This book is an original critique of contemporary liberal theories of justice, focusing on the problem of how to relate the personal point of view of the individual to the impartial perspective of justice. Moore's examination of prominent contemporary arguments for liberal justice reveals that individualist theories are subject to two serious difficulties: the motivation problem and the integrity problem. Individualists cannot explain why the individual should be motivated to act in accordance with the dictates of liberal justice, and--related to this--offer radically incoherent accounts of the person. Revisionist attempts to ground liberalism in contextual and perfectionist terms offer more defensible foundations, but Moore argues that such theories do not support liberal political principles. She concludes by sketching a historical and concrete approach to political and ethical theorizing which reformulates the relation between self-interest and morality, and is not subject to the problems that beset liberal individualist theories of justice. Her book advances the debate between communitarians and liberals about the kind of moral foundation which a liberal society requires.
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"Foundations is an intelligent book that is worth the time that it takes to decide when you agree and disagree with it."--The Review of Politics
"An excellent review of the literature and a persuasive argument for the communitarian view."--Choice
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Margaret Moore is of the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
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THIS book is principally concerned with theories of justice, theories of the defensibility of social or institutional arrangements for the distribution of the basic goods of society-money, power, status, leisure, and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
narrow compliers, particular ethical conception, regulative with respect, substantive ethical conceptions, broad compliers, individualist liberal theories, moral disunity, unproductive transfers, prudential goods, perfectionist arguments, narrow compliance, rational moral self, liberal political principles, straightforward maximizers, constrained maximizers, one person among others, communitarian foundations, supreme moral principle, relative concession, rational contractors, broad compliance, subjective motivational set, contemporary democratic society, communitarian interpretation, impartial standpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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THIS book is principally concerned with theories of justice, theories of the defensibility of social or institutional arrangements for the distribution of the basic goods of society-money, power, status, leisure, and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
narrow compliers, particular ethical conception, regulative with respect, substantive ethical conceptions, broad compliers, individualist liberal theories, moral disunity, unproductive transfers, prudential goods, perfectionist arguments, narrow compliance, rational moral self, liberal political principles, straightforward maximizers, constrained maximizers, one person among others, communitarian foundations, supreme moral principle, relative concession, rational contractors, broad compliance, subjective motivational set, contemporary democratic society, communitarian interpretation, impartial standpoint Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Morality of Freedom, Christian Scientist, Minimax Relative Concession, Patterns of Moral Complexity, Brian Barry, Categorical Imperative, John Rawls, Aristotelian Principle, Joseph Raz, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, David Gauthier, Will Kymlicka, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, New York, Principle of Generic Consistency, Basil Blackwell, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Charles Larmore, Norman Daniels, Reading Rawls New!
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