Liberalism and Pluralism: The Politics of E pluribus unum

207 Pages·2010·1.037 MB·English

by  Craig L. Carr (auth.)

Liberalism and Pluralism
AlsobyCraigL.Carr
THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF SAMUEL PUFENDORF (editor)
(trans.MichaelJ.Seidler)
ONFAIRNESS
THELIBERALPOLITY:AnInquiryintotheLogicofCivilAssociation
POLITY:PoliticalCultureandtheNatureofPolitics
Liberalism and Pluralism
The Politics of Epluribusunum
CraigL.Carr
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1. Liberalism—Philosophy. 2. Pluralism—Philosophy. 3. Civil
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
PracticalLiberalism 5
CivilUnityandSocialDiversity:ThePoliticsof
Epluribusunum 12
1 Politics,Morality,andPluralism 17
LiberalMoralityandPoliticalLegitimacy 18
PoliticalLegitimacyandSocialJustice 21
Williams’sConceptofthePolitical 28
Legitimacy,Stability,andMorality 31
2 ThePoliticsofMorality 37
AMoralPointofView 38
MannersandMorality 43
MoralityandConflict 48
MoralConflictandPoliticalTheory 52
3 TheMoralityofPolitics 55
FeminismandMulticulturalism 57
ADefenseofCulture 61
PoliticsandNormativeConflict 64
ThePoliticalasMoralViewpoint 68
MoralityandPolitics:AReview 71
4 PoliticalUnityandPluralism 77
TheLiberalArchipelago 80
LooseLinkageandPoliticalLegitimacy 83
PoliticalUnityandtheBodyPolitic 87
SocialJusticeandPoliticalUnity 92
TheBondsofCivility 97
viii CONTENTS
5 NationhoodandtheLiberalPolity 101
TheNatureofNationhood 104
PluralismandNationalism 111
CivicNationalismandSocialJustice 119
DeliberativeDemocracyandtheLiberalPolity 124
6 LiberalismandDemocracy 129
DemocracyandDeliberativeDiscourse 132
TheTermsofDeliberativeDiscourse 136
NormativeDiscourseandPoliticalLegitimacy 139
DeliberativeDemocracyandIntragroupPolitics 144
GroupAutonomyandIntergroupDiscourse 150
7 Politics,History,andReason 155
PrincipleandJusticeintheLiberalPolity 158
LiberalInstitutionsandLiberalIdeals 162
StoppingHistory 167
RationalismandPolitics 170
Notes 177
Index 197