Liberal purposes : goods, virtues, and diversity in the liberal state / William A. Galston.
This book is a major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist. It challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman who believe that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and individu...
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Cambridge University Press,
1991.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: LIBERALISM AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Introduction
- Peirce's cable and Plato's cave: objectivity and contemporary political philosophy
- Contemporary critics of liberalism
- PART II: LIBERALISM AND NEUTRALITY: Liberalism and the neutral state
- Liberalism and the neutral public discourse
- Moral personality and liberal theory
- Pluralism and social unity
- PART III: LIBERALISM WITHOUT NEUTRALITY: Liberal goods
- Liberal justice
- Liberal virtues
- PART IV: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE IN THE LIBERAL STATE: Civic education
- Public virtue and religion
- Partisanship and inclusion.