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We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country's most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls's wake.
Nelson starts by noting that today's liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism--the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier "liberal" position and shows that Rawls's philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
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打通思想史（神正論）和當代政治理論任督二脈的傑作。從羅爾斯本科論文入手，析清羅爾斯正義論背後的“反伯拉糾主義”（anti-Palegianism）底色，進而呈現齣當代自由主義在分配正義方麵的根本睏境。【挑剔如Samuel Moyn也不得不承認，“Nelson在其所涉足的每一個領域都有新東西可講”，能翻譯這麼一位大神的著作也真是自己的一份榮幸瞭】
評分##不怎麼認同Nelson的論證，但是他讓我弄清楚瞭羅爾斯對我最根本的吸引力在哪裏。
評分##既能寫早期近代思想史（聯係古希臘源流），又能寫美國建國思想史，現在還展示瞭和當代羅爾斯派鬥智的筆力，這位老哥果真是全能型的奇纔。但目前為止還沒有看齣他提齣瞭什麼建構性的方案。比如這本書，講瞭很多不同層次的問題，批判羅爾斯egalitarianism也很到位，但最終也不太清楚他到底有什麼積極建議。最後兩麵似乎錶達瞭他的一種共和主義民主理論的主張：民主代錶製原則優先於分配正義原則？這對當代自由派意味著一條什麼樣的齣路呢？
評分 評分##對羅爾斯觀點的神學解讀，並指齣瞭羅爾斯同傳統自由主義思想之間的內在矛盾，自由主義思想肯定人的尊嚴、自主和能動，在這個意義上，如果完全反對應得，認為我們所取得的一切功績都是建立在偶然的基礎上，因此我們不應受到任何優待，無疑是秉持瞭一種決定論的觀點，也是同自由主義的理論前提相矛盾的。
評分打通思想史（神正論）和當代政治理論任督二脈的傑作。從羅爾斯本科論文入手，析清羅爾斯正義論背後的“反伯拉糾主義”（anti-Palegianism）底色，進而呈現齣當代自由主義在分配正義方麵的根本睏境。【挑剔如Samuel Moyn也不得不承認，“Nelson在其所涉足的每一個領域都有新東西可講”，能翻譯這麼一位大神的著作也真是自己的一份榮幸瞭】
評分 評分##談representation的部分還有點意思
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