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S'està carregant… The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (Opus Books) (edició 1978)de C. B. Macpherson (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I discovered this work after it was assigned as an alternative textbook in lieu of David Held's "Models of Democracy" (for those who could get their hands on it - as it was out of print at the time) for an undergraduate political science course about 20 years ago. If there was ever a text that inspired me to become a political scientist - this was it. Need I say more? ( ) Crawford Brough Macpherson O.C. M.Sc. D. Sc. (18 November 1911 – 22 July 1987) was an influential Canadian political scientist who taught political theory at the University of Toronto who analyzes the foundations of liberal democracy, beginning with the utilitarianism of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, then to the more familiar and less chilling John Stuart Mill. Like many today, they pitied the laboring classes and the poor and felt that they should be "elevated" through social interventions, but they also believed in the value of the rich keeping and investing whatever they had, although their theories would appear argue otherwise. This early (lat 70s) and superficial study of the liberal theories offers one of the two most often-cited theorists of participatory democracy. Macpherson traces the background of current liberal-democratic theory, explains how the concept of democracy became both embedded in the shifting ideas of social equality and increasingly dependent on the mechanism of capitalism, and points forward towards a more participatory democracy. He questions widely-cited historical beliefs about early American Congregationalist Puritanism (cf. Perry Miller) and US President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and New England's Henry David Thoreau as "liberal democrats" by trying to trace liberal democratic theory back to utilitarian Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill's father, James Mill (born on 6 April 1773, of whom JS Mill as his first-born son). The family's name had changed there from Milne to Mill. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james-mill/ Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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In this brief but powerful book, acclaimed political philosopher C.B. Macpherson sets out in bold relief the essence of liberal democracy, both as it is currently conceived and as it might be reimagined. Macpherson argues that from its beginnings liberal democracy has accepted the underpinningprinciple of capitalist societies, that the "market maketh man." If that remains the central assumption of liberal democracy, Macpherson declares, then as an organizing framework for society, liberal democracy has reached the end of its useful life. But if a broader concept of liberal democracy isaccepted - "if [Macpherson writes] liberal democracy is taken to mean ... a society striving to ensure that all its members are equally free to realize their capabilities" - the great days of liberal democracy may yet lie ahead. The Wynford edition includes a new Introduction by Frank Cunningham ofthe University of Toronto. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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