Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics is political philosophy

Political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...

 book written by Douglas B. Rasmussen

Douglas B. Rasmussen

Douglas B. Rasmussen is professor of philosophy at St. John's University, where he has taught since 1981.-Biography:Rasmussen earned his B.A. from the University of Iowa, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University. Dr...

 and Douglas J. Den Uyl.

Table of contents

Analytic Contents

Preface

Part One: Liberalism and the Political Order

1. Liberalism in Crisis

2. Liberalism and Ethics

3. Liberalism's Past and Precendents

4. Why Individual Rights? Rights as Metanormative Principles

5. The Natural Right to Private Property

Part Two: A Deep Structure for Liberalism

6. Individualistic Perfectionism

7. Defending Individualistic Perfectionism

8. Natural Law and the Common Good

9. Self-Ownership

Part Two: Defending Liberalism

10. Communitarian and Conservative Critics

11. The Structure of the Argument for Individual Rights

12. Defending Individualistic Non-Perfectionist Politics

Epilogue: From Metanorms to Metaphysics

Index

Availability

Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics is available in paperback under ISBN 0-271-02701-0 (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press

Penn State University Press

The Penn State University Press, also called Penn State Press was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system...

, 2005).

External links

• David Gordon's review of Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics
• Shawn E. Klein's review of Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics