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Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State

Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State

Galston, William
MacLean, Douglas
William a., Galston

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0521422507
ISBN13: 9780521422505
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 30 1991
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
This book is a major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist. It challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman who believe that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and individual conceptions of what is good or valuable. Professor Galston argues that the modern liberal state is committed to a distinctive conception of the human good, and to that end has developed characteristic institutions and practices--representative governments, diverse societies, market economies, and zones of private action--in the pursuit of specific public purposes that give unity to the liberal state. These purposes guide liberal public policy, shape liberal justice, require the practice of liberal virtues, and rest on a liberal public culture. Consequently the diversity characteristic of liberal societies is limited by their institutional, personal, and cultural preconditions.

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