
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Political Judgement, Justice and Republicanism III (Istanbul Talk on Hannah...
Hannah Arendt’s political theory, and broader account of the human world, amongst other things, shows a way that we can understand the movement from antique philosophical contempt for the slave, and...
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Political Judgement, Justice and Republicanism IV (Istanbul Talk on Hannah...
The political realm in antiquity was the realm of a kind of freedom which could not belong to everyone, as some have to labour, including the labour done by slaves. The political sphere was one of...
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Adam Smith on Colonialism and Republicanism, Antique and Modern. Paris Talk I
First of several posts of the parts of a paper presented at the conference Scotland, Europe and Empire in the Age of Adam Smith and Beyond on 4th July 2013, in the Guizot Ampitheatre of the University...
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Adam Smith on Colonialism and Republicanism, Antique and Modern. Paris Talk II
The completely anti-republican nature of the negative models of colonialism is matched by the purity of the republican forms of the positive forms of republicanism, which are Greek and British in north...
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Adam Smith on Colonialism and Republicanism, Antique and Modern. Paris Talk...
We should think of Smith’s work on colonialism and empire as including relations between England, Scotland and Ireland, and relations between the Anglo parts of Ireland and Scotland, and the rest. This...
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