Politics and Virtue: Radical Orthodoxy and Wisdom for the Common Good

This article reflects on political virtue in conversation with an influential manifesto from English Radical Orthodoxy: The Politics of Virtue, by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst. They see social and economic liberalism as destroying a sustaining metaphysics of communal abiding, with classical and Jud...

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Auteur principal: Cowdell, Scott 1960- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill [2018]
Dans: International journal of public theology
Année: 2018, Volume: 12, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 317-331
RelBib Classification:CG Christianisme et politique
NCD Éthique et politique
VA Philosophie
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Civil Society
B Radical Orthodoxy
B conservative socialism
B Secularisation
B post-liberalism
B Liberalism
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Résumé:This article reflects on political virtue in conversation with an influential manifesto from English Radical Orthodoxy: The Politics of Virtue, by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst. They see social and economic liberalism as destroying a sustaining metaphysics of communal abiding, with classical and Judaeo-Christian roots. They commend an ‘alternative modern' version of this past, albeit through British and European political traditions and arrangements preserving elements of its ‘conservative socialism.' Yet they undersell the spiritual capacities of secular modernity, also the political virtue of principled, non-ideological pragmatism. And they oversell the actual pacific character of that idealised past, since such closed worlds required the discrete use of violence to maintain order and boundaries. A more mainstream Christian account of political virtue today would see liberal autonomy augmented by a revived communitarianism, along with the civilizing of global capital.
ISSN:1569-7320
Contient:Enthalten in: International journal of public theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341545