Untuk menegakkan keadilan perlu ada formulasi yang memadai. Sejauh ini pembicaraan tentang keadilan sering tidak jelas konsep dan formulasinya. Bila ini terjadi maka langkah-langkah selajutnya akan sulit dikembangkan. Buku ini merupakan upaya untuk menemukan konsep dan formulasi keadilan secara teoretis dan yang sesuai dengan keadaan masyarakat. UNtuk pengembangan itu, diperlukan refrensi dan d…
"... Semaraknya intrik politik untuk menjegal orang, atau partai lain, membuat saya berpikir bahwa kita tak kunjung belajar dari kepahitan demi kepahitan yang pernah terjadi. Kekuatan suatu pihak membuatnya lupa membangun kebersamaan dengan pihak lain. Kita mungkin tak memiliki karma, bangsawan yang terbuang tetapi tetap satria, tetap tak bias dibutakan oleh kemakmuran duniawi. Kita mungkin Dur…
Our century has witnessed violence on an unprecedented scale, in wars that have torn deep into the fabric of national and international life. And as we can see in the recent strife in Bosnia, genocide in Rwanda, and the ongoing struggle to control nuclear weaponry, ancient enmities continue to threaten the lives of masses of human beings. As never before, the question is urgent and practical: H…
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume.
Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. At the same time, the celebrated pragmatist believed there could be no universally valid answers to moral questions, which led him to a complex view of relig…
This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the mere consequences of misguided language. His plain language and esstentially simple purpose place him in …
Dalam buku ini disajikan dasar-dasar berpolitik secara sehat dan bertanggung jawab. Ditegaskan bahwa berpolitik termasuk pergumulan kasih kepada sesama. Hal ini penting karena selama ini politik sudah terlalu sering dijadikan ajang homo homini lupus, serigala bagi sesama. Oleh karena itu, politik membutuhkan etos dan moralitas yang mantap, yang sebanding dengan tujuannya yang luhur.
Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral “truths…