Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought

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Routledge, 2004 M01 15 - 256 páginas
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.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Forms of community
6
2 Mill and libertarian liberalism
37
3 Stephen and conservative liberalism
71
4 Spencer and the evolution of moral society
95
tradition and custom in the social order
131
6 Mises and the triumph of libertarian ideas
158
7 Hayek and the form of the liberal community
180
Conclusion
214
Bibliography
216
Index
226
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