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Very useful to have Williams' unpublished papers. The only reviewer so far asks, "What, no reviews yet?
The arguments in the individual essays can be quite densely conducted at times, and the allusions to some other philosophical positions might be a bit opaque to readers who don't know these positions and I'm one of those , but when it matters, he says enough explicitly to enable us to follow his thought. My only stylistic quibble is that after some complicated sentences, it not always easy to know what the antecedents of the pronouns in the subsequent sentences are.
In the Beginning Was the Deed
The large program of this series of essays, suggested in the book's subtitle, is the establishment empirically and logically of the priority of "realism" over moralism in political thinking. This is particularly important for liberal political thinking, for Williams seems to believe that liberals tend to rush to establish morality as the basis of their political thinking -- and usually a "universal" morality at that -- when Williams would insist that issues of arbitrary power and security must be acknowledged.
He seems to be a Hobbesian to the extent that he believes that frequently and maybe usually the results of mankind's natural tendencies require amelioration, but he won't go all the way with Hobbes in seeing a moral stance as simply irrelevant to political considerations; rather, he believes moral stances and moral arguments must be carefully deployed and must acknowledge their rootedness not in some "universal" but in specific historical circumstances.
It's not simply a case of "Security first, then ethics" to mangle Brecht , but rather that political analysis and political programs must start by acknowledging what is the source of insecurity or instability in a political situation before adducing a moral response that seems to make sense in relation to the particular historical circumstance that requires improvement.
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Arguments from universals won't cut any ice with those who don't buy that your universals are really universal. That needs to be acknowledged, and Williams acknowledges it and goes on from there. Andrew Norris - - Philosophy in Review 27 4: Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, , Pp.
Realism and Moralism in Political Argument Princeton: Princeton University Press, , Pp.
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
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