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Author Gaus, Gerald F

Title Justificatory Liberalism : an Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (391 pages)
Series Oxford Political Theory Ser
Oxford Political Theory Ser
Contents CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INTRODUCTORY: EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICAL THEORY; PART I--PERSONAL JUSTIFICATION; PART II--PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION; PART III--POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION; APPENDIX: LIBERAL PRINCIPLES IN A WORLD OF STATES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Drawing on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, this treatise develops a theory of personally justified belief. Building on this, it then advances an account of public justification that is more normative and less "populist" than the views of political liberals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Liberalism.
Social contract.
Justification (Theory of knowledge)
Free enterprise.
liberalism.
Free enterprise
Justification (Theory of knowledge)
Liberalism
Social contract
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94049138
ISBN 9780195357455
0195357450
9780195094404
0195094409
1280527838
9781280527838
1429415843
9781429415842