Individualism and the Social Order : The Social Element in Liberal Thought (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

McCann, Charles

Routledge（2012/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415655132
• DDC分類 330.153

Full Description

Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.

This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries including John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A. von Hayek. While differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated creature whose life is 'nasty, brutish and short' but rather that his motivations are dependent upon his place in a social order.

Contents

Introduction 1. Forms of Community 2. Mill and Libertarian Liberalism 3. Stephen and Conservative Liberalism 4. Spencer and the Evolution of Moral Society 5. Sumner: Tradition and Custome in the Social Order 6. Mises and the Triumph of Libertarian Ideas 7. Hayek and the Form of the Liberak Community Conclusion