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1 online resource. |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
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Liberalism.
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Authority.
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Individualism.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Free enterprise.
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Libéralisme.
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Autorité.
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Diversité culturelle.
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liberalism.
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Free enterprise
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Authority
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Cultural pluralism
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Individualism
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Liberalism
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Liberalisme.
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Gezag.
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Individualisme.
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Plurale samenleving.
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| Indexed Term |
Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Toward a liberalism-- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989 0801495369 (pbk. : alk. paper) (DLC) 88047922 |
| ISBN |
0801495369 pbk. : alk. paper |
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0801422434 hard : alk. paper |
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9781501726286 ebook |
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1501726285 |
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1501726277 (electronic bk.) |
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9781501726279 (electronic bk.) |
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9780801495366 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780801422430 (hard ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000062005104 |
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