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The Realist Turn

Repositioning Liberalism

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

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The Realist Turn

Repositioning Liberalism

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl maintain that a realist turn—namely, one in which the natural order is the basis for individual rights—is needed to bring about a proper understanding and defense of liberty. They argue that the critical character of individual rights results from their being tethered to metaphysical realism. After reprising their explanation and defense of natural rights, Rasmussen and Den Uyl explain metaphysical realism and defend it against neo-pragmatist objections. They show it to be a formidable and preferable alternative to epistemic constructivism and crucial for a suitable understanding of ideal theory.

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Springer Nature

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3030484351

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9783030484354

Perfectionist Turn

From Metanorms to Metaethics

By: Den Uyl Douglas Den Uyl

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Perfectionist Turn

From Metanorms to Metaethics

By: Den Uyl Douglas Den Uyl

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 ethical framework cannot support a liberal, non-perfectionist political theory by filling in the nature of the perfectionist ethical approach utilised in their previous political theorising. By developing the central features and principles of individualistic perfectionism they show that it is a major and powerful alternative to much contemporary ethical thinking - particularly to constructivism - and that it is capable of overcoming standard objections to perfectionism.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413366

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9781474413367

The Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Economy

A Debate

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,James P. Sterba

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The Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Economy

A Debate

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,James P. Sterba

When the Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops was ï¬rst released to the public, it occasioned a storm of controversy. The Bishops were criticized for presuming to enter into the debate on public policy, as well as for the speciï¬c policy recommendations they made. Here, Sterba and Rasmussen debate the philosophical validity of the Bishops' analysis of the U.S. economy, discussing the conception of human dignity philosophically, while critiquing economic empirical evidence.

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142

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Transaction Publishers

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1412836115

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9781412836111

Ancient Scandinavia

An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings

By: Theron Douglas Price

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Ancient Scandinavia

An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings

By: Theron Douglas Price

Ancient Scandinavia provides a comprehensive overview of the archaeological history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

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521

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190231971

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9780190231972

The Realist Turn

Repositioning Liberalism

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

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Repositioning Liberalism

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

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Palgrave Macmillan

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3030484343

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9783030484347

Norms of Liberty

A Perfectionist Basis for Non-perfectionist Politics

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

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Norms of Liberty

A Perfectionist Basis for Non-perfectionist Politics

By: Douglas B. Rasmussen,Douglas J. Den Uyl

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 order. Rasmussen and Den Uyl argue for construing individual rights as metanormative principles, directly tied to politics, that are used to establish the political/ legal conditions under which full moral conduct can take place. These they distinguish from normative principles, used to provide guidance for moral conduct within the ambit of normative ethics. This crucial distinction allows them to develop liberalism as a metanormative theory, not a guide for moral conduct. The moral universe need not be minimized or morality grounded in sentiment or contracts to support liberalism, they show. Rather, liberalism can be supported, and many of its internal tensions avoided, with an ethical framework of Aristotelian inspiration one that understands human flourishing to be an objective, inclusive, individualized, agent-relative, social, and self-directed activity.

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Penn State University Press

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0271027002

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9780271027005

Perfectionist Turn

From Metanorms to Metaethics

By: Den Uyl Douglas Den Uyl

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From Metanorms to Metaethics

By: Den Uyl Douglas Den Uyl

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The Realist Turn

The Realist Turn

Perfectionist Turn

Perfectionist Turn

The Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Economy

The Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Economy

Ancient Scandinavia

Ancient Scandinavia

The Realist Turn

The Realist Turn

Norms of Liberty

Norms of Liberty

Perfectionist Turn

Perfectionist Turn

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