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  title info:
    title: Moderate conservatism
    sub title: reclaiming the center
  name:
    name part: Kekes, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages)
  abstract: "This book is for those who are alarmed by the current state of politics in America. It is a plea for moderation, a defense of our 300-year old constitutional democracy, a criticism of political extremism, and a warning of the destructive consequences of the politicization of aspects of life that should be left to the discretion of individuals. Quarter of a century ago I published the twin volumes of Against Liberalism and A Case for Conservatism. I thought then that liberals and conservatives had fundamental political disagreements. I entered the fray on the side of conservatives. I now realize that I was mistaken. Liberals and conservatives certainly disagreed, but not fundamentally"--
  table of contents: Cover -- Moderate Conservatism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Simplicities to Complexities -- The Aim of Moderate Conservatism -- Conventional Lives -- Common Decencies -- Shared Modes of Evaluation -- Sources of Complexities -- 3. Perennial Problems -- Overview -- Contingencies -- Conflicts -- Compromises -- 4. The Problem and the Response -- The Problem -- Complex Evaluations -- Personal Attitudes and Our Political System -- Negative Capability -- Toward Reasonable Actions -- 5. The Rule of Law -- The Approach -- Procedural or Substantive? -- Doubts about Priorities -- The Moderately Substantive Requirement -- Moderate Conservatism and the Rule of Law -- 6. Justice -- Justice as Desert -- Why Should We Get What We Deserve? -- Terms of Cooperation -- The Test of Time -- Justice as Desert: For and Against -- 7. Legal and Political Equality -- The Aim -- Contextuality -- Conditionality -- Practicality -- Justification -- 8. Liberty -- The Concept and Its Complexities -- Negative Liberty -- Reasons against Negative Liberty -- Positive Liberty as Autonomy -- The Exclusivist Mistake -- The Secular Faith and Its Problems -- Limited Liberty -- 9. Private Property -- The Reason for It -- Its Importance -- Interest-​Based Justification -- Entitlement-​Based Justification -- Utility-​Based Justification -- Complex Justification -- 10. Last Words -- References -- Index.
  note: John Kekes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Conservatism
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Right and left (Political science)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Conservatisme
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Conservatism
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
  subject:
    topic: Right and left (Political science)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JC573.2.U6 K44 2023
  classification: 320.520973
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      title: Moderate conservatism
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2023
    identifier: (DLC) 2022027379
    identifier: (OCoLC) 1340907116
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220712
    record change date: 20260318164528.6
    record identifier: in00005697326
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng