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Autore |
Flathman Richard E |
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Titolo |
Toward a Liberalism / Richard E. Flathman |
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Cornell University Press, 2018 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1989 |
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©1989 |
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ISBN |
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9781501727825 |
1501727826 |
9780801422430 |
0801422434 |
9781501726279 |
1501726277 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (223 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cultural pluralism |
Individualism |
Authority |
Liberalism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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