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Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice is a collection of essays of the moral and political philosophy of Jan Narveson. The essays in this collection share a consistent theme running through much of Narveson's moral and political philosophy, namely that politics and morals stem from the interests of individual people, and have no antecedent authority over us. The essays in this collection, in various ways and as applied to various aspects of the scene, argue that the ultimate and true point of politics and morals is to enable us to make our lives better, according to our varied senses of wh

This chapter explores the development of political theory in Oxford through the work of Cole, Berlin, Plamenatz, Taylor and Cohen, the five previous holders of the Chichele Chair. It focuses particularly on the apparent threat to political theory posed by the rise of empirically based social science. Five possible responses are distinguished: capitulation, retreat, command, attack, and collaboration. Retreat involves reinterpreting political theory as a purely philosophical enterprise: it was pursued to some extent by Berlin and wholeheartedly by Cohen. Command involves interpreting social and political theory as the master science that incorporates more specific bodies of social research: it was pursued by Cole. Attack involves emphasizing the limits of social science, especially its claims to be value-neutral and genuinely explanatory: it was pursued to a degree by Plamenatz and more forcefully by Taylor. The chapter concludes by reflecting on why the final strategy, collaboration, was not pursued by these scholars.

Hannah Arendt and Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich produced influential accounts of the postwar West-German population's silence or inarticuleteness. The Mitscherlichs claimed that this silence was symptomatic of a blocked process of mourning; Arendt saw it as a legacy of brutal totalitarian rule. However, both viewed the rapid economic recovery as evidence of the German inability to engage in discursively mediated therapeutic and political processes. Frantic busyness was a form of silence. This paper presents a critical reassessment of these approaches. By drawing on Albert Hirschman's theory of exit and voice, it argues that economic activity possesses a communicative dimension. The alleged retreat from politics is not a symptom of muteness but rather indicates people's preference for an alternative mode of communication. Arendt and the Mitscherlich may be right in assuming a correlation between the postwar economic recovery and ostensible political apathy, but lack the conceptual means to clarify the relationship.

What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? This title includes the papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. It explores the question: What does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?.

Model theory is an important area of mathematical logic which has deep philosophical roots, many philosophical applications, and great philosophical interest in itself. The aim of this book is to introduce, organise, survey, and develop these connections between philosophy and model theory, for the benefit of philosophers and logicians alike.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2: Between Philosophy and Rhetoric: Plato and Aristotle -- 2.1 Introduction: Philosophy Against Rhetoric? -- 2.2 Plato's Paradigmatic Critique of Rhetoric on Behalf of Philosophy -- 2.3 Aristotle's Full Revaluation of Rhetoric -- Chapter 3: The Union of Philosophy and Rhetoric: Cicero and Quintilian -- 3.1 Introduction: Bringing Philosophy and Rhetoric Together -- 3.2 Cicero: Eloquence as a Political, Ethical, and Existential Ideal -- 3.3 Quintilian's Institutio oratoria and the Rhetorical Formation of the Self -- Part II -- Chapter 4: Politics as Transcendence: Leo Strauss -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Modern Oblivion of Eternity -- 4.3 The Recovery of Classical Philosophy: From Contingency to Transcendence -- 4.4 Strauss's Philosophical Rhetoric: Or on the Art of Writing Between the Lines -- Chapter 5: Politics as Contingency: Richard Rorty -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Rorty's Humanism: The Priority of Language and Politics over Truth and Philosophy -- 5.3 Rorty's Antihumanism and the Unpersuasiveness of the Public/Private Division -- 5.4 At the Bottom of Rorty's Public/Private Division -- Chapter 6: Politics as Transcendence and Contingency: Hannah Arendt -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Arendt's Political Critique of Philosophy -- 6.3 Politics Between Contingency and Transcendence -- 6.4 Politics as Judgment and Persuasion -- 6.5 Conclusion: Politics Between Distinction and Deliberation, Agonism and Persuasion -- Chapter 7: Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index