The Propriety of Liberty : : Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought / / Duncan Kelly.
In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Propriety of Liberty
- Chapter One: 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency
- Chapter Two: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation
- Chapter Three: 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory
- Chapter Four: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization
- Chapter Five: Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution
- Chapter Six Coda: Liberty as Propriety
- Bibliography
- Index