Liberalism & Affirmative Obligation

by Patricia Smith

The scope of affirmative obligation is a point of contention among liberals. Some see affirmative obligations required by social justice as incompatible with a strong commitment to individual freedom. The task before the moderate liberal is then to consider what a consistently liberal view of affirmative obligation would have to be in order to accommodate liberal commitments to freedom and justice and also account for long-standing institutions that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195115287
• ISBN13: 9780195115284
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"