- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Preamble -
1 Liberalism -
2 Freedom -
3 Culture and Anxiety -
4 The Liberal Community -
5 Liberal Imperialism -
6 State and Private, Red and White -
7 The Right to Kill in Cold Blood -
8 Hobbes’s Political Philosophy -
9 Hobbes and Individualism -
10 Hobbes, Toleration, and the Inner Life -
11 The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau -
12 Locke on Freedom -
13 Mill’s Essay On Liberty -
14 Sense and Sensibility in Mill’s Political Thought -
15 Mill in a Liberal Landscape -
16 Utilitarianism and Bureaucracy -
17 Mill and Rousseau: Utility and Rights -
18 Bureaucracy, Democracy, Liberty -
19 Bertrand Russell’s Politics -
20 Isaiah Berlin -
21 Popper and Liberalism -
22 Alexis de Tocqueville -
23 Staunchly Modern, Nonbourgeois Liberalism -
24 Pragmatism, Social Identity, Patriotism, and Self-Criticism -
25 Deweyan Pragmatism and American Education -
26 John Rawls -
27 Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie -
28 Hegel on Work, Ownership, and Citizenship -
29 Utility and Ownership -
30 Maximizing, Moralizing, and Dramatizing -
31 The Romantic Theory of Ownership -
32 Justice, Exploitation, and the End of Morality -
33 Liberty and Socialism - Index
The Liberal Community
The Liberal Community
- Chapter:
- (p.91) 4 The Liberal Community
- Source:
- The Making of Modern Liberalism
- Author(s):
Alan Ryan
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter focuses on the “liberal-communitarian debate.” It argues that the conflict between liberalism and communitarianism that the “debate” supposes is a figment of the imagination; many paradigmatic liberals have been communitarians, and many paradigmatic communitarians have been liberals. In support of this claim, the chapter emphasizes some illiberal-sounding remarks of T. H. Green and L. T. Hobhouse. It then considers how epistemological, methodological, psychological, and moral issues have been muddled together, and when they are unmuddled, it emerges that there is no one general issue at stake. Nonetheless, these issues are connected, and the chapter says something about how they are connected. It proceeds by describing a liberal community and its social, economic, and political attachments, identifying several tensions that could properly be called tensions between liberty and community. It concludes with a discussion of the relationship between community and democracy.
Keywords: liberalism, communitarianism, T. H. Green, L. T. Hobhouse, liberal community, liberty, community, democracy
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Preamble -
1 Liberalism -
2 Freedom -
3 Culture and Anxiety -
4 The Liberal Community -
5 Liberal Imperialism -
6 State and Private, Red and White -
7 The Right to Kill in Cold Blood -
8 Hobbes’s Political Philosophy -
9 Hobbes and Individualism -
10 Hobbes, Toleration, and the Inner Life -
11 The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau -
12 Locke on Freedom -
13 Mill’s Essay On Liberty -
14 Sense and Sensibility in Mill’s Political Thought -
15 Mill in a Liberal Landscape -
16 Utilitarianism and Bureaucracy -
17 Mill and Rousseau: Utility and Rights -
18 Bureaucracy, Democracy, Liberty -
19 Bertrand Russell’s Politics -
20 Isaiah Berlin -
21 Popper and Liberalism -
22 Alexis de Tocqueville -
23 Staunchly Modern, Nonbourgeois Liberalism -
24 Pragmatism, Social Identity, Patriotism, and Self-Criticism -
25 Deweyan Pragmatism and American Education -
26 John Rawls -
27 Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie -
28 Hegel on Work, Ownership, and Citizenship -
29 Utility and Ownership -
30 Maximizing, Moralizing, and Dramatizing -
31 The Romantic Theory of Ownership -
32 Justice, Exploitation, and the End of Morality -
33 Liberty and Socialism - Index
