Toward a Liberalism
Author(s)
Flathman, Richard
Language
EnglishAbstract
In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable relationship between liberalism and authority, he advances a theory of democratic citizenship tempered by appreciation of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority. Flathman examines the relationship of individual rights to freedom on one hand and to authority and power on the other, rejecting the quest for a single homogenous and authoritative liberal theory.
Keywords
Conservatism and right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Political science and theory; Social and political philosophyDOI
10.7298/71d1-cf47ISBN
9781501726279, 9781501726286, 9780801422430, 9781501727825, 9781501726279, 9781501726286Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, 1989Imprint
Cornell University PressClassification
Centrist democratic ideologies