Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 350 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1282821113
,
9781282821118
,
9781400836840
Content:
In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. In his framework, celebrated political writers, including John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green pursue the claim that freedom is best understood as a form of responsible agency or propriety, and they do so by reconciling key moral and philosophical claims with classical and contemporary political theory. Their approach broadly assumes that only those persons who appropriately regulate their conduct can be thought of as free and responsible. At the same time, however, they recognize that such internal forms of self-propriety must be judged within the wider context of social and political life. Kelly shows how the intellectual and practical demands of such a synthesis require these great writers to consider freedom as part of a broader set of arguments about the nature of personhood, the potentially irrational impact of the passions, and the obstinate problems of individual and political judgement. By exploring these relationships, The Propriety of Liberty not only revises the intellectual history of modern political thought, but also sheds light on contemporary debates about freedom and agency.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: The Propriety of Liberty -- The Self at Liberty -- Liberty and Political Theory -- Structure -- CHAPTER ONE: 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency -- Propriety, Prudence and Interpretation -- John Locke and Pierre Nicole: Language, Prudence and the Propriety of the Passions -- Liberty and the Will -- Persons, Passions and Judgement -- Liberty and Personal Identity -- CHAPTER TWO: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation -- Justice -- Lessons in Classics: Politics, Friendship and Despotism -- The Passions of the Soul and the Actions of the Machine -- Moderation and Soulcraft: The Action of Passionate Selfhood -- Legislative Passions and Civil Religion -- Commercial Society and Political Liberty -- CHAPTER THREE: 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory -- Persuasive Agency -- Sympathy and Propriety -- A Passion for Justice: Smith's Political Theory -- The Origins of Government and the Paradoxes of Political Liberty -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization -- Liberty by Example -- Greek Legacies -- Civilization, Civility, Cooperation -- Excursus: Republicanism, Radicalism and Representation -- The Politics of Civilization -- Propriety in Time -- CHAPTER FIVE: Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution -- Character and Action -- Reformation and Revolution -- Enthusiasm and Reform -- Real Freedom -- Political Theology -- The Revolutionary Inheritance -- CHAPTER SIX: Coda: Liberty as Propriety -- Problems of Self-Ownership.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-340) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282820664
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691143137
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691143132
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691143132
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=590827
