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Author Flathman, Richard E., author

Title Toward a liberalism-- / Richard E. Flathman
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Series Cornell paperbacks
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Theory and Practice, Skepticism and Liberalism -- 2 Liberalism and Authority -- 3 Citizenship and Authority: A Chastened View of Citizenship -- 4 Liberalism and the Human Good of Freedom -- 5 Moderating Rights -- 6 The Theory of Rights and the Practice of Abortion -- 7 Egalitarian Blood and Skeptical Turnips -- Index
Summary In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable relationship between liberalism and authority, he advances a theory of democratic citizenship tempered by appreciation of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority. Flathman examines the relationship of individual rights to freedom on one hand and to authority and power on the other, rejecting the quest for a single homogenous and authoritative liberal theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Liberalism.
Authority.
Individualism.
Cultural pluralism.
Free enterprise.
liberalism.
Free enterprise.
Authority.
Cultural pluralism.
Individualism.
Liberalism.
Liberalisme.
Gezag.
Individualisme.
Plurale samenleving.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019725639
ISBN 9781501726286
1501726285
1501726277
9781501726279