Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism - Softcover

Spector, Horacio

 
9780199533626: Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199533628 ISBN 13: 9780199533626
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2008

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Horacio Spector provides an original and compelling moral justification of classical liberalism.

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Moral and political theorists who espouse Egalitarianism and Marxism tend to assume that it is extremely hard, if not impossible, to put forward an original and plausible moral justification of classical liberalism. Professor Spector is concerned to build just such a justification. He reconstructs and then criticizes a familiar approach to the moral foundations of classical liberalism which rests on the maximization of negative freedom, and then frames an alternative theory centered in the obligation to protect positive freedom. In doing so he parts company not only with utilitarianism and contractarianism, but also with the theory of natural rights. Among the topics he discusses are the concepts of negative and positive freedom, the notion of a moral right, the connection between positive freedom and personal autonomy, the axiological uniqueness of each human being, and the agent-relativity of moral reasons.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199533628
ISBN 13 
9780199533626
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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