Ebook: Reason and Self-Enactment in History and Politics: Themes and Voices of Modernity
Author: F.M. Barnard
- Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 40
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language: English
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F.M. Barnard goes beyond the seventeenth-century understanding of the social contract by making national self-enactment contingent on public reasons for individual liberty within civic mutuality. He examines the possibilities and limits for a self-enacting, principled politics, acknowledging reason and self-enactment as central concepts of historical and political thinking. He argues, however, that reason must be seen as practical reason, which only indirectly acts as a cause, while self-enactment must be understood as operating in relation to reciprocity with the other.
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