Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Release : 2019-05-03
Genre : Liberalism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 422/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism by : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Download or read book Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism written by Daniel A. Dombrowski. This book was released on 2019-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.