Liberalism and its Critics
Liberalism and its Critics Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge…
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Liberalism and its Critics
Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position.
Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.