Critical Moral Liberalism

Author : Jeffrey H. Reiman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847683141

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Critical Moral Liberalism by Jeffrey H. Reiman Pdf

In this important book, Jeffrey Reiman responds to recent assaults on liberal theory by proposing a 'critical moral liberalism.' It is liberal in maintaining the emphasis of classical liberalism on individual freedom, moral in adhering to a distinctive vision of the good life rather than professing neutrality, and critical in taking seriously the objection-raised by feminists and Marxists, among others-that liberal theories often serve as ideological cover for oppression of one group by others. Critical moral liberalism has a conception of ideology, and resources for testing the suspicion that arrangements that look free are really oppressive. Reiman sets forth the basic arguments for the liberal moral obligation to maximize people's ability to govern their own lives, and for the conception of the good life that goes with this. He considers and answers objections to the liberal project, and defends liberal conceptions of privacy, moral virtue, economic justice, and Constitutional interpretation. Reiman then takes up specific policy issues, among them abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, moral education, capital punishment, and threats to privacy from modern information technology. Critical Moral Liberalism will be of interest to scholars and students of ethics, social and political philosophy, political theory, and public policy.

Author : Courtney Jung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521878764

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The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics by Courtney Jung Pdf

Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of birth but a political achievement that offers a new voice to many of the world's poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims rests not on the existence of cultural differences, or identity, but on the history of exclusion and selective inclusion that constitutes indigenous identity. As a result, the book shows that privatizing or protecting such groups is a mistake and develops a theory of critical liberalism that commits democratic government to active engagement with the claims of culture. This book will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology studying multiculturalism and the politics of culture.

Author : R. Bruce Douglass,Gerald M. Mara,Henry S. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000704747

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Liberalism and the Good by R. Bruce Douglass,Gerald M. Mara,Henry S. Richardson Pdf

First published in 1990. Liberalism and the Good is a collection of critical essays by an inter-disciplinary group of American and English scholars that seeks to address the long-standing problem of the good in light of the most recent developments in liberal theory. With contributions from both liberal apologists and critics who pursue arguments informed by sources as disparate as Nietzsche and Aristotle, it breaks fresh ground in a number of different directions and offers proposals for the future of the discussion.

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 019924300X

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Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality by Robert P. George Pdf

A number of leading defenders of natural law and liberalism offer frank and lively exchanges touching upon critical issues surrounding contemporary moral and political theory.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Justice
ISBN : 0415229995

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John Rawls: Political liberalism and the law of peoples by John Rawls Pdf

Author : Jonathan Haidt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307455772

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The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

Author : Dwight R. Boyd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463003193

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Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism by Dwight R. Boyd Pdf

Integrating scholarly essays and personal reflections, Becoming of Two Minds chronicles a unique philosophical odyssey, a developmental journey of coming to recognize the inadequacy of liberalism in the face of some egregious social problems such as racism, while also appreciating its strengths. A Personal Prologue describing the main intellectual influences on the author locates the origins of the journey and functions as a backdrop for its interpretation. Fifteen chronologically organized essays, divided into three parts, identify significant positions of contrast between the two minds, establishing the direction of the journey and indications of change. Essays in Part I reflect early allegiance to liberalism and explore its core ideas as they should be interpreted to guide moral education. Those in Part II express disaffection with that allegiance, taking a distinctly critical stance toward liberalism. Part III then consists of essays that represent attempts to come to terms with the becoming of two minds exemplified in the tension between the ideas about liberalism expressed in Parts I and II. A Personal Preface also introduces each of the fifteen essays. These Prefaces address questions such as why the problem of the essay was chosen, why it was approached in a particular way, and what place the essay assumes in the direction the author’s journey takes.

Author : Samuel Scheffler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191037313

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Boundaries and Allegiances by Samuel Scheffler Pdf

This book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy. The essays explore the capacity of liberal thought, and of the moral traditions on which it draws, to accommodate a variety of challenges posed by the changing circumstances of the modern world. The essays consider how, in an era of rapid globalization, when people's lives are structured by social arrangements and institutions of ever increasing size, complexity, and scope, we can best conceive of the responsibilities of individual agents and the normative significance of people's diverse commitments and allegiances. The volume is linked by common themes including the responsibilities persons have in virtue of belonging to a community, the compatibility of such obligations with equality, the demands of distributive justice in general, and liberalism's relationship to liberty, community, and equality.

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780226923529

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Bleak Liberalism by Amanda Anderson Pdf

Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno -- Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing

Author : Markate Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061711177

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Communitarianism by Markate Daly Pdf

Intended as a supplement in Social and Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Ideologies, and Democratic Theory, as well as a core volume for courses taught exclusively on communitarianism. That liberal democratic theory needs to be changed and our institutions need to be reformed is an argument strenuously resisted by many political philosophers. The most interesting development in political philosophy in the last 15 years has been the communitarian critique of liberalism. Communitarians insist that deficiencies in liberal theory are directly to blame for the declining fortunes of the American people. They propose to substitute the values of community for values of liberty and equality as the guiding ideal of our culture.

Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231527538

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Political Liberalism by John Rawls Pdf

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible and irreconcilable doctrines—religious, philosophical, and moral—coexist within the framework of democratic institutions. Recognizing this as a permanent condition of democracy, Rawls asks how a stable and just society of free and equal citizens can live in concord when divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines? This edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines Rawls' plans to revise Political Liberalism, which were cut short by his death. "An extraordinary well-reasoned commentary on A Theory of Justice...a decisive turn towards political philosophy." —Times Literary Supplement

Author : Andrew Altman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400828401

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Critical Legal Studies by Andrew Altman Pdf

Scholars in the "Critical Legal Studies" movement have challenged some of the most cherished ideals of modern Western legal and political thought. CLS thinkers claim that the rule of law is a myth and that its defense by liberal thinkers is riddled with inconsistencies. This first book-length liberal reply to CLS systematically examines the philosophical underpinnings of the CLS movement and exposes the deficiencies in the major lines of CLS argument against liberalism.

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199670437

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Liberalism by Michael Freeden Pdf

Michael Freeden explores the concept of liberalism, one of the longest-standing and central political theories and ideologies. Combining a variety of approaches, he distinguishes between liberalism as a political movement, as a system of ideas, and as a series of ethical and philosophical principles.

Author : Matthew McManus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030610258

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A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights by Matthew McManus Pdf

This book has two aims. First, to provide a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law, and secondly, to present a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left wing conception of human dignity. At the opening of the 21st century a remarkable thing happened. Liberalism, once considered the only doctrine left standing at the end of history, began to face renewed competition from both the political left and the post-modern conservative right. This book argues that the way forward is not to abandon, but to radicalize, the potential of the liberal project. Analysing major theoretical positions in order to build a critical genealogy of liberal rights, McManus lucidly develops a left wing alternative to the classic liberal approach to rights drawing on the traditions of liberal egalitarians and deliberative democracy theory. Societies, he argues, should be committed to advancing the human dignity of all through the enshrinement of certain rights into positive state law, the expansion of democracy and a resolute commitment to economic equality.

Author : Paul Fairfield
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080204736X

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Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition by Paul Fairfield Pdf

Beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of liberal philosophers, Fairfield proposes that liberalism requires a complete reconception of moral selfhood, one that accommodates elements of the contemporary critiques without abandoning liberal individualism.