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Liberalism and Its Critics (Readings in Social and Political Theory)

By Michael Sandel

Book information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0814778410, 9780814778418
LCC
JC571 .L536 1984
Open Library ID
OL2854078M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14573578 bytes)
Edition
New York University Press Paperback, 1984
Pages
256\280
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.

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