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The propriety of liberty : persons, passions and judgement in modern political thought / Duncan Kelly.
LIBRA JC585 .K39 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Duncan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- Liberty--History.
- History.
- Political science--History.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 350 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency 20
- Propriety, Prudence and Interpretation 21
- John Locke and Pierre Nicole: Language, Prudence and the Propriety of the Passions 24
- Liberty and the Will 41
- Persons, Passions and Judgement 46
- Liberty and Personal Identity 53
- Chapter 2 Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation 59
- Justice 61
- Lessons in Classics: Politics, Friendship and Despotism 68
- The Passions of the Soul and the Actions of the Machine 82
- Moderation and Soulcraft: The Action of PassionateSelfhood 88
- Legislative Passions and Civil Religion 94
- Commercial Society and Political Liberty 105
- Chapter 3 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory 117
- Persuasive Agency 119
- Sympathy and Propriety 128
- A Passion for Justice: Smith's Political Theory 141
- The Origins of Government and the Paradoxes of Political Liberty 159
- Conclusions 167
- Chapter 4 Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization 173
- Liberty by Example 175
- Greek Legacies 186
- Civilization, Civility, Cooperation 194
- Excursus: Republicanism, Radicalism and Representation 204
- The Politics of Civilization 210
- Propriety in Time 218
- Chapter 5 Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution 223
- Character and Action 226
- Reformation and Revolution 234
- Enthusiasm and Reform 241
- Real freedom 244
- Political Theology 249
- The Revolutionary Inheritance 255
- Chapter 6 Coda: Liberty as Propriety 259
- Problems of Self-Ownership 261
- Responsible Agency 269
- State Propriety 273.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691143132
- 0691143137
- OCLC:
- 613423170
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