LEADER 05529nam 22007694a 450 001 9910780061603321 005 20210827032656.0 010 $a9786612753633 010 $a1-4008-2290-4 010 $a1-282-75363-0 010 $a1-4008-1103-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822904 035 $a(CKB)111056486500338 035 $a(EBL)581565 035 $a(OCoLC)670411206 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267816 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200902 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267816 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10213346 035 $a(PQKB)10709135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000444004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325892 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10468092 035 $a(PQKB)11241428 035 $a(OCoLC)51444567 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36134 035 $a(DE-B1597)446240 035 $a(OCoLC)979834477 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822904 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581565 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031900 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275363 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581565 035 $a(PPN)187297029 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486500338 100 $a19980701d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVirtue and the making of modern liberalism$b[electronic resource] /$fPeter Berkowitz 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aNew forum books 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-07088-1 311 0 $a0-691-01688-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-227) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1. Hobbes: Politics and the Virtues of a Lesser Order --$tCHAPTER 2. Locke: Private Virtue and the Public Good --$tCHAPTER 3. Kant: Virtue within the Limits of Reason Alone --$tCHAPTER 4. Mill: Liberty, Virtue, and the Discipline of Individuality --$tCONCLUSION --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aVirtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character. William Bennett's moral guide for children, A Book of Virtues, was a national bestseller. Yet many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality or with crude attempts by government to legislate morals. Peter Berkowitz clarifies the fundamental issues, arguing that a certain ambivalence toward virtue reflects the liberal spirit at its best. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as classical political philosophy, he makes his case with penetrating analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill. These thinkers are usually understood to have neglected or disparaged virtue. Yet Berkowitz shows that they all believed that government resting on the fundamental premise of liberalism--the natural freedom and equality of all human beings--could not work unless citizens and officeholders possess particular qualities of mind and character. These virtues, which include reflective judgment, sympathetic imagination, self-restraint, the ability to cooperate, and toleration do not arise spontaneously but must be cultivated. Berkowitz explores the various strategies the thinkers employ as they seek to give virtue its due while respecting individual liberty. Liberals, he argues, must combine energy and forbearance, finding public and private ways to support such nongovernmental institutions as the family and voluntary associations. For these institutions, the liberal tradition powerfully suggests, play an indispensable role not only in forming the virtues on which liberal democracy depends but in overcoming the vices that it tends to engender. Clearly written and vigorously argued, this is a provocative work of political theory that speaks directly to complex issues at the heart of contemporary philosophy and public discussion. New Forum Books makes available to general readers outstanding, original, interdisciplinary scholarship with a special focus on the juncture of culture, law, and politics. New Forum Books is guided by the conviction that law and politics not only reflect culture, but help to shape it. Authors include leading political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, philosophers, theologians, historians, and economists writing for nonspecialist readers and scholars across a range of fields. Looking at questions such as political equality, the concept of rights, the problem of virtue in liberal politics, crime and punishment, population, poverty, economic development, and the international legal and political order, New Forum Books seeks to explain--not explain away--the difficult issues we face today. 410 0$aNew forum books. 606 $aLiberalism 606 $aLiberalism$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aLiberalism. 615 0$aLiberalism$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a320.51/3/0973 700 $aBerkowitz$b Peter$f1959-$0540794 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780061603321 996 $aVirtue and the making of modern liberalism$93826568 997 $aUNINA