Making Moral Judgments from a World-Historic Standpoint: The Case of Woodrow Wilson

This comment reflects on the recent row over Woodrow Wilson’s legacy, which has focussed on his undeniable racism. This was in pursuit of a ‘Progressive’ agenda which paved the way for the United States to become the geopolitical force that it continues to be today. Without necessarily approving of...

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Autor principal: Fuller, Steve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Culture and Society
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831985/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27122651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0019-3
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description This comment reflects on the recent row over Woodrow Wilson’s legacy, which has focussed on his undeniable racism. This was in pursuit of a ‘Progressive’ agenda which paved the way for the United States to become the geopolitical force that it continues to be today. Without necessarily approving of Wilson’s particular judgements, I argue that he operated with a ‘world-historic’ sense of morality characteristic of Realpolitik, a perspective which might be worth considering by those who believe that modern preoccupations with ‘race’, ‘class’ and ‘gender’ will remain part of the sociological firmament indefinitely.ᅟ
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spelling pubmed-48319852016-04-25 Making Moral Judgments from a World-Historic Standpoint: The Case of Woodrow Wilson Fuller, Steve Society Culture and Society This comment reflects on the recent row over Woodrow Wilson’s legacy, which has focussed on his undeniable racism. This was in pursuit of a ‘Progressive’ agenda which paved the way for the United States to become the geopolitical force that it continues to be today. Without necessarily approving of Wilson’s particular judgements, I argue that he operated with a ‘world-historic’ sense of morality characteristic of Realpolitik, a perspective which might be worth considering by those who believe that modern preoccupations with ‘race’, ‘class’ and ‘gender’ will remain part of the sociological firmament indefinitely.ᅟ Springer US 2016-03-30 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4831985/ /pubmed/27122651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0019-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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