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The propriety of liberty : persons, passions and judgement in modern political thought /
In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: The Propriety of Liberty; CHAPTER ONE: 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency; CHAPTER TWO: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation; CHAPTER THREE: 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory; CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization.