02727oam 22006134a 450 991027235060332120210915044305.01-5017-2782-60-8014-2243-41-5017-2627-710.7591/9781501726279(CKB)4340000000258185(MiAaPQ)EBC5317491(OCoLC)1057688765(MdBmJHUP)muse67545(DE-B1597)496427(OCoLC)1028942726(DE-B1597)9781501726279(EXLCZ)99434000000025818519881011d1989 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierToward a LiberalismRichard E. FlathmanIthaca :Cornell University Press,1989.©1989.1 online resource (223 pages)Cornell paperbacksIncludes index.0-8014-9536-9 1-5017-2628-5 9781501727825 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexIn 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 of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority. Flathman examines the relationship of individual rights to freedom on one hand and to authority and power on the other, rejecting the quest for a single homogenous and authoritative liberal theory.Cultural pluralismIndividualismAuthorityLiberalismElectronic books. Cultural pluralism.Individualism.Authority.Liberalism.320.5/1Flathman Richard E126873MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272350603321Toward a Liberalism2428389UNINA