The Ivory Tower and The Marble Citadel
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The Ivory Tower and The Marble Citadel

Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures

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eBook - PDF

The Ivory Tower and The Marble Citadel

Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures

About this book

The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. 1. Political Rationality and the Four Premises
  8. 2. Factual and Normative Continuity
  9. 3. Selfhood and Authority in Neo-Confucian Political Culture
  10. 4. The Confucian Concept of Moral Autonomy
  11. 5. Gadamer, Liu Xiao-gan, and “Neo-Hegelianism”
  12. 6. Mou Zong-san and the Four Premises
  13. 7. Stephen C. Angle and the Human Rights Discourse in China
  14. 8. Epistemological Implications of Culture
  15. 9. Lao Sze-kwang’s Concept of Modernity
  16. 10. Donald J. Munro’s Utilitarianism
  17. 11. Revisiting John Dunn’s Liberalism
  18. 12. Overdosing on Iconoclasm
  19. 13. Rethinking U.S.-Chinese Relations
  20. 14. Understanding the Taiwan Experience (with R. H. Myers)
  21. 15. A 1994 Self-Appraisal
  22. Glossary and Index