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Natural law liberalism /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Natural law liberalism // Christopher Wolfe.
Author:	Wolfe, Christopher,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Natural law. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509704
ISBN:	9780511509704 (ebook)

Natural law liberalism /
Wolfe, Christopher,

Natural law liberalism /Christopher Wolfe. - 1 online resource (x, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Contemporary liberal exclusionism I : John Rawls's antiperfectionist liberalism -- Contemporary liberal exclusionism II : Rawls, Macedo, and "neutral" liberal public reason -- Contemporary liberal exclusionism III : Gutmann and Thompson on "reciprocity" -- Contemporary liberalism and autonomy I : Ronald Dworkin on paternalism -- Contemporary liberalism and autonomy II : Joseph Raz on trust and citizenship -- "Offensive liberalism" : Macedo and "liberal" education -- Understanding liberalism : a broader vision --Understanding natural law -- Liberalism and natural law -- "Cashing out" natural law liberalism : the case of religious liberty -- A natural law public philosophy.

Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is only one, defective variant of liberalism. A careful analysis of the history of liberalism, identifying its core principles, and a similar examination of classical natural law theory (as represented by Thomas Aquinas and his intellectual descendants), show that a natural law liberalism is possible and desirable. Natural law theory embraces the key principles of liberalism, and it also provides balance in resisting some of its problematic tendencies. Natural law liberalism is the soundest basis for American public philosophy, and it is a potentially more attractive and persuasive form of liberalism for nations that have tended to resist it.

ISBN: 9780511509704 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

571842
Natural law.

LC Class. No.: JC574 / .W65 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 320.51

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