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Paperback Liberal Rights: Collected Papers, 1981-1991 Book

ISBN: 0521436176

ISBN13: 9780521436175

Liberal Rights: Collected Papers, 1981-1991

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This volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of the papers written by Jeremy Waldron, one of the most internationally highly-respected political theorists writing today. The main focus of the collection is on substantive issues in modern political philosophy. The first six chapters deal with freedom, toleration, and neutrality and argue for a robust conception of liberty. Waldron defends the idea that people have a right to act in ways others...

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A modern classic

"Homelessness and the issue of freedom," chapter 13 in the collection, is among the finest essays concerning the distinction between "positive" and "negative" approaches to freedom, a distinction often misusedby partisans of the New Right; in a similar vein, "Welfare and the images of charity," chapter 10, situates the provision of social welfare in the liberal tradition by looking upon it as essential to the noninitiation of force and the preservation of public order. Other chapters interrogate the Rawls's Difference Principle and the conflict between liberal rights and democratic majoritarianism. Though my own politics are quite different, I suspect, from Waldron's, I found this collection compelling and often convincing.
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