Sep 2026· Iustinianus Primus Law Review· Vol 17, pp. 166· 0 citations· 14 references
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This paper identifies and highlights Mill and Raz’s perfectionist reasoning with respect to the state’s role in fostering freedom, which is simultaneously praised as an accounting of (what I see as) their successful reasoning on liberalism. By giving prominence to Mill’s widely overlooked perfectionist stance concerning the educational, cultural, and moral role that he attributed to the liberal state and by delineating, among others, Raz’s ideal of a state charged with the duty to enable citizens and authority’s conformity with reason, Idemonstrate the theoretical proximity between a prominent liberal (Mill) and an advocate of perfectionism (Raz) whose theoretical ‘models’ aim to cogently advance and defend the ideal of freedom by ascribing a proactive and enhanced role to the state, thus rendering it an efficient vehicle for the flourishing of self development and autonomy.
This paper reconstructs and addresses three major critiques of Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach (CA): (1) the claim that an exclusive focus on capabilities (rather than functioning) is ineffective in protecting people's well‐being; (2) the critique of paternalism; and (3) the objection according to which the CA...
Critics of neoliberalism increasingly examine its corrosive effects on democracy. Scholars often turn to Friedrich Hayek's political theory, arguing that it produces citizens who passively conform to spontaneous social orders. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the normative conception of the human individua...
George Kelly describes the personal construct system of psychotherapists as embodying liberalism without paternalism, though he offers little beyond its implications for psychotherapists. This paper revisits and expands the notion, situating it within Kelly’s psychological theory, constructivist philosophy, and its pra...
V. Miletić· Personal Construct Theory &a...· 0 citations
Niko Kolodny’s The Pecking Order includes a ‘book-length treatment’ of the idea of an ‘equal say’ (6) that is ubiquitous in commonplace talk and philosophical reflection about democracy.1 In this commentary I concentrate on the account of political representation that forms a main part of the ‘treatment’. That account...
This study examines political leadership in modern Europe through the relationship between reason of state and prudence. Reason of state prioritizes the state’s survival and strength, but separated from moral responsibility it can degenerate into the unrestrained pursuit of power.
Prudence is defined here as a leader’...
Chun-Shik Kim· Asia Europe Perspective Asso...· 0 citations
Scholars have read Leo Strauss’s
Thoughts on Machiavelli
(1958) as a theological-political treatise that offers timeless truths about politics. This article argues that it also aimed to convince American conservatives to embrace a muscular foreign policy. Strauss’s correspondence and seminar transcripts reveal th...
Nicholas Tampio· The Review of Politics· 0 citations
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