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