Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition : the politics of individuality / / Paul Fairfield

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780658903321
• Autore: Fairfield Paul <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000; ©2000
• ISBN: 1-4426-7737-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Disciplina: 320.51
• Soggetti: Liberalism; Livres numeriques.; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Part One: The Metaphysics of Individuality -- 1. The Classical Liberals -- A Classical Fable -- Hobbes: The Appetitive Machine -- Locke: The Rational Proprietor -- Rousseau: The Historicized Self -- Kant: The Rational Will -- 2. Utilitarian and New Liberals -- The Transformation of Liberal Doctrine -- Bentham: Homo Economicus -- Mill: Utilitarian Individuality -- Green: Individuality Socialized -- Hobhouse: The New Liberal Self -- 3. Neoclassical Liberals and Communitarian Critics -- The Philosophy of the Self in Contemporary Liberal Theory.; Rawls: The Original Chooser -- Nozick: Homo Economicus, Again -- Communitarianism and Metaphysical Embarrassment -- Working Through Metaphysical Embarrassment -- Part Two: The Politics of Individuality -- 4. Changing the Subject: Refashioning the Liberal Self -- The Decline of the Worldless Subject -- A Hermeneutical-Pragmatic Philosophy of the Self -- The Self as a Situated Agent -- 5. Rational Agency -- The Regime of Instrumentality -- Communicative Reason -- 6. The Political Conditions of Agency -- The Free Society: A Justification -- The Free Society: An Interpretation -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.