Theory and practice / edited by Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew.

"Papers and commentaries read at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Washington, D.C., in December 1992"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practicefocuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the most influential thinkers of our generation including Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nussbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt. What are the relations between philosophical theories and everyday life? This question, as old as it is profound, is the central focus ofTheory and Practice. The contributors include some of the most influential thinkers of our generation, among them Cass Sunnstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nessbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenwalt. In sixteen chapters--all published here for the first timethe authors examine major attempts to reconcile theory with practice in the Western tradition from Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle to Kant and Heidegger. Considerable attention is devoted to the role of theory in judicial decision-making, debates between defenders of the value of pure theory and those who argue for the priority of practice, the political implications of theory, practical problems such as global warming, and the theoretical commitments of practitioners from Karl Marx to Vaclav Havel. One of the most expansive volumes in the NOMOS series to date, Theory and Practicewill be of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists from a wide range of disciplines.

Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THE DEBATE ON THEORY AND PRACTICE; 1. The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle's Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World; 2. Kant on Theory and Practice; PART II: THE VALUE OF PURE THEORY; 3. High Theory, Low Theory, and the Demands of Morality; 4. Psychological Realism and Moral Theory; 5. What Plato Would Allow; PART III: ARGUMENTS FOR THE PRIORITY OF PRACTICE; 6. "Lawyer for Humanity:" Theory and Practice in Ancient Political Thought; 7. The Theoretical Importance of Practice.

8. Avoidable Necessity: Global Warming, International Fairness, and Alternative EnergyPART IV: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE LAW; 9. On Legal Theory and Legal Practice; 10. Religious Resistance to the Kantian Sovereign; 11. On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness; PART V: THE PUBLIC IMPLICATIONS OF THEORY; 12. Public Practical Reason: Political Practice; 13. "Truth" or Consequences; PART VI: PRACTITIONERS AS THEORISTS; 14. The End of Morality? Theory, Practice, and the "Realistic Outlook" of Karl Marx.

15. Heidegger and Political Philosophy: The Theory of His Practice16. A Performer of Political Thought: Václav Havel on Freedom and Responsibility; Index.

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