Against LiberalismLiberalism is doomed to failure, John Kekes argues in this penetrating criticism of its basic assumptions. Liberals favor individual autonomy, a wide plurality of choices, and equal rights and resources, seeing them as essential for good lives. They oppose such evils as selfishness, intolerance, cruelty, and greed. Yet the more autonomy, equality, and pluralism there is, Kekes contends, the greater is the scope for evil. According to Kekes, liberalism is inconsistent because the conditions liberals regard as essential for good lives actually foster the very evils liberals want to avoid, and avoiding those evils depends on conditions contrary to the ones liberals favor. |
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Against liberalism
Brugeranmeldelse - Not Available - Book VerdictKekes (The Morality of Pluralism, Princeton Univ. Pr., 1993) argues in this finely crafted book that moral wisdom is the most important virtue for human beings today. In the absence of a generally ... Læs hele anmeldelsen
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A Eudaimonistic Conception of Good Lives | 16 |
The Socratic Ideal and Its Problems | 31 |
Permanent Adversities | 51 |
Judgment and Control | 73 |
The First Mode of Reflection | 95 |
The Second Mode of Reflection | 114 |
The Second Mode of Reflection continued | 137 |
The Third Mode of Reflection | 160 |
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| Titel | Against Liberalism |
| Forfatter | John Kekes |
| Udgiver | Cornell University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 080148278X, 9780801482786 |
| Længde | 244 sider |
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