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The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi

One of John Horton’s most original and significant contributions to political theory is his development and exploration of the political theory of modus vivendi (MV). I examine what Horton understands a MV to be, what sort of theory he intends the political theory of MV to be, and why he believes a...

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Autor principal: Jones, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9800-1
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description One of John Horton’s most original and significant contributions to political theory is his development and exploration of the political theory of modus vivendi (MV). I examine what Horton understands a MV to be, what sort of theory he intends the political theory of MV to be, and why he believes a MV to be the best we can reasonably hope for. I consider how far his notion of MV matches the reality of contemporary political systems and whether ‘liberal moralism’ is quite as divorced from reality or as devoid of practical consequence as his political theory of MV would have us believe.
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spelling pubmed-60862352018-08-23 The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi Jones, Peter Philosophia (Ramat Gan) Article One of John Horton’s most original and significant contributions to political theory is his development and exploration of the political theory of modus vivendi (MV). I examine what Horton understands a MV to be, what sort of theory he intends the political theory of MV to be, and why he believes a MV to be the best we can reasonably hope for. I consider how far his notion of MV matches the reality of contemporary political systems and whether ‘liberal moralism’ is quite as divorced from reality or as devoid of practical consequence as his political theory of MV would have us believe. Springer Netherlands 2017-01-12 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6086235/ /pubmed/30147163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9800-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 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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