The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics

by Douglas J. Den Uyl and Douglas B. Rasmussen

Book Overview

Contemporary political philosophy - especially in the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen - has assumed that it can separate itself off from other philosophical positions and frameworks. In this book, Den Uyl and Rasmussen challenge this trend by moving from the liberalism they advocate in their earlier work to what they call 'individualistic perfectionism' in ethics. They continue to challenge the assumption that a neo-Aristotelian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147441334X
• ISBN13: 9781474413343
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"