it was closely modeled on US institutions and political culture/おぼっちゃまおじょうちゃまリベラル

ロールズ本の著者のインタビュー。普遍的な理論を戦後アメリカの特殊な思想として地理的・歴史的に相対化したいというモチーフを駆動するのは中道リベラルに対する左派の不満。https://t.co/I5dmNMepmL

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) October 5, 2020

おもしろいインタビュー　

economic inequalities must maximally benefit the least advantaged

とあわせて読むと興味深い

　マルクス主義者からすると、すべては歴史の中で意味をもつから、歴史を超えた普遍的理論 と言われても困るんだろうね。他方リベラルからすると、カントだってミルだって歴史的な制限はあるにせよ、その理論の中に普遍的な論理はあるだろう、といいたいところじゃないかな。

Many philosophical liberals started off with the assumption that we can and should reform the status quo, but had a rosy idea of what that status quo was, and saw reform as something that would require slow adaptation. They failed to recognize the severity of injustices, or to adapt (and to modify their theory of change) when things got worse.

ｗｗｗ

リベラルってのはわりにおぼっちゃまお嬢ちゃまが多いから、現実の悲惨さを嘗め尽くしていないし、不正の現実の深刻さを甘くみている。

It’s also slippery in other ways: although it was designed to be as general and universal as possible, it was closely modeled on US institutions and political culture. Many aspects of American political and economic life were smuggled into the theory. As a result, it embodies a mix of the parochial and the universal — a mix that was itself a signal feature of postwar liberalism in the United States.

英米の特殊の事情、制度を普遍的のものとして押し付けようとするのは、リベラルに限らず、多くの英米人がやりがちな過ちだろうね。

Yet that theory — and Rawls’s account of civil disobedience — was filled with constraints, which meant that in many situations, lawbreaking would be deemed unjustifiable. The most striking condition he placed on the justifiability of civil disobedience was that it was justified when legal and political rights were violated, but not when economic rights were infringed, or as part of protests at unjust economic situations (against poverty, say, or a workplace injustice).

法的、政治的、経済的不正に対して 市民的不服従が正当化できるか？

 経済的不正に対する不服従が許されるとしても、その要件の定式化がどうなるかだね。

But, equally, what is missing in liberal political theories is also instructive — particularly their lack of a theory of strategy and change, their lack of an account of how ideas become political forces. And there is also much to be said for reading liberal philosophy to understand where lines of antagonism should be drawn — where to object, what to concede, and who to fight.

最終目的地はわかったとしても、行き方がわからないとなんにもならない。

これは別にリベラルだけじゃなく、非武装平和主義者たちに いえるだろうね。

参照

not least

特に、とりわけ

Quietism may refer to:

Quietism (Christian philosophy), a 17th-century Christian philosophy condemned as heresy by the Roman Catholic Church

Quaker Quietism

Quietism (philosophy), the view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one

Political quietism, the withdrawal from political affairs