No doubt there must be divisions among you so that the ones who are in the right may be clearly seen.) International Standard Version Of course, there must be factions among you to show which of you are genuine! Literal Standard Version for it is also necessary for sects to be among you, that those approved may become visible among you;
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Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you. There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
1) Factions can be compared to the modern day lobby group; or as groups of people with a common self-interest. These groups are only involved for…show more content…
For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you. For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you. For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
Justice introduces a distinction between groups that seek it and those who do not, which is the basis for a distinction between party and faction. In Federalist 10 James Madison defines a faction clearly but not quite as simply unjust.
For there must also be factions among you, so that those who are approved may become evident among you.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
There must, indeed, be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
Of course, there must be factions among you to show which of you are genuine!
For there must also be factions among you, so that the genuine may become apparent among you.
For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.
for [doubtless] there have to be factions among you, so that those who are of approved character may be clearly recognized among you.
Augustine's rule is a golden rule as regards questions of heresy and catholicity: "In doubtful questions , liberty; in essentials , unity ; in all things , charity.". that … approved may be made manifest—through the disapproved (reprobates) becoming manifested (Lu 2:35; 1Jo 2:19). Matthew Poole's Commentary.
May be made manifest - May be known; recognized; seen. The effect of divisions and separations would be to show who were the friends of order, and peace, and truth.
1 Corinthians 11:19. Καὶ αἱρέσεις, also heresies) Schismsand heresiesare here applied to one thing; nor is the alsointended to make a distinction; but this is its meaning: not only many good things, not merely small stumbling-blocks, 1 Corinthians 8:9, are found among you, but there must be also heresies, or different opinions and schisms, which generally arise out of them. Now there is at once both necessity for these and it is profitable to the godly, where men less approvedare mixed up with them. A schism is a mutual separation; heresy is the separation of one party from the unity of the Church, in regard either to faith, or worship.—οἱ δόκιμοι, those approved) Therefore there were at least some such persons among them. A conciliatory (ἀστεῖος) mode of expression; for what he really meant to say, was, that those less approvedshould be openly manifested.
In Federalist 10 James Madison defines a faction clearly but not quite as simply unjust. He calls it “a number of citizens . . . adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community,” thus distinguishing, but also combining, individual rights and the common good.
In political science the preferences considered would include specific policies (on late-term abortion, for example) as well as general principles (pro-life or choice). But in politics it is strange to describe such positions as mere preferences, for unlike vanilla and chocolate, they oppose each other. It is as if vanilla lovers wanted to do away with chocolate instead of merely preferring it while still liking or tolerating another choice. Ideas called “preferences” are being harmonized, and the conflicts among them minimized, as if both could survive together in a society understood as a market. You have yours, I have mine, and we don’t have to fight or even dispute over which is better. Neither preference wants to prevail over the other because in principle they do not exclude the other. If a preference disappears, this is because it has been abandoned, like the horse and carriage, and there is no demand for it.
One can discover behaviorally that people prefer one thing or taste to another, as for example vanilla to chocolate, even though one cannot say scientifically that either of those common tastes is good in itself . One can know better without knowing good. Knowledge of preferences for one thing over another substitutes for knowledge of the thing’s worth or utility. Objectivity comes out of subjectivity, just as with Machiavelli’s effectual truth but without his cynical disparagement of people’s opinions. By claiming less an economist can claim more, for he has set aside the need to show that economics is useful, in the way that Machiavelli would say that his effectual truth is truly useful and the prince’s acquisitions truly glorious. For the economist, it is more surely useful to know what people hold to be useful than whether they really have a grasp on something useful.
A partisan contention wants to prevail over its opposite, but not merely to prevail in the sense of winning a game, winning once at the end of the game. It wants to rule the whole society, including its opponent, and it wants to do so by imposing its rule, which means its set of rules.
Political ideas disappear too, for example socialism, but that happens because it has lost the fight to prevail, not because it has harmlessly gone out of fashion. “Voters’ preferences” are not really preferences in the non-technical or non-scientific (which I am tempted to call the true) sense of the word; they are contentions not merely in favor of one’s own but also, and mainly, against another’s contentions—your opponent’s. Vanilla and chocolate lovers do not disapprove of, or even dislike, each other, but Democrats and Republicans do. A preference does not need an argument, but a partisan contention does need one, indeed consists in one.
The difference between politics and a game is that politics is about the common good and concerns justice, whereas winning a game is victory for one’s own self or team. Justice introduces a distinction between groups that seek it and those who do not, which is the basis for a distinction between party and faction.
Of course parties will have to compromise with their opponents and cede to them when they lose, in accordance with the system of party government, yet this is not what they want or claim. There is another difference between partisan ideas and preferences, which is that the former have to make viable arguments.
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