Liberating Judgment : : Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability / / Douglas John Casson.
Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. The book argues that the work of John Locke instills a civic judgment that...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Great Recoinage
- I. Unsettling Judgment. Knowledge, Belief, and the Crisis of Authority
- II. Abandoning Judgment: Montaignian Skeptics and Cartesian Fanatics
- III Reworking Reasonableness. The Authoritative Testimony of Nature
- IV. Forming Judgment: The Transformation of Knowledge and Belief
- V. Liberating Judgment: Freedom, Happiness, and the Reasonable Self
- VI. Enacting Judgment: Dismantling the Divine Certainty of Sir Robert Filmer
- VII. Authorizing Judgment: Consensual Government and the Politics of Probability
- Conclusion. The Great Recoinage Revisited
- References
- Index