| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 265 pages) |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42 |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42
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| Contents |
The social context of early liberal theory -- The evolution of rights-based social morality : Hobbes to James Mill -- Case study in anti-democratic liberalism : the Property Defence League -- Liberal rights-based social morality and its social presuppositions -- Capitalism as moral revolution -- Gerrard Winstanley : freedom and the needs of life -- The dialectic of rights and needs in the French Revolution -- Needs and social struggles in England and France in the nineteenth century -- Socialism and democratic need satisfaction -- Social rights -- John Rawls : self-determination : moral or material? -- Habermas's one-dimensional democracy -- Chantal Mouffe : the self-contradictions of 'political' democracy -- The reaction against social democratization -- Needs-based social morality, the life ground of value, and the good for human beings -- Negotiated coordination and the project for a democratic society |
| Summary |
In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary. For him, a democratic society is one in which human beings collectively control necessary life-resources, using them to promote the essential human value of free capability realization. His critique of globalization and liberal-capitalism vindicates radical social and economic democratization and provides an essential step towards understanding the vast discrepancies between rich and poor within and between democratic countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Democracy -- Social aspects
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Capitalism -- Political aspects
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Socialism.
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Socialism
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socialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Capitalism -- Political aspects
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Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Democracy -- Social aspects
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Socialism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773560161 |
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0773560165 |
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