Organising the Chapter on Politics (7) — The Complete Gliederung

Image credit. A great artist, portraying a great city: Edinburgh, an important place for liberty, home to David Hume and Adam Smith (well, more or less), one of the hotbeds of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Continued from here.


This is how I propose to round off the Gliederung:

7.       Markets and Politics (also here)

8.       Privacy 

9.       Rights

10.     Between Faith and Scepticism

11.     Conclusion

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The Full Gliederung:

1.       What Is Politics?

1.1     Politics — Wider Sense

1.2     Politics — Narrower Sense

1.3     Politics in General - Part of the Human Condition

2.       Politics under Conditions of Freedom

2.1     Freedom — Adapting to the Individualistic Age

2.2     Rise of Individualism

2.3     Politics and the State — Adaptations to the Individualistic Age

2.3.1  The New Social Persona - The Autonomous Individual as a State-provided Public Good

3.       The Politics of Public Goods

3.1     Political Participation - Organising the Permanent Redrafting of the Social Contract

3.2     Privatising Law and Life — The Individualistic State as Radical Privatiser

3.3     Disencumbering Justice by Auxilliary Forms of Legitimacy

4.       Political Culture in a Free Society

4.1     Epistemological Functions of Freedom and Politics - Politics as a Discovery Process

4.2     Science and Freedom — "Moral Images" à la Putnam - Open-ended, Incomplete and Changing

4.3     Culture-Questioning and Culture-Shaping in Civil Society

4.4     Politics as Part of the Division of Labour in a Free Society

4.5     Politics and Poppers World 3

4.6     The Long Road from Anthropocentric Freedom to Sociogenic Freedom

4.7     The System of Sociogenic Freedom — Politics - Improving State Technologies

 

5.        Dynamic Conditions of Politics in a Free Society

5.1      Myths Denigrating Politics

5.2      The SO of Rationally Adapting to SO - The Evolution of Skills of Interference

5.3      Politics a Means of Economising on Vice and Detriment (especially Predation)

5.4      Politics — Leveraging 'The Ultimate Resource'

5.5      'The Political Habitus' — It Is Natural for Modular Man to Act Politically

6.       Forms of Political Participation in a Free Society

6.1     The Presumption of Democratic Participation - the Taboo against Corruption

6.2     Participation within the Political Infrastructure

6.3     Subtler Forms of Participation within the Political Infrastructure

6.4     Participation outside the Political Infrastructure

7.       Markets and Politics (also here)

8.       Privacy 

9.       Rights

10.     Between Faith and Scepticism

11.     Conclusion

11.1   Results and Purpose of Freedom

11.2   Freedom as a Dynamic Equilibrating Order

11.3   Freedom and Democracy

11.4   Freedom as Choice, Empowerment, and Improved Adaptation 

11.5   Value-based Facts  — The Ubiquity of Values

11.6   The Wisdom of Freedom and Democracy