Time, Freedom, and the Common Good - An Essay in Public Philosophy

Here is a systematic reconstruction of the theory underlying a free society. By examining three fundamental constitutents of contemporary life--social membership, temporality, and freedom--the author raises questions of the meaning of citizenship, principles of governance, and the ways in which the fruitful pursuit of livelihood and leisure may be best advanced. Each is seen to suggest moral imperatives for the guidance of a free society.

Drawing on intellectual and political inheritance, Sherover establishes the foundations of a pluralistic republicanism that evaluates its advancement of human freedom in practical and concrete terms.

About the author

Charles M. Sherover is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College. He also wrote Heidegger, Kant and Time and The Human Experience of Time; edited The Development of the Democratic Idea; and translated and edited Rousseau's Of the Social Contract and On Political Economy.

Product details

• Authors: Charles M Sherover, Charles M. Sherover
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.1989
• EAN: 9780791401781
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0178-1
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Suny Series in American Labor; Suny Series in American Labor; Suny Systematic Philosophy
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous