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This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within
the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in
shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
"An illuminating examination of contemporary liberalism."
"-Times Literary Supplement"
"Neal does a fine job of showing the flaws in leading academic
theories and accounts of liberalism. He shows the amazing vigor of
Thomas Hobbes's ideas, now more than three centuries old and still
in many ways the clearest and best expression of the liberal order.
And he provides a salutary cold shower for those grand dreamers
among us who want liberalism not only to order our lives, but also
to inspire, to shape, to teach us: 'A liberal order cannot even
nearly fulfill the longings of the heart and soul which move
us.'"
"-Michael Harvey, H-Net"
Should the state be neutral with regard to the moral practices
of its citizens? Can a liberal state legitimately create a
distinctively liberal character in its citizens? Can liberal ideals
constitute a point of consensus in a diverse society? In Liberalism
and Its Discontents, Patrick Neal answers these questions and
discusses them in light of contemporary liberal theory.
Approaching the topic of liberalism from a sympathetic and yet
immanently critical point of view, Patrick Neal argues that the
political liberalism of theorists like John Rawls and the
perfectionist liberalism of theorists like Joseph Raz fail to fully
express the generosity of spirit which is liberalism at its best.
Instead, Neal finds resources for the expression of such a spirit
in the much maligned tradition of Hobbesian, or vulgar, liberalism.
He argues that a turn in this direction is necessary for the
articulation of a liberalism more genuinely responsive to the
diversity of modes of life in the twenty-first century.
In these essays the reigning models of liberal political theory of
John Rawls and Joseph Raz are immanently criticized. Neal argues
that neither 'political' nor 'perfectionist' liberalism adequately
gives expression to the liberal spirit. Surprisingly, Neal finds
resources for the expression of such a spirit in the much maligned
tradition of Hobbesian, or 'vulgar', liberalism. He argues that a
turn in this direction is necessary for the articulation of a
liberalism more genuinely responsive to the diversity of modes of
life in the twenty-first century.
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Half Men (Paperback)
Patrick Neal; Sandra Warren
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