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What Is Political Philosophy? What Is Political Philosophy? Charles Larmore Princeton University Press Princeton & Oxford Copyright © 2020 by Princeton University Press Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to [email protected] Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Larmore, Charles, 1950– author. Title: What is political philosophy? / Charles Larmore. Description: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019041504 (print) | LCCN 2019041505 (ebook) | ISBN 9780691179148 (hardback) | ISBN 9780691200873 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Political science— Philosophy. | Political ethics. | Legitimacy of governments. Classification: LCC JA79 .L38 2020 (print) | LCC JA79 (ebook) | DDC 320.01— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041504 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041505 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available Editorial: Rob Tempio and Matt Rohal Production Editorial: Natalie Baan Jacket Design: Chris Ferrante Production: Danielle Amatucci Publicity: Katie Lewis, Amy Stewart, and Alyssa Sanford Copyeditor: Hank Southgate This book has been composed in Arno Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Relation between Political and Moral Philosophy 18 2 The Truth in Political Realism 68 3 Political Liberalism and Legitimacy 122 Conclusion 172 Index 179 v Acknowledgments I am very grateful to the following people who have dis- cussed with me the material in this volume and commented on various parts of the manuscript: Derek Bowman, Eva Budde- berg, G. A. Cohen, David Estlund, Rainer Forst, Wilfried Hinsch, Daniel Layman, Matt Sleat, Kevin Vallier, and Michael Williams. I am particularly indebted to Jerry Cohen, who, shortly before his tragic death, gave me an extensive set of valu- able comments on a version of chapter 1 (and not just on the part devoted to his own work). I also want to thank Rob Tem- pio, my editor at Princeton University Press, for his encourage- ment and advice, as well as two anonymous referees for their helpful criticisms and suggestions. I thank as well Hank South- gate for his expert copyediting. Earlier versions of the three chapters of this book have ap- peared elsewhere, but they have been significantly revised and much expanded. I would like to thank the publishers of the original publications for their kind permission to reuse them here. Chapter 1, “The Relation between Political and Moral Phi- losophy,” was originally published under the title “What Is Po- litical Philosophy?,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 10, no. 3 (2012): 276– 306. Reprinted by permission of Koninklijke Brill NV. Chapter 2, “The Truth in Political Realism,” was originally published in Politics Recovered: Essays on Realist Political Theory, vii viii Acknowledgments ed. Matt Sleat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 27– 48. Reprinted by permission of Columbia University Press. Chapter 3, “Political Liberalism and Legitimacy,” was origi- nally published under the title “Political Liberalism: Its Moti- vations and Goals,” in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015): 63–8 8. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. What Is Political Philosophy?
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