Virtue in Political Life: Yves Simon's Political Philosophy for Our Times 9956762830, 9789956762835
Yves R. Simon (1903-1961), one of the greatest contemporary philosophers, gives a modern formulation for many classical...
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Table of contents :

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1 - The Definition of Moral Virtue

I: Modern Substitutes for Virtue and their Inadequacy

The Recourse to Natural Goodness

Social Engineering

Psycho-Technology

II: Towards a Definition of Virtue

Problems of Translation Regarding Hexis

Virtue is not Habit

Virtue is not Grounded in Opinion

Virtue is not Science

III: Understanding Aristotle’s Definition of Virtue

Distinguishing Virtue from a False Intention and from Vice

The Intellectual and Moral Virtues in Practice

The Interdependence of the Virtues: The Aristotelian and Stoic Positions

The Definition of Moral Virtue

Knowledge of Moral Axioms through Instinct

Chapter 2: Virtue in Public Life: Simon’s Concept of the Common Good

I: Brief Historical Overview

Introduction

The Birth and Evolution of the Concept: Ancient Greek Philosophy to Medieval Times

The State of the Concept in Modern and Contemporary Thought

II: The Threefold Classificatory Scheme of Virginia Held as Outlined in the Public Interest and Individual Interests and her Concept of the Public Interest

Preliminary Considerations

The “Preponderance Theories” of Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Jeremy Bentham

The “Public Interest as Common Interest” Theory

The “Unitary Conception”

Virginia Held’s Proposed Constituent Elements of the Common Good

III: Simon’s Concept of the Common Good

Two Misconceptions of the Common Good

Simon’s Concept of the Common Good

Drawing the Threads Together

Chapter 3: Virtue in Public Life: The Virtue of Theoretical Truth and the Virtue of the Ruler and the Ruled

Introduction

I: The Virtue of Theoretical Truth

The Truth Value of Witness

The Truth Value of Science

The Truth Value of Creative Freedom

Freedom of the Intellect: The Trouble with the Position of the Liberals

Truth and the Market Place of Ideas

The Role of Authority in Teaching Transcendent Truth

II: The Virtue of the Ruler and the Ruled

Rule by the Virtuous

Rule by the Experts or by an Elite

Freedom from Self: Obedience as Perfective

Chapter 4: Virtue In Public Life: Virtue and Law

Introduction

I: Virtue and the Idea of Natural Law and Philosophical Challenges to the Idea

The Idea of Natural Law

Philosophical Challenges to the Idea of Natural Law

II: Virtue and Facets of Positive Law and Natural Law

On the Existence of the Just by Nature

On Knowledge of Natural Moral Law

On Law as Premise and Conclusion: The Role of Virtue

On God as the Author of Natural Law and Natural Moral Law

Conclusion

Bibliography

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