Liberal Purposes
Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 August 1991
- ISBN 9780521422505
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 230x153x26 mm
- Weight 527 g
- Language English 0
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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.
"...it is both a clear and up-to-date attack on the proceduralist experiment and a new and sympathetic outline of the value commitments that are actually presupposed by the core positions of liberal political morality." Political Theory
