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Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy: Rawls and Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas

By (author) Daniel Dombrowski

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John Rawls is the most influential 20th century political philosopher, but critics have complained about the ahistorical character of his approach. The purpose of this book is to argue that these critics are, at best, only half correct.Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy concentrates on four pre-liberal thinkers who are major figures in the history of philosophy and who are surprisingly formative in the development of Rawlsâ€™s mature political philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. Several illuminating connections are drawn between Rawlsâ€™s political liberalism and Platoâ€™s contrasting appeal to the â€œnoble lieâ€ in politics, between Rawlsâ€™s overall method of reflective equilibrium and Aristotleâ€™s dialectic, between Rawlsâ€™s opposition to merit in the distribution of wealth and Augustineâ€™s similar anti-Pelagian stance, and between Rawlsâ€™s view of a just society as a common good of common goods and the natural law dimension of Aquinasâ€™s philosophy. In general, the distance between Rawlsian abstraction and his historical embeddedness is lessened considerably.

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