Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of
individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and
that man's values are shaped by that society.
This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in
the political and social thought of leading liberal social
philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including
John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A. von Hayek. While
differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker
examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated
creature whole life is "nasty, brutish and short" but rather that
his motivations are dependent upon his place in a social order.
Charles R. McCann has produced an interesting work that mixes
communitarianism and economics and will surprise and intrigue in
equal measure. Students and academics involved in the history of
economic thought, philosophy and libertarianism will find this book
to be a useful addition to their reading list.
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