Against Liberalism / / John Kekes.
Liberalism 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, cru...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1999 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. What Is Liberalism?
- CHAPTER 2. The Prevalence of Evil
- CHAPTER 3. Individual Responsibility
- CHAPTER 4. Collective Responsibility
- CHAPTER 5. The Errors of Egalitarianism
- CHAPTER 6. Justice and Desert
- CHAPTER 7. justice without the Liberal Faith
- CHAPTER 8. Pluralism versus Liberalism
- CHAPTER 9. The Sentimentalism of Benevolence
- CHAPTER 10. What Is Wrong with Liberalism?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index