Equality in Liberty and Justice

ISBN-13: 9780765807342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str.

Antony Flew; Antony Flew

Opis

Equality in Liberty and Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas-the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic-and some of the applications and the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty and responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment and psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease. The second part examines the relations and the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice and what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as -Equal outcomes or equal justice?- and -Enemies of poverty or of inequality?- Equality in Liberty and Justice was originally published before the winning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. This second edition updates the arguments of the previous editor and draws present day moral conclusions. This book will appeal to those for whom the classical liberal and conservative debates still have great meaning. Flew might well be the most significant sunthesizer of Tocqueville and Mill.

Spis treści

Part 1: "the logic of liberty"; "could there be universal natural rights?"; "social contract or general will?"; "'freedom is slavery!" slogan for philosopher kings"; "choices and wants: discrediting the actual". Part 2: "the geography of justice"; "annihilating the individual"; "equal outcomes, or equal justice?"; "enemies of poverty, or of inequality?".

O autorze

Antony Flew