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| Image credit. I chose another painting by Jim Edward to celebrate my approaching another intermediary port of call on my journey towards "Attempts at Liberty." |
Below is the preliminary structure of my chapter on politics, having evolved from Organising the Chapter on Politics (7) — The Complete Gliederung.
In Part One, I examine political conduct as an invariant feature of the human condition. I suppose, 1.4 will form the bulk of the first part, and I still have to experiment with the sequence in which the sub-chapters appear. Perhaps, I should introduce "anthropocentric and sociogenic freedom" only after I have explained the linguistic roots of social individualism / individualistic sociality.
In Part Two, I explicate the various dimensions, ubiquity, and many-faceted presence of politics in a society characterised by (historically unprecedented levels of) liberty, and offer reasons why freedom is primarily a political phenomenon, from which derive other institutions of freedom—personal rights, for instance, or free markets—erroneously considered primary by liberals/libertarians. The concrete nature and shape of these derived forms is highly contingent, as political initiative constantly alters extant determinants of freedom and adds new factors and coefficients which result in unpredictable outcomes.
See also my post on The Point Cloud of Freedom.
Part One
1.0 Freedom most politicised stage in human history
1.1 Definition of politics
1.1.1 Broad Sense
1.1.2 Narrow Sense
1.2 Role of Politics in the Transition from Anthropocentric to Sociogenic Freedom
Politics Seeks a Constructive Alternative to Anarchy, Including Repressive Equilibria
1.2.1 Anthropocentric Freedom
1.2.2 Sociogenic Freedom
1.3 Human versus Animal Politics — see also Prelude 15
1.4 Language, Human Nature, Sociality, and Man as a Political Animal
2.0 Politics before and after Freedom / Transition from Old Politics to New Politics,
Politics in Closed Access Society versus Politics in Open Access Society
2.1 From Closed access Society to Open Access Society
2.2 Individualism
2.3 Modular Man
Part Two
Prelude 6 — Freedom Is a Political Product
Prelude 7 — Freedom as Discovery Process, and Freedom as A Milieu in Which to Create the Society We Wish to Live in. (Also, Sunstein: The Need for Dissent)
Prelude 8 — To Persist, Freedom Needs to Be Re-Created and Reinvented All the Time; The Need for Politics to Give Freedom Meaning and Maintain its Institutions; Constantly Working Out the Mutually Dependent Self-Binding of the State and the Public — A State and a Public Need to Be Organised, Politics Being the Process by Which the Two Are Related to One Another.
Political Culture, Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Need for Dissent
Prelude 9 — Static Notions of Freedom (Inalienable Rights, Principles Generative of a Free Order) versus Freedom by Artifice; Shed Prejudice Against Politics Which Makes Us Economise on Deficiencies and Defects in Human Interaction and Potential-Actualisation — See also second part of Prelude 12.
Prelude 10 — Markets Are Not Self-Sufficient Entities, Their Benignity Depends on Political Preparation and Groundwork; Political versus Economic Scarcity; Politics a Precondition for Dominance of Non-Criminal, Non-Oppressive Forms of Economic Interaction. (See also Prelude 12: Intervention Is Normal and Indispensable Part of the Market Process!!!); (See also Prelude 13).
Prelude 11 — Freedom Is Brought about through the Human Capacity to Act Politically; Man as “das forschende Tier,” as Experimentor, as Ultimate Resource (Julian Simon), Is Pivotal to the Shaping of his Social Environment; To Serve as a Milieu of Powerful Adaptive Capabilities, Freedom Must Be Contingent, Embracing Contradictions and Tensions, and “Fehlentwicklungen,” Which, in Turn, Are Part of the Overall Procedures by which We Effect Correction and Improvement.
Prelude 12 — see above.
Prelude 13 — see above.
Prelude 14 — The Dialectics of the Private and The Public – Freedom Creates the Public Which Creates Privacy, Which Is the Basis for the Public; Politics Is Needed to Negotiate the Borders between the Private and the Public Realms; Privateness and Rights Are Politically Delivered Goods
Prelude 15 — see above.
Political Culture, Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Need for Dissent
Prelude 9 — Static Notions of Freedom (Inalienable Rights, Principles Generative of a Free Order) versus Freedom by Artifice; Shed Prejudice Against Politics Which Makes Us Economise on Deficiencies and Defects in Human Interaction and Potential-Actualisation — See also second part of Prelude 12.
Prelude 10 — Markets Are Not Self-Sufficient Entities, Their Benignity Depends on Political Preparation and Groundwork; Political versus Economic Scarcity; Politics a Precondition for Dominance of Non-Criminal, Non-Oppressive Forms of Economic Interaction. (See also Prelude 12: Intervention Is Normal and Indispensable Part of the Market Process!!!); (See also Prelude 13).
Prelude 11 — Freedom Is Brought about through the Human Capacity to Act Politically; Man as “das forschende Tier,” as Experimentor, as Ultimate Resource (Julian Simon), Is Pivotal to the Shaping of his Social Environment; To Serve as a Milieu of Powerful Adaptive Capabilities, Freedom Must Be Contingent, Embracing Contradictions and Tensions, and “Fehlentwicklungen,” Which, in Turn, Are Part of the Overall Procedures by which We Effect Correction and Improvement.
Prelude 12 — see above.
Prelude 13 — see above.
Prelude 14 — The Dialectics of the Private and The Public – Freedom Creates the Public Which Creates Privacy, Which Is the Basis for the Public; Politics Is Needed to Negotiate the Borders between the Private and the Public Realms; Privateness and Rights Are Politically Delivered Goods
Prelude 15 — see above.
Prelude 16 — Politics to Organise Public Goods and “Keynesian Options”
Prelude 17 — Balancing the Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism
Conclusion, and link to the subsequent chapter on "The Economy": What my analysis of politics in a free world shows is that any major form of mutual influencing among human beings is permeated with politics, behaviour characteristic of political conduct, that is: the seeking of tolerance or active prevalence in society of some of the interests of a person or party of persons. Freedom is the generalisation of this process attained by including ever larger sections of society until the present stage is reached where every adult person is entitled to participate in the shaping of the conditions under which society’s major institutions operate. This gives us pertinent occasion to turn to the economy of a free society and the economic reasoning to be found in it.
Conclusion, and link to the subsequent chapter on "The Economy": What my analysis of politics in a free world shows is that any major form of mutual influencing among human beings is permeated with politics, behaviour characteristic of political conduct, that is: the seeking of tolerance or active prevalence in society of some of the interests of a person or party of persons. Freedom is the generalisation of this process attained by including ever larger sections of society until the present stage is reached where every adult person is entitled to participate in the shaping of the conditions under which society’s major institutions operate. This gives us pertinent occasion to turn to the economy of a free society and the economic reasoning to be found in it.
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