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Beyond Individualism : Reconstituting the Liberal Self.
In the examination of the conception of human nature, a duality is commonly perceived--the liberal self as atomistic, self-contained, even selfish; and the communitarian self as socially situated and defined through its environment. Crittenden argues that neither view is acceptable, drawing onrecent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION; I: Behind Individualism; 1. The Disposition of the Self; Charles Taylor: The Disengaged Self Versus the Strong Evaluator; Alasdair Maclntyre: Individualism Versus Narrative Unity; Michael Sandel: The Unencumbered Self Versus the Socially Situated Self; The Self as a Two-Track System; 2. The Theory of Compound Individuality; Piaget's Cognitive Structures; The Self-system: Process and Product; Membership Versus Autonomy; Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development; Critiques of Kohlberg; Liberal and Communitarian Selves Revisited; II: Beyond Individualism.
- 3. Autonomous Selfhood: Individualism Versus Compound IndividualityDefining Autonomy; Individualism; Contextualism and Compound Individuality; Practicing Contextualism; 4. Political Participation: Self-development and Self-interest; Participation as Cultivation of Character; Mirroring: Habits of the Heart; Empirical Support for Participation as Self-development; Outcomes: Generating the Common Good; Transforming Self-interests; Rousseau's Self-interest Properly Understood; Transcending Self-interest; Why Obey?; 5. Veneration of Community; What Is Community?; Communitarians on Community.
- Total CommunityParticipation and Liberal Community; III: Reconstituting the Liberal Self; 6. Socrates in a Pluralistic Tradition; Retrospective; Modern or ""New"" Liberals; A New Liberal Psychology; The Bugbear of Relativism; Liberal Virtues and the Good Life; Liberal Politics; Liberal Lessons from Communitarianism; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.