03125nam 22007454a 450 991082205250332120200520144314.01-134-34058-30-429-23310-80-203-48872-51-280-01995-61-134-34059-1(CKB)1000000000250862(EBL)182693(OCoLC)437055810(SSID)ssj0000299565(PQKBManifestationID)11212857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299565(PQKBWorkID)10242188(PQKB)10916254(MiAaPQ)EBC182693(Au-PeEL)EBL182693(CaPaEBR)ebr10098836(CaONFJC)MIL1995(OCoLC)54494279(FlBoTFG)9780429233104(EXLCZ)99100000000025086220030825d2004 uy 0engur||####|||||txtccrIndividualism and the social order the social element in liberal thought /Charles R. McCann, JrFirst edition.London ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (249 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economy ;55Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.0-203-60229-3 0-415-65513-7 0-415-32627-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Forms of community; Mill and libertarian liberalism; Stephen and conservative liberalism; Spencer and the evolution of moral society; Sumner: tradition and custom in the social order; Mises and the triumph of libertarian ideas; Hayek and the form of the liberal community; Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexLiberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries including John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A. von Hayek. While differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated creature whose life is 'nasty, brutish and short' but rRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;55.LiberalismIndividualismFree enterpriseSocial valuesCommunitiesLiberalism.Individualism.Free enterprise.Social values.Communities.320.51McCann Charles R(Charles Robert),1956-252283MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822052503321Individualism and the social order4190397UNINA