Renewing Liberalism
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
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Renewing Liberalism
Renewing Liberalism
James A. Sherman
Renewing Liberalism
James A. Sherman Department of Ethics, Society, and Law Trinity College Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-28276-3 ISBN 978-3-319-28277-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28277-0
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For Lorelei Qui novit, neque id quod sentit exprimit, perinde est ac si nesciret.
Acknowledgements
This book began as my dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. My first debt of thanks is to my supervisor, Dan Bonevac, the keenest conservative intellect I know, whose patience and encouragement enabled me to chase down my hunches and follow my arguments wherever they took me, and who was always ready and waiting with trenchant criticism when I got there. Jonathan Dancy was a sure-footed guide through some of the more rarefied terrain of ethical theory, and Al Martinich shared what was only a fraction of the impressive breadth and depth of his insight into philosophical, political, and intellectual history. Steve White ignited my interest in Aristotle’s ethical and political philosophy and taught by example the virtues of rigorous scholarship. It was in his seminar on Aristotle’s writings on justice, during my first year of graduate school, that the thought dawned on me that a good liberal could be a good Aristotelian. The late David Braybrooke showed me how much there was to left-wing political theory beyond the work of Rawls. Brian Leiter helped me to see the complexities involved in interpreting and defending Mill’s Harm Principle, and Sahotra Sarkar helped me get my bearings in the world of decision theory. Many years ago, my fascination with social and political tho
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