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Part I: Two historiographical problems in search of solutions -- Introduction : the two problems -- Logic and method in the history of political thought -- Part II: The pastness of past political thinking -- The pastness of the historical past -- Oakeshott on the history of political thinking -- Pocock and Skinner on Oakeshott -- Part III: The varieties of past political thinking -- Hobbes's Leviathan : ideology and philosophy -- The logic of the history of political philosophy -- Conclusion : the use and abuse of history.

In this chapter, the author discusses Oakeshott's offering of a philosophical account of the relationship between poetry & practical life in "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind." The barbarism of science & practical activity, & the philosophical elucidation during this era of cultural decline reflects an appropriation of the domain of the poetic by the forces of science & practical activity. Participation in the "conversation of mankind" can surpass this barbaric culture by participation in the nonsymbolic world of art & poetry which are characterized by completely nonpractical playfulness. Play & play forms are the venues for society to expresses its interpretation of life & the world. Oakeshott's defense of liberal education advocates the liberal arts as one avenue to the understanding of & participation in the play element that will restore the "intimations of poetry" to the current bog of barbaric & domineering bores of practical life. 12 References. J. Harwell

ON THE SAME WEEKEND AS EAST GERMANS OFFICIALLY exchanged East Marx for real Marks, another kind of exchange took place between East and West German professors at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld. The recently established Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des politischen Denkens, in the person of Volker Gerhardt (Cologne), had invited some sixty senior philosophers, political theorists and political scientists from both sides of the inner-German border to discuss basic questions in political philosophy. The meeting was not a conference. The organizer, recognising the absence of any shared traditions of inquiry and debate, had issued invitations to a mere meeting. It was the first such meeting since the collapse of the East German Communist regime. In fact, it offered the first opportunity after almost six decades of dictatorships in the East for academics from the former front-lines, as it were, to reflect openly together on their subject, on their academic pasts and on their possible academic futures. Initially, the atmosphere was very tense. But, amazingly, the tensions soon evaporated. A strange sort of civility came to characterize the discussions both inside and outside the conference rooms. Conflicts were largely avoided, to the obvious relief of most participants. From an inner- German perspective, the meeting was a great success. At the end, Ernst Vollrath (Cologne) summed up a general view: 'We have begun to see that we can learn from one another.' But this reciprocity was not evident in the academic discussions. Something else was involved apart from the surface issue of Marxism-Leninism versus the rest of the world. It is worth reflecting on the development of the meeting and on what this something else was.

Intro -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- I. Aufsätze -- Wolfgang H. Pleger: Die geteilte Seele. Zum Verhältnis von Anthropologie und Ethik bei Platon -- I. Einleitung -- II. Anthropologie und Ethik auf dem Hintergrund des Leib-Seele-Dualismus -- 1. Platons rational-eudämonistische Ethik -- 2. Anthropologie nach dem Modell des Leib-Seele-Dualismus -- III. Die geteilte Seele - Anthropologie und Ethik in Platons Politeia -- 1. Über Glück und Gerechtigkeit (Politeia I) -- 2. Die Teile der Seele und des Staates (Politeia II-IV) -- 3. Die Tugenden der Stände und der Seele -- IV. Modifizierte Anthropologie - modifizierte Ethik -- 1. Anthropologie als Psychologie -- 2. Ethische Konflikte -- V. Resümee -- Howard Williams und Mirko Wischke: Zwischen Widerstandsrecht und starkem Staat. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Rezeptionsgeschichte von Hobbes -- I. Kant und der erste Übersetzer des Leviathan -- II. Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach und das Widerstandsrecht -- III. Carl Schmitt und der starke Staat -- IV. Ferdinand Tönnies und die historisch-systematische Hobbes-Interpretation -- V. Schlussbetrachtung -- Dieter Hüning: "Is not the power to punish essentially a power that pertains to the state?" The Different Foundations of the Right to Punish in Early Modern Natural Law Doctrines -- I. The Natural Right Approach to Punishment in Grotius and Locke -- II. The Public Law Approach to Punishment in Hobbes and Pufendorf -- III. The Question of the Right to Punish in the 18th Century -- Horst Denzer: Samuel Pufendorf - ein vergessener Klassiker des Naturrechts -- I. Berühmtheit zu seiner Zeit -- II. Ende des Ruhms -- III. Die prägenden Ideen -- IV. Das Naturrecht -- V. Leben in seiner Zeit -- VI. Wirkung -- Olaf Asbach: Die Konstitution politischer Freiheit. Grundlagen, Probleme und Aktualität der politischen Theorie der Aufklärung.

Das »Jahrbuch Politisches Denken« ist den elementaren Fragen der Politik gewidmet; es versammelt Beiträge aus allen Bereichen des politischen Lebens und will sowohl Fachwissenschaftler/innen als auch politisch interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürger gewinnen