On Political Means and Social Ends

by Ted Honderich

The moral and political arguments, judgements and commitments of Britain's outstanding radical philosopher.What society ought we to have, and what can we do to try to get it? This book sets out to answer these questions beginning with a new essay on the foundation of a liberalism of means and ends, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. It goes on to consider the culmination of liberal thinking in John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. It argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748618406
• ISBN13: 9780748618408
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher