Political philosophy in Gulliver's travels : shocked by The Just Society / Lloyd W. Robertson.
Robertson, Lloyd W., 1956- author.
2022
PR3727
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Title Political philosophy in Gulliver's travels : shocked by The Just Society / Lloyd W. Robertson.
Author Robertson, Lloyd W., 1956- author.
ISBN 9783030988531 (electronic bk.)
3030988538 (electronic bk.)
9783030988524
303098852X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98853-1
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-98853-1 doi
Call Number PR3727
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.509
Summary This book analyzes Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swifts writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and Ireland. Robertson claims by contrast that Gullivers Travels is fundamentally a book about the "ancients" (e.g. Plato, Aristotle), and the "moderns" (science and technology), and their contrasting views about the human condition. The claim that the Travels is "a kind of prolegomena" to political philosophy leaves open the possibility that it does not achieve, or seek to achieve, a fusion of various teachings but rather uses the device of alien societies to point us to uncomfortable aspects of political philosophys larger questions we are prone to ignore. Swift, Robertson argues, draws our attention to some version of the classical republic, as idealized in Aristotles political writings and in Platos Republic, as opposed to a modern regime which, at its best or most intellectual, emphasizes modern science and technology in combination as a way to improve the human condition. Lloyd W. Robertson is a former lecturer in political science at St. Thomas University in Canada, among other post-secondary institutions.
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Little People and Big People
Chapter 3. Nameless Moderns: Science, Miracles and Faith
Chapter 4. A Realistic Utopia, and Human Passions
Chapter 5. Heroic Ancients
Chapter 6. Rational Horses and Humans
Chapter 7. European Imperialism and The Bible
Chapter 8. What we can learn.

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