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The Liberal Polity: An Inquiry into the Logic of Civil Association

By Craig L. Carr

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0230019641, 9780230019645, 9780230800816
Open Library ID
OL10194206M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
882 kB (903320 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
264\264
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This work introduces and defends a radically different type of liberal political theory by severing liberal thought from all underlying moral foundations. Its aim is to present a type of liberalism capable of accommodating the richly diverse differences of worldview and moral theory of the good present in today's pluralist societies. By constructing liberalism as a purely political doctrine, the author develops a theory of toleration, and civil association more generally, capable of meeting liberalism's historic commitment to diversity. While the justification for such a liberalism must be made in prudential terms, rather than the more familiar moral terms used to support competing liberal theories, the liberalism developed here remains faithful to the liberal tradition by defending a theory of equal liberty as the primary political virtue of a just society.

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