The Political Theory Review

Episode 102: Joshua Cherniss - Liberalism in Dark Times

May 23, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
The History of Political Thought and Political Ethics
02:45 • 5min
3
The Ruthlessness of Political Actors, a Challenge to Liberals
07:53 • 2min
4
Is It Morally Impossible to Write Roughshod Over Limits?
10:17 • 5min
5
Those Are Great Examples From This Era.
15:10 • 2min
6
Was It Lukas, or Was It Stalinism?
17:23 • 2min
7
Is There a Strong Connection Between Political Ruthlessness and Imperialism?
19:46 • 5min
8
The Liberal Response to the Liberal Challenge of Moralized Ruthlessness
24:50 • 2min
9
Tempered Liberalism Responds to the Challenges of the World
26:26 • 5min
10
Is There a Lock in Madisonian Liberalism?
31:02 • 2min
11
The Importance of Character Formation in the 20th Century
33:04 • 5min
12
What's the Significance of Max Weber?
38:33 • 3min
13
What Is the Goal of Politics?
41:21 • 5min
14
The Ethics of Responsibility
46:13 • 3min
15
Weber's Definition of Politics Is Morally Neutral
49:40 • 3min
16
The Institutional and the Ethical Dimension of Politics
52:20 • 5min
17
Veybrol and the German Tradition
57:14 • 2min
18
Veybrol and Camus and the Influence of Nietzsche in the Book
59:41 • 4min
19
The Limits of Political Action
01:03:25 • 2min
20
Camus's Early Philosophy Absurdism
01:05:36 • 2min
21
I Think There Is More to Honor in Humanity Than to Despise
01:07:53 • 4min
22
Isaiah Berlin and Raymond Aron and Reinhold Nieber
01:12:06 • 2min
23
Are You Trying to Strike a Balance Between Weber and Camus?
01:14:09 • 4min
24
Camus and Berlin's Approach to Politics
01:18:22 • 5min
25
Is There a Relevance of These Thinkers for the Present?
01:23:16 • 2min
26
Liberals and Anti-Liberals - Part of What These Thinkers Can Help Sensitize Us To
01:25:26 • 4min
27
The Importance of a Certain Kind of Liberal Political Leadership
01:29:32 • 4min