Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty
by Collins, Sue; Den Uyl, Douglas J.; England, Edwin; Fuller, Timothy; Grasso, Kenneth; Kline, William; Miller, Fred D., Jr.; Rasmussen, Douglas B.; Skoble, Aeon J.; Sternberg, Elaine; Sullivan, Denis; Taylor, James S.; Thomas, Charlotte; Thunder, David; VedFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-06-19
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl's recent book Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005) is being received in philosophy and political theory as an important and original defense of liberalism. The book offers a neo-Aristotelian ethic of human flourishing as a basis for a liberal conception of human rights. One of the authors' central contentions is that a key problem for any (liberal) political philosophy is how to establish a political/legal order that in principle does not require that any one person or group's well-being be given structured preference over that of any other.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| An Introduction to Norms of Liberty | p. xi |
| Assessing the Prospects for Norms of Liberty | p. 1 |
| A Liberal Defense of Liberalism | p. 13 |
| Can the Political Priority of Liberty be Squared with the Ethical Priority of Flourishing? | p. 27 |
| Building a Bridge from Both Sides: A Response to Norms of Liberty | p. 41 |
| Beyond Both the Polis and the Enlightenment: Reflections on Norms of Liberty and the Crisis of Contemporary Liberal Theory | p. 59 |
| A Non-"Atomist" Defense of Individual Liberty | p. 85 |
| Aristotle and Aristotelianism in Norms of Liberty | p. 109 |
| Moral Truth, Moral Disagreement, and the Agent-Relative Conception of Moral Value | p. 117 |
| Reflections on Norms of Liberty: What Makes Liberty Worthy of the Name? | p. 133 |
| Human Flourishing and Voluntarist Self-Direction | p. 141 |
| Flourishing Through Trade | p. 149 |
| Self-Directedness and the Human Good in Norms of Liberty | p. 165 |
| Norms of Liberty: Challenges and Prospects | p. 177 |
| Bibliography | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 251 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 255 |
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