Title: Manners and Laws: Could a Global State Be a Republic?
Abstract: Political realism could have several roots, but they somehow share some common features—all of them doubt that modern utopianism is a viable political solution, just the other way round, it is the problem itself. The mistake is usually committed when two things are confused: whereas normativity has ambiguous impacts on political action, it is indispensable in the formation of man's second nature, often called manners. The insight that provided the topic of this chapter was directly prompted by Edmund Burke, and indirectly by thinkers like Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, who believed that seeing the tension between the idea of a good government and the ideological-bound modern politics is a viable alternative to take a serious look at the origins of ancient political philosophy. It is a matter of fact that throughout the history of Europe, there were renewed attempts to consult ancient wisdom whenever Europe had wanted to respond to a crisis, take a step ahead, or simply preserve what had been achieved. This was the case with the awesome Renaissance period, during the age of the debate between the ancients and the moderns, to lesser extent in the Enlightenment, and with the renewal of classical political thought of the twentieth century with thinkers like Voegelin, Strauss, Arendt, Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Jacques Maritain, and others.KeywordsWorld StateMoral OrderGood GovernmentCivil ReligionModern MindThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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