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Informationen zum Autor David Thunder is research fellow in political philosophy at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Klappentext Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl's recent book Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (Penn State University Press, 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 which in principle does not require that any one person or group's well-being be given structured preference over that of any other. This companion volume, an interpretive and critical reader, features essays from both philosophers and political scientists, as well as an omnibus reply by Rasmussen and Den Uyl. Norms of Liberty makes challenging arguments about key issues, which makes a multi-disciplinary reader a valuable asset for both students and scholars. Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl is designed both to explicate the book's arguments and to explore possible objections. Zusammenfassung Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl is a collection of interpretive and critical essays by philosophers and political scientists which explores central themes in liberalism and its ethical and metaphysical grounding. The volume contains a reply essay by Rasmussen and Den Uyl. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 An Introduction to Norms of Liberty Chapter 3 Assessing the Prospects for Norms of Liberty Chapter 4 A Liberal Defense of Liberalism Chapter 5 Can the Political Priority of Liberty be Squared with the Ethical Priority of Flourishing? Chapter 6 Building a Bridge from Both Sides: A Response to Norms of Liberty Chapter 7 Beyond Both the Polis and the Enlightenment: Reflections on Norms of Liberty and the Crisis of Contemporary Liberal Theory Chapter 8 A Non-Atomist Defense of Individual Liberty Chapter 9 Aristotle and Aristotelianism in Norms of Liberty Chapter 10 Moral Truth, Moral Disagreement, and the Agent-Relative Conception of Moral Value Chapter 11 Reflections on Norms of Liberty : What Makes Liberty Worthy of the Name? Chapter 12 Human Flourishing and Voluntarist Self-Direction Chapter 13 Flourishing Through Trade Chapter 14 Self-Directedness and the Human Good in Norms of Liberty Chapter 15 Norms of Liberty : Challenges and Prospects ...
