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Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition
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Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition Hardcover - 2000

by Paul Fairfield


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Recent critiques of the foundations of liberalism from communitarian, socialist, postmodern, and other philosophical circles have served to remind liberals of several problematic assumptions at the heart of liberal doctrine from its inception to the present day. Such critiques necessitate a rethinking of the foundations of liberalism, and in particular those regarding the self and rationality that liberal politics presupposes.

Beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of liberal philosophers - including Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Green, Mill, and Rawls - Paul Fairfield proposes that liberalism requires a complete reconception of moral selfhood, one that accommodates elements of the contemporary critiques without abandoning liberal individualism. The model that emerges is one of situated agency - of a historically and linguistically constituted being who is never without the capacity for individual and autonomous expression. Fairfield defends a narrative conception of moral selfhood in the tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics, one that affords a proper vantage point from which to support and interpret liberal principles.

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  • Title Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition
  • Author Paul Fairfield
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  • Date 2000
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780802047366 / 080204736X
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.36 x 1.01 in (23.67 x 16.15 x 2.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Liberalism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00699597
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.51

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