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Author_Douglas Den Uyl
Author_Douglas Rasmussen
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constructivism
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individualistic perfectionism
liberalism
natural teleology
practical wisdom
public reason
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- ISBN 9781474413343
- Weight: 705g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2016
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contemporary political philosophy - especially in the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen - has assumed that it can separate itself off from other philosophical positions and frameworks. In this book, Den Uyl and Rasmussen challenge this trend by moving from the liberalism they advocate in their earlier work to what they call ‘individualistic perfectionism’ in ethics. They continue to challenge the assumption that a neo-Aristotelian ethical framework cannot support a liberal, non-perfectionist political theory by filling in the nature of the perfectionist ethical approach utilised in their previous political theorising.
By developing the central features and principles of individualistic perfectionism they show that it is a major and powerful alternative to much contemporary ethical thinking - particularly to constructivism - and that it is capable of overcoming standard objections to perfectionism.
Douglas J. Den Uyl is Vice President of Educational Programs at Liberty Fund, Inc.
He has published essays or books on Spinoza, Smith, Shaftesbury, Mandeville and others. His most recent books include the co-authorship with Douglas B. Rasmussen of the 2006 book Norms of Liberty and God, Man and Well-Being: Spinoza’s Modern Humanism in 2008. He co-founded (with Douglas Rasmussen) the American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society, The North American Spinoza Society, and The International Adam Smith Society. He taught Philosophy and was Department Chair and Full Professor at Bellarmine College (now Bellarmine University) before coming to Liberty Fund.
Douglas B. Rasmussen is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in New York City. He is the author of numerous articles in various philosophical journals and books as well as coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of Liberty and Nature, Liberalism Defended, and Norms of Liberty (which has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish). His research interests are in ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, ontology, and political economy.
