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Renewing Liberalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Renewing Liberalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book develops an original and comprehensive theory of
political liberalism. It defends bold new accounts of the nature of
autonomy and individual liberty, the content of distributive
justice, and the justification for the authority of the State. The
theory that emerges integrates contemporary progressive and
pluralistic liberalism into a broadly Aristotelian intellectual
tradition. The early chapters of the book challenge the traditional
conservative idea of individual liberty-the liberty to dispose of
one's property as one wishes-and replace it with a new one,
according to which liberty is of equal value to all persons,
regardless of economic position. The middle chapters present an
original theory of socio-economic justice, arguing that a society
in which every citizen enjoys an equal share of liberty should be
the distributive goal of the State. It is argued that this goal is
incompatible with the existence of large disparities in wealth and
economic power, and that (contra conservative and libertarian
economic arguments) such disparities are harmful to the overall
health of national and global economies. The final chapters provide
an original argument that the State has both a moral duty and a
moral right to pursue this program of socio-economic justice
(contra conservative and libertarian moral arguments), and that
only the measures necessary to implement this program lie within
the morally justifiable limits on the State's authority. Though
primarily a political work, it spans most areas of practical
philosophy-including ethical, social, and legal theory; and
meta-ethics, moral psychology, and action theory. And though
fundamentally a philosophical work, it incorporates research from a
number of fields-including decision theory, economics, political
science, and jurisprudence; primatology, neuroscience, and
psychology; and history, anthropology, sociology, and ecology-and
is sure to be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students.
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