恐怖の時代の政治哲学

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  • The Political Philosophy in the Era of Terror
  • キョウフ ノ ジダイ ノ セイジ テツガク

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In this paper I discuss problems of war and peace in situations in which war and peace are intermingled and compounded, such as the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 and the war on terrorism thereafter.<br>Modernity can be understood as a movement which aims to overcome the supposed naturalness of a state of war and which ends by actualizing ‘the universal and homogeneous state’ in which everything natural is transformed into the artificial or conventional and in which even the political is eventually eliminated. Although the aim of this state was to produce freedom, equality, and peace, in fact, what is created is a kind of mechanism, something far from a genuine or lasting peace.<br>Today's world situation is only a new phase of the same collapse of modernity which we have experienced in the tyrannies of the 20th century, such as Nazism, Fascism etc. It is therefore a symptom of the crisis of modernity, prepared and enabled by modern natural right theories and social philosophies, and expressing their peculiar understanding of nature and power. This being so, we may be able to change and improve the world only by rethinking the modern understanding of nature, humanity and power, in a way linked with the insights of contemporary scientific knowledge.<br>I propose to revive classical rationalism in order to overcome this crisis of modernity, since it has the ability to remedy the faults of modern rationalism which led us to the crisis. This claim that we should revive classical rationalism is tantamount to the attempt to revive political philosophy in its original sense, and it amounts to asserting that political power should coincide with philosophy. Bearing in mind Leo Strauss's interpretation, I discuss the post-modern rule of the philosopher-king as a solution to today's distinctive difficulties.

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  • 哲学

    哲学 2008 (59), 27-43,L10, 2008-04-01

    日本哲学会

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