Virtue and the making of modern liberalism
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691016887
- ISBN10 0691016887
- Type Book
- Pages 235
- Published 1998
- Bookbinding Cloth
Virtue and the making of modern liberalism
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
Virtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character. Yet many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality or with crude attempts by government to legislate morals. Peter Berkowitz clarifies the fundamental issues, arguing that a certain ambivalence toward virtue reflects the liberal spirit at its best. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as classical political philosophy, he makes his case with penetrating analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill.