Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics

by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Book Overview

How can we establish a political/legal order that in principle does not require the human flourishing of any person or group to be given structured preference over that of any other? Addressing this question as the central problem of political philosophy, Norms of Liberty offers a new conceptual foundation for political liberalism that takes protecting liberty, understood in terms of individual negative rights, as the primary aim of the political/legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027010
• ISBN13: 9780271027012
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"