Liberalism and its critics / edited by Michael J. Sandel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandel, Michael J.

Series:

Readings in social and political theory

Readings in social and political theory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

vi, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1984.

Summary:

Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre

Contents:

Two concepts of liberty / Isaiah Berlin

The right and the good contrasted / John Rawls

Liberalism / Ronald Dworkin

Equality, value, and merit / Friedrich A. Hayek

Moral constraints and distributive justice / Robert Nozick

The virtues, the unity of a human life, and the concept of a tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre

On the obsolescence of the concept of honour / Peter Berger

Justice and the good / Michael J. Sandel

Hegel, history and politics / Charles Taylor

Welfare, membership and need / Michael Walzer

Political education / Michael Oakeshott

The revolutionary tradition and its lost treasure / Hannah Arendt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0814778402 :

OCLC:

11030210