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Individualism and the Social Order Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man’s values are shaped by that society. This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the polit- ical and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A. von Hayek. While differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated creature whose life is ‘nasty, brutish and short’ but, rather, that his motivations are dependent upon his place in a social order. Charles R. McCann, Jr.is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. He has produced an interesting work that mixes communitarianism and economics and will surprise and intrigue in equal measure. 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McCann, Jr. First published 2004 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. © 2004 Charles R. McCann, Jr. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-48872-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-57431-1 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–32627–3(Print Edition) To the memory of my grandmother, Mary Rebecca Loveland McCann (1882–1967)
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