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Liberating Judgment Fanatics Skeptics and John Locke’s Politics of Probability 1st Edition by Douglas John Casson ISBN 0691144745 978-0691144740

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Author(s): Douglas John Casson
ISBN(s): 9781400836888, 1400836883
Edition: Course Book
File Details: PDF, 4.09 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0691144745

ISBN 13: 978-0691144740 

Author: Douglas John Casson

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. The book argues that the work of John Locke instills a civic judgment that avoids the excesses of corrosive skepticism and dogmatic fanaticism, which lead to either political acquiescence or irresolvable conflict. Locke changes the way political power is assessed by replacing deteriorating vocabularies of legitimacy with a new language of justification informed by a conception of probability. For Locke, the coherence and viability of liberal self-government rests not on unassailable principles or institutions, but on the capacity of citizens to embrace probable judgment.

The book explores the breakdown of the medieval understanding of knowledge and opinion, and considers how Montaigne’s skepticism and Descartes’ rationalism–interconnected responses to the crisis–involved a pragmatic submission to absolute rule. Locke endorses this response early on, but moves away from it when he encounters a notion of reasonableness based on probable judgment. In his mature writings, Locke instructs his readers to govern their faculties and intellectual yearnings in accordance with this new standard as well as a vocabulary of justification that might cultivate a self-government of free and equal individuals. The success of Locke’s arguments depends upon citizens’ willingness to take up the labor of judgment in situations where absolute certainty cannot be achieved.

Table of contents:

Chapter I: Unsettling Judgment: Knowledge, Belief, and the Crisis of Authority

  • Certain Knowledge and Probable Belief

  • Unsettling Knowledge

  • Unsettling Belief

Chapter II: Abandoning Judgment: Montaignian Skeptics and Cartesian Fanatics

  • Montaigne and the Politics of Skepticism

  • Descartes and the Rationalist Dream

  • Young Locke as Skeptic and Absolutist

Chapter III: Reworking Reasonableness: The Authoritative Testimony of Nature

  • The Transformation of a Skeptic

  • Precursors to Lockean Reasonableness

  • From Lecture Halls to Laboratories

Chapter IV: Forming Judgment: The Transformation of Knowledge and Belief

  • Locke’s Political Pedagogy

  • Fanatics and Philosophizers

  • Defining and Redefining Knowledge and Belief

Chapter V: Liberating Judgment: Freedom, Happiness, and the Reasonable Self

  • Unrestrained and Restrained Freedoms

  • The Pursuit of True and Solid Happiness

  • The Formation of the Reasonable Self

Chapter VI: Enacting Judgment: Dismantling the Divine Certainty of Sir Robert Filmer

  • Preaching Patriarcha from the Pulpit

  • Probable Judgment and the Authority of Scripture

  • The Slavishness of Systems

Chapter VII: Authorizing Judgment: Consensual Government and the Politics of Probability

  • The State of Nature as a Realm of Virtue and Convenience

  • From Moral Clarity to Epistemological Confusion

  • Entrusting Judgment to a Shared Authority

  • Prerogative, Public Good, and the Judgment of the People

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