[SydPhil] Invitation: USyd Postgrad Work in Progress Talk: Brenton Dart @ Tue 12 Mar 2013 16:30 - 18:00 (sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au)

[Simon Varey]

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Title: USyd Postgrad Work in Progress Talk: Brenton Dart
Rawls’ appeal to history in Political Liberalism

For eight pages in the introduction to Political Liberalism (1993), Rawls  
sketches out the origins of liberal pluralism: the Reformation, the rise of  
the nation-state and the scientific revolution ushered in by the likes of  
Copernicus, Kepler and Newton. Tracing the origins of liberalism to define  
its political obligations is as much a truism as it is a cliché. Yet Rawls’  
sketch of the liberal genealogy does reveal two significant insights into  
the reformulation of the operations of ‘justice as fairness’ within a  
democratic society and how such a conception can be sustained over time.  
This paper is an exploration of the relationship between history and  
political philosophy in which Rawls’ historical story of liberal pluralism  
will be the focal point. I will argue that while Rawls’ theory has received  
criticism for its apparent lack of historical context from scholars such as  
Geuss, his appeal to history in Political Liberalism is highly intuitive  
toward the contextual and contingent circumstances and has important  
implications for normative political philosophy.
When: Tue 12 Mar 2013 16:30 – 18:00 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
Where: Philosophy Common Room, Main Quad, University of Sydney
Calendar: sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au
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