Politics and Virtue: Radical Orthodoxy and Wisdom for the Common Good

This article reflects on political virtue in conversation with an influential manifesto from English Radical Orthodoxy: The Politics of Virtue, by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst. They see social and economic liberalism as destroying a sustaining metaphysics of communal abiding, with classical and Jud...

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Autore principale: Cowdell, Scott 1960- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Brill [2018]
In: International journal of public theology
Anno: 2018, Volume: 12, Fascicolo: 3/4, Pagine: 317-331
Notazioni IxTheo:CG Cristianesimo e politica
NCD Etica politica
VA Filosofia
ZC Politica generale
Altre parole chiave:B Civil Society
B Radical Orthodoxy
B conservative socialism
B Secularisation
B post-liberalism
B Liberalism
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Riepilogo:This article reflects on political virtue in conversation with an influential manifesto from English Radical Orthodoxy: The Politics of Virtue, by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst. They see social and economic liberalism as destroying a sustaining metaphysics of communal abiding, with classical and Judaeo-Christian roots. They commend an ‘alternative modern' version of this past, albeit through British and European political traditions and arrangements preserving elements of its ‘conservative socialism.' Yet they undersell the spiritual capacities of secular modernity, also the political virtue of principled, non-ideological pragmatism. And they oversell the actual pacific character of that idealised past, since such closed worlds required the discrete use of violence to maintain order and boundaries. A more mainstream Christian account of political virtue today would see liberal autonomy augmented by a revived communitarianism, along with the civilizing of global capital.
ISSN:1569-7320
Comprende:Enthalten in: International journal of public theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341545