TY - JOUR
T1 - Cavell and Rawls on the Conversation of Justice
T2 - Moral versus Political Perfectionism
AU - Patton, Paul
N1 - Open Journal Systems (OJS) - an open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A primary concern of Stanley Cavell’s Carus Lectures is to respond to the question posed in the first sentence of the Introduction: “Is Moral Perfectionism inherently elitist?” By elitist, he means undemocratic. While there are senses in which he would not want to deny that Moral Perfectionism is elitist, and while he admits that there are perfectionisms that do not require democracy, neither of these are Cavell’s concern. Rather, he wants to showcase his preferred version of perfectionism, variously named Moral, Emersonian and Nietzschean perfectionism.
AB - A primary concern of Stanley Cavell’s Carus Lectures is to respond to the question posed in the first sentence of the Introduction: “Is Moral Perfectionism inherently elitist?” By elitist, he means undemocratic. While there are senses in which he would not want to deny that Moral Perfectionism is elitist, and while he admits that there are perfectionisms that do not require democracy, neither of these are Cavell’s concern. Rather, he wants to showcase his preferred version of perfectionism, variously named Moral, Emersonian and Nietzschean perfectionism.
U2 - 10.18192/cjcs.v0i2.1108
DO - 10.18192/cjcs.v0i2.1108
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 54
EP - 74
JO - Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
JF - Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
ER -