Description |
1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) |
Contents |
Politics, morality, and pluralism -- Liberal morality and political legitimacy -- Political legitimacy and social justice -- Williams's concept of the political -- Legitimacy, stability, and morality -- The politics of morality -- A moral point of view -- Manners and morality -- Morality and conflict -- Moral conflict and political theory -- The morality of politics -- Feminism and multiculturalism -- A defense of culture -- Politics and normative conflict -- The political as moral viewpoint -- Morality and politics: a review -- Political unity and pluralism -- The liberal archipelago -- Loose linkage and political legitimacy -- Political unity and the body politic -- Social justice and political unity -- The bonds of civility -- Nationhood and the liberal polity -- The nature of nationhood -- Pluralism and nationalism -- Civic nationalism and social justice -- Deliberative democracy and the liberal polity -- Liberalism and democracy -- Democracy and deliberative discourse -- The terms of deliberative discourse -- Normative discourse and political legitimacy -- Deliberative democracy and intragroup politics -- Group autonomy and intergroup discourse -- Politics, history, and reason -- Principle and justice in the liberal polity -- Liberal institutions and liberal ideals -- Stopping history -- Rationalism and politics |
Summary |
This book expands the idea of practical liberalism by exploring how a theory of civil association premised upon prudential argument can remain stable through time. The work explores the relation between politics and morality and crafts a theory of social justice that can command the attention of all groups present in a pluralist polity |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Liberalism -- Philosophy
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Pluralism -- Philosophy
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Civil society.
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Political ethics.
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Social justice.
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Social Justice
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Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies.
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Political science & theory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
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Politics and Government.
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Social justice
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Civil society
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Liberalism -- Philosophy
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Political ethics
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Liberalismus
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Politische Ethik
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Zivilgesellschaft
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230106055 |
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0230106056 |
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9781349384518 |
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1349384518 |
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