Ordered Liberty : : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues /

Ordered Liberty : : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues / / James E. Fleming, Linda C McClain.

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Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibiliti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Fleming, James E.,
McClain, Linda C,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2012
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
  • 2 Rights and Irresponsibility
  • 3 Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously
  • 4 Civil Society's Role in Cultivating the "Seedbeds of Virtue"
  • 5 Government's Role in Promoting Civic Virtues
  • 6 Conflicts between Liberty and Equality
  • 7 Autonomy versus Moral Goods
  • 8 Minimalism versus Perfectionism
  • 9 The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights
  • Epilogue: Pursuing Ordered Liberty
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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