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Toward a Liberalism Richard E. Flathman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flathman, Richard E.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Series:
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural pluralism.
- Individualism.
- Authority.
- Liberalism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- The late Richard Flathman (1934-2015) was the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University. Known for his influential application of the methods of analytic philosophy to questions in political science, he was the author of many books, including Pluralism and Liberal Democracy, Reflections of a Would-Be Anarchist: Ideals and Institutions of Liberalism, and Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501727825
- 1501727826
- 9780801422430
- 0801422434
- 9781501726279
- 1501726277
- OCLC:
- 1057688765
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