03562nam 2200709 450 991080710410332120231206210918.01-4426-7737-610.3138/9781442677371(CKB)2430000000001409(EBL)4671738(SSID)ssj0000377177(PQKBManifestationID)11277099(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377177(PQKBWorkID)10336724(PQKB)10498028(CaBNvSL)thg00600654 (DE-B1597)464664(OCoLC)944177856(OCoLC)999354221(DE-B1597)9781442677371(Au-PeEL)EBL4671738(CaPaEBR)ebr11257437(OCoLC)958571653(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104990(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/j1mjh8(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417998(MiAaPQ)EBC4671738(MiAaPQ)EBC3255444(EXLCZ)99243000000000140920160922h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoral selfhood in the liberal tradition the politics of individuality /Paul FairfieldToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (287 p.)Toronto Studies in PhilosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-4736-X Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Toronto studies in philosophy.LiberalismLivres numeriques.e-books.Electronic books. Liberalism.320.51Fairfield Paul1966-1108832MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807104103321Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition3962144UNINA