Bernard Williams Political Realism Reading List

Book Chapters

In the Beginning Was the Deed (2005)

o Introduction
o Realism and Moralism in Political Theory
o In the Beginning Was the Deed
o Pluralism, Community and Left Wittgensteinianism
o Modernity and the Substance of Ethical Life
o The Liberalism of Fear
o Human Rights and Relativism
o From Freedom to Liberty: The Construction of a Political Value
o The Idea of Equality
o Conflicts of Liberty and Equality
o Toleration, a Political or Moral Question?
o Censorship
o Humanitarianism and the Right to Intervene
o Truth, Politics, and Self-Deception

Moral Luck (1981)

o Politics and Moral Character
o Conflicts of Values
o Rawls and Pascals Wager

Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (2006)

o Subjectivism and Toleration
o Values, Reasons, and the Theory of Persuasion
o Moral Responsibility and Political Freedom
o Tolerating the Intolerable
o Political Philosophy and the Analytical Tradition

Truth and Truthfulness (2010)

o Truthfulness, Liberalism, and Critique

Articles

Democracy and Ideology The Political Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 4 (1961)
Is International Rescue a Moral Issue? Social Research, Vol. 62, No. 1 (1995)

Social Justice Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (1989)

Liberalism and Loss in The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) Eds. Mark Lilla, Ronald

Dworkin, and Robert Silvers

The Politics of Trust in The Geography of Identity (1996) Ed. Patricia Yaeger
Toleration: An Impossible Virtue? in Toleration: An Elusive Virtue (1996) Ed. David
Heyd