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This volume brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Freedom and the Good of Liberal Institutions 1. Republican Freedom, Social Justice, and Democracy
2. Political Perfectionism and Spheres of State Neutrality
3. The Common Good of Nations and International Order
Part II: Public Reasonability and Justification5. Discursive Equality and Public Reason
6. Perfectionist Public Reason Liberalism: Why Public Reason Liberalism Should Be Reconcilable with Political Perfectionism
7. Liberal Arts and the Failures of Liberalism
8. Perfectionism, Political Justification, and Confucianism
Part III: The Ethics of Pluralism 9. Religion, Democratic Deliberation, and the Requirement of Fallibilism
10. Perfectionism and Respect of Persons
11. Tolerance as Turnabout: Fair Play, Freedom, and Republican Character
12. Human Rights in the Natural Law Tradition
Part IV: Perfectionist Traditions 13. Well-Being Policy: Consensus Hallmarks and Cultural Variation
14. Aristotle, Athens, and Modern Democracy: Prospects for a Usable Past
15. Liberty and the Good in the American Founding
16. Confucian Perfectionism and Resources for Liberties
About the author
James Dominic Rooney, OP, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He works primarily in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Chinese philosophy, with research interests in natural law theory, social ontology, the ethical and political implications of pluralism, and how norms of practical reason affect public reason theories of justification. He has published in
Faith and Philosophy, dialectica, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Journal of Church and State, International Philosophical Quarterly, and other venues. His most recent book is
Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics: The Inevitability of Hylomorphism (2022).
Patrick Zoll, SJ, is Professor of Metaphysics at the Munich School of Philosophy in Germany. He published a monograph on the debate between anti-perfectionist and perfectionist liberals which won the renowned Karl Alber Prize 2016 and was nominated for the Deutscher Studienpreis 2016:
Perfektionistischer Liberalismus (2016). His other publications appeared in several journals:
Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, Heythrop Journal, Faith and Philosophy, and
Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie. His most recent book is
What It Is to Exist: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas's View to the Contemporary Debate (2022).
