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Liberalism and Affirmative Obligation (Hardcover, New)
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Liberalism and Affirmative Obligation (Hardcover, New)
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The scope of affirmative obligation is a point of contention among
liberals. Some see affirmative obligations required by social
justice as incompatible with a strong commitment to individual
freedom. The task before the moderate liberal is then to consider
what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would
have to be in order to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom
and justice and also account for long-standing institutions that
are central to liberal democratic society.
In this book, Patricia Smith argues that this can be achieved by
reconstructing the liberal doctrine of positive and negative duty.
She offers a careful consideration of these elements of liberal
principles as they relate to affirmative obligation. Through an
innovative analysis of the institutions of family and contract,
Smith develops the idea of duties of membership as preferable to
natural duties (to explain family obligation) and as needed to
supplement contractual duties (to explain professional obligation).
This idea is then applied to the problem of justifying political
obligation. She argues that membership obligations, implied in
cooperative endeavor, must supplement obligations of consent that
are central to liberal theory. This is deftly illustrated through a
state of nature theory that includes community membership,
eliminating atomistic individualism while maintaining consonance
with what Smith calls cooperative individualism. The resulting view
of liberal individualism is consistent, complete, and capable of
handling long-standing liberal institutions, while taking seriously
the demands of affirmative obligations.
Smiths clear articulation of a liberal view of
affirmativeobligation finds a middle ground on this polarized
topic, with compelling and reasoned implications for liberal
political philosophy. Her discussion will interest students and
scholars of legal and political philosophy and political science.
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