UID:
almafu_9960119387002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-17246-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
Content:
This book is a major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist. It challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman who believe that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and individual conceptions of what is good or valuable. Professor Galston argues that the modern liberal state is committed to a distinctive conception of the human good, and to that end has developed characteristic institutions and practices - representative governments, diverse societies, market economies, and zones of private action - in the pursuit of specific public purposes that give unity to the liberal state. These purposes guide liberal public policy, shape liberal justice, require the practice of liberal virtues, and rest on a liberal public culture. Consequently the diversity characteristic of liberal societies is limited by their institutional, personal, and cultural preconditions.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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PART I: LIBERALISM AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Introduction -- Peirce's cable and Plato's cave: objectivity and contemporary political philosophy -- Contemporary critics of liberalism -- PART II: LIBERALISM AND NEUTRALITY: Liberalism and the neutral state -- Liberalism and the neutral public discourse -- Moral personality and liberal theory -- Pluralism and social unity -- PART III: LIBERALISM WITHOUT NEUTRALITY: Liberal goods -- Liberal justice -- Liberal virtues -- PART IV: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE IN THE LIBERAL STATE: Civic education -- Public virtue and religion -- Partisanship and inclusion.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-42250-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-41036-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172462
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