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1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: The Propriety of Liberty; CHAPTER ONE: 'That glorious fabrick of liberty': John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency; CHAPTER TWO: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation; CHAPTER THREE: 'The True Propriety of Language': Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory; CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization. |
| Summary |
In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. In his framework, celebrated political writers, including John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green pursue the claim that freedom is best understood as a form of responsible agency or propriety, and they do so. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Liberty.
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Liberty. |
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Liberty -- History.
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History. |
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Political science -- History.
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Political science. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelly, Duncan. Propriety of liberty. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691143132 (DLC) 2010022371 (OCoLC)613423170 |
| ISBN |
9781400836840 (electronic book) |
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1400836840 (electronic book) |
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1282821113 |
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9781282821118 |
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9780691143132 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691143137 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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