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The politics of individuality : moral selfhood in the liberal tradition /
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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2000.
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| Collection: | Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.