Toward a Liberalism.
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 r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1501726277 9781501726279 |