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What remains, then, is what Political Philosopher Michael Walzer calls "failed totalitarianism": dead, bureaucratic rule marked by exhaustion and resignation, a hollow ideology, conformity without belief. A shell of the totalitarian idea. Does this mean, then, that the famous distinction between this system and traditional authoritarianism (e.g., nonideological dictatorship like that of Somoza or Marcos) disappears? No, because one crucial difference remains: only one system continues to aspire to totality, to colonizing every nook and cranny of social life...
Cowles Professor of Government Judith N. Shklar, who was joined by Associate Professor Michael J. Sandel and former Harvard professor and famous social critic Michael J. Walzer, told an audience of 200 that the field of political theory revived itself through the study of intellectual history...
...moral philosophy is like the old," Walzer said. He added that, "moral philosophy is an attempt to find ways to refine our moral ideas...
...Walzer said that moral philosophy is linked to social criticism and based on the common concerns of all men. "Social criticism is an educated cousin to common complaint," Walzer said...
...Sandel has been criticized for not providing an alternative set of values and in Walzer's opinion. "It is not absolutely clear what it [a community perspective] means. He's criticizing certain kinds of liberal thought from a perspective he hasn't fully defined...