This ambitious and sweeping book presents a powerful argument against moral relativism and in favor of the objectivity of a theory of democratic individuality. Unlike much recent work in this field, the book does not simply adumbrate such a view. Rather, it develops the parallels between various versions of scientific and moral realism, and then reinterprets the history and internal logic of democratic theory, maintaining, for example, that the abolition of slavery represents genuine moral progress. The book also recasts the clashes between Marxist and Weberian, radical and liberal sociologies in the light of these moral claims, and sketches the institutions of a radical democracy.
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"The book presents an acute, historically informed, and unusually optimistic argument about moral progress. Striking in its intellectual breadth, [it] makes a significant contribution to the case that the social sciences are, at bottom, moral sciences." Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The parallels between scientific and moral realism are drawn to reinterpret the history and internal logic of democratic theory and present a powerful argument in favor of the objectivity of democratic individuality.
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eudaemonist theory, social theoretical claims, metaethical explanation, evidential indistinguishability thesis, moral realist account, nonvisible entities, equally sufficient capacity, antiradical ideology, metaethical relativism, core moral standards, democratic internationalism, capacity for moral personality, social individuality, nonslave societies, democratic individuality, metaethical account, sophisticated realism, parasite state, metaethical claims, moral discoveries, moral objectivity, ethical discovery, free political life, moral clashes, further individuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Protestant Ethic, United States, Nicomachean Ethics, French Revolution, Paris Commune, Richard Miller, Soviet Union, Richard Boyd, Benjamin Barber, David Lewis, Michael Walzer, Simon Blackburn, South Africa, Adam Smith, Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, David Lyons, General Economic History, Hilary Putnam, John Rawls, Michael Smith, American South, Amy Gutmann, European World Powers, Great Leap Forward New!
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The Protestant Ethic, United States, Nicomachean Ethics, French Revolution, Paris Commune, Richard Miller, Soviet Union, Richard Boyd, Benjamin Barber, David Lewis, Michael Walzer, Simon Blackburn, South Africa, Adam Smith, Bernard Williams, Charles Taylor, David Lyons, General Economic History, Hilary Putnam, John Rawls, Michael Smith, American South, Amy Gutmann, European World Powers, Great Leap Forward New!
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- Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Charles de Montesquieu on 5 pages
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on 5 pages
- Persian Letters by Charles Louis Baron de Montesquieu on 4 pages
- Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel on page 54, page 56, and Back Matter
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- The Cambridge Companion to Marx (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Terrell Carver in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- The Permanence of the Political by Joseph M. Schwartz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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