Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition : the politics of individuality / / Paul Fairfield
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| Autore: |
Fairfield Paul <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition : the politics of individuality / / Paul Fairfield
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000 |
| ©2000 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.51 |
| Soggetto topico: | Liberalism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Livres numeriques. |
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-7737-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780658903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Toronto studies in philosophy.