Hilliard Aronovitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1289015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilliard Aronovitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilliard |
| FAMILY NAME | Aronovitch |
| SIGNATURE | ARONOVITCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Liberals Can Explain the Moral Errors of Past Eras and Answer Bernard Williams
Interpreting Weber’s Ideal-Types
Weber’s notion of ideal-types has most frequently been rejected as incoherent or overly abstract. This article maintains that it insightfully addresses explanatory issues in social science by encompassing the agents’ subjective understanding and the need for theorists to comprehend, explain, and evaluate it. As such, ideal-types are not versions of established models in natural science or economics. Further keys are seeing ideal-types as blending…
The Role of Emotions in the Rule of Law
Seceding The Canadian Way
The Canadian Supreme Court's 1998 decision on whether Quebec has a right to secede was initially lauded for granting both the federal government and secessionists their due. The Court found there to be an implicit Constitutional right for Quebec to secede, but by negotiation of the terms, not one-sided action. It thus deemed secession both a legal and a political phenomenon. This paper critically reassesses the decision in light especially of rec…
Trudeau or Taylor? The Central Question
Juxtaposing Pierre Trudeau and Charles Taylor allows for assessing not simply an epoch in Canadian political life but more fundamentally two contrasting visions of modern government and society. The key is not in the usual contrasts: liberalism versus communitarianism or individual rights versus collective rights; but in the opposition between Trudeau’s centralized and Taylor’s decentralized vision of federalism. What emerges from analyzing that …
We the People
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Nationalism in Theory and Reality
Analogical Argument, Liberalism, and the Avoidance of Relativism: Reply to Lessnoff
The Political Importance of Analogical Argument
Is there a form of reasoning somehow specially suited to political philosophy and political life? I contend that for a variety of reasons analogical argument is eminently apt for politics. Although the significance of analogical reasoning for law has been largely recognized, its similar suitability for morality and politics has mostly been ignored, though insights from Hampshire and others point the way. An eventual implication of my argument is …
In Defence of Modernity
Is the endeavour to probe the meaning of modernity other than a form of self-obsession, a kind of collective and conceptual narcissism, characteristic of the perhaps peculiarly modern preoccupation with abstract notions and inwardness? And whatever the motivation and origin, is the endeavour likely to issue in something better than doubtful or empty pronouncements, true to the extent that they are platitudes and false or obscure for the rest? Enc…
No End of Ideology
Since its coinage in the eighteenth century, the concept of ideology has been recurrently invoked as a tool of analysis, a term of abuse, or both together. The concept is central to the theories of Marx, Mannheim, and others, and the whole subject of the sociology of knowledge is an elaboration upon it. But just what the concept is meant to convey is normally so unclear or controversial, even question-begging, that it is natural to want to dispen…
Rational Motivation
Interpreting Weber’s Ideal-Types
Weber’s notion of ideal-types has most frequently been rejected as incoherent or overly abstract. This article maintains that it insightfully addresses explanatory issues in social science by encompassing the agents’ subjective understanding and the need for theorists to comprehend, explain, and evaluate it. As such, ideal-types are not versions of established models in natural science or economics. Further keys are seeing ideal-types as blending…
The Political Importance of Analogical Argument
Is there a form of reasoning somehow specially suited to political philosophy and political life? I contend that for a variety of reasons analogical argument is eminently apt for politics. Although the significance of analogical reasoning for law has been largely recognized, its similar suitability for morality and politics has mostly been ignored, though insights from Hampshire and others point the way. An eventual implication of my argument is …
Trudeau or Taylor? The Central Question
Juxtaposing Pierre Trudeau and Charles Taylor allows for assessing not simply an epoch in Canadian political life but more fundamentally two contrasting visions of modern government and society. The key is not in the usual contrasts: liberalism versus communitarianism or individual rights versus collective rights; but in the opposition between Trudeau’s centralized and Taylor’s decentralized vision of federalism. What emerges from analyzing that …
Rational Motivation
Rational Motivation
No End of Ideology
Since its coinage in the eighteenth century, the concept of ideology has been recurrently invoked as a tool of analysis, a term of abuse, or both together. The concept is central to the theories of Marx, Mannheim, and others, and the whole subject of the sociology of knowledge is an elaboration upon it. But just what the concept is meant to convey is normally so unclear or controversial, even question-begging, that it is natural to want to dispen…
In Defence of Modernity
Is the endeavour to probe the meaning of modernity other than a form of self-obsession, a kind of collective and conceptual narcissism, characteristic of the perhaps peculiarly modern preoccupation with abstract notions and inwardness? And whatever the motivation and origin, is the endeavour likely to issue in something better than doubtful or empty pronouncements, true to the extent that they are platitudes and false or obscure for the rest? Enc…
Analogical Argument, Liberalism, and the Avoidance of Relativism: Reply to Lessnoff
The Political Importance of Analogical Argument
Is there a form of reasoning somehow specially suited to political philosophy and political life? I contend that for a variety of reasons analogical argument is eminently apt for politics. Although the significance of analogical reasoning for law has been largely recognized, its similar suitability for morality and politics has mostly been ignored, though insights from Hampshire and others point the way. An eventual implication of my argument is …
Nationalism in Theory and Reality
Trudeau or Taylor? The Central Question
Juxtaposing Pierre Trudeau and Charles Taylor allows for assessing not simply an epoch in Canadian political life but more fundamentally two contrasting visions of modern government and society. The key is not in the usual contrasts: liberalism versus communitarianism or individual rights versus collective rights; but in the opposition between Trudeau’s centralized and Taylor’s decentralized vision of federalism. What emerges from analyzing that …
We the People
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Seceding The Canadian Way
The Canadian Supreme Court's 1998 decision on whether Quebec has a right to secede was initially lauded for granting both the federal government and secessionists their due. The Court found there to be an implicit Constitutional right for Quebec to secede, but by negotiation of the terms, not one-sided action. It thus deemed secession both a legal and a political phenomenon. This paper critically reassesses the decision in light especially of rec…
The Role of Emotions in the Rule of Law
Interpreting Weber’s Ideal-Types
Weber’s notion of ideal-types has most frequently been rejected as incoherent or overly abstract. This article maintains that it insightfully addresses explanatory issues in social science by encompassing the agents’ subjective understanding and the need for theorists to comprehend, explain, and evaluate it. As such, ideal-types are not versions of established models in natural science or economics. Further keys are seeing ideal-types as blending…
How Liberals Can Explain the Moral Errors of Past Eras and Answer Bernard Williams
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