Liberalism, communitarianism, and asocialism

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 249-261

  Cohen, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 0034258588     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004772729350     Document Type: Article

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1. Jean Bethke Elshtain, "The Communitarian Individual" in Amitai Etzioni, ed. New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and Communities (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1995), p. 104.
2. See Andrew J. Cohen, "A Defense of Strong Voluntarism," American Philosophical Quarterly 35:3, July 1998.
3. Charles Taylor, Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers 2 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 110.
4. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 508.
5. Alasdair MacIntyre in Giovanna Borradori, The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, and Kuhn, trans. Rosanna Crocitto (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1994), p. 143.
6. Michael J. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Political Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 322.
7. George Kateb, "Individualism, Communitarianism, and Docility," Social Research 56:4, Winter 1989, p. 926.
8. Taylor, Philosophy and the Human Sciences, p. 283.
9. Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), p. 55.
10. Ibid., pp. 72-73.
11. Ian Maitland, "The Communitarian Critique of the Market," presented at a meeting of the Connelly Ethics Seminar at Georgetown University, 22 March 1996.
12. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-Moralization of Society (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child (New York: Basic Books, 1985); Robert E. Lane, The Market Experience (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
13. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-Moralization of Society (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child (New York: Basic Books, 1985); Robert E. Lane, The Market Experience (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
14. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-Moralization of Society (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); Viviana Zelizer, Pricing the Priceless Child (New York: Basic Books, 1985); Robert E. Lane, The Market Experience (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991);
15. Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J.P. Mayer, trans. George Lawrence (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1969).
16. Toqueville, op. cit., p. 291.
17. Ibid., p. 589.
18. Himmelfarb, op. cit., p. 53.
19. Zelizer, pp. cit., p. 11.
20. Lane, op. cit., pp. 205-288, esp. pp. 231, 235, 252, 258, 555 and 556.
21. When I suggested this to Professor Maitland, he readily agreed.
22. See Jean Hampton, Political Philosophy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press 1997), p. 190.
23. Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, J.W. Burrow, ed. and trans. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1993), p. 21. For empirical evidence of this, see David T. Beito "Mutual Aid For Social Welfare: The Case of American Fraternal Societies," Critical Review 4:4, Fall 1990; and Leslie Siddeley "The Rise and Fall of Fraternal Insurance Organizations," Humane Studies Review 7:2, Spring 1992.
24. Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, J.W. Burrow, ed. and trans. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1993), p. 21. For empirical evidence of this, see David T. Beito "Mutual Aid For Social Welfare: The Case of American Fraternal Societies," Critical Review 4:4, Fall 1990; and Leslie Siddeley "The Rise and Fall of Fraternal Insurance Organizations," Humane Studies Review 7:2, Spring 1992.
25. Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action, J.W. Burrow, ed. and trans. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1993), p. 21. For empirical evidence of this, see David T. Beito "Mutual Aid For Social Welfare: The Case of American Fraternal Societies," Critical Review 4:4, Fall 1990; and Leslie Siddeley "The Rise and Fall of Fraternal Insurance Organizations," Humane Studies Review 7:2, Spring 1992.
26. Daniel Bell, Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 110.
27. Stephen Holmes, The Anatomy ofAntiliberalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 229.
28. Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), p. 210.
29. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue 2nd Ed (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984), p. 193.
30. Virginia Held, Rights and Goods (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1984), esp. pp. 69-81. See also Charles Fried, Right and Wrong (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), esp. p. 118 ff.
31. Virginia Held, Rights and Goods (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1984), esp. pp. 69-81. See also Charles Fried, Right and Wrong (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), esp. p. 118 ff.
32. Held, op. cit., p. 63.
33. Taylor, Philosophy and the Human Sciences, p. 309.
34. Ibid., p. 305.
35. See Taylor 1991, op. cit., esp. pp. 112-118 and Michael J. Sandel, "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self," Political Theory 12:1, February 1984.
36. See Taylor 1991, op. cit., esp. pp. 112-118 and Michael J. Sandel, "The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self," Political Theory 12:1, February 1984.
37. Held, op. cit., p. 67.
38. Ibid., p. 68.
39. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent, p. 106.
40. John Rawls, "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory: The Dewey Lectures 1980," Journal of Philosophy 77:9, September 1980, p. 540. See also Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, "Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory," Ethics 104:2, January 1994, esp. pp. 376 and 377.
41. John Rawls, "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory: The Dewey Lectures 1980," Journal of Philosophy 77:9, September 1980, p. 540. See also Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, "Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory," Ethics 104:2, January 1994, esp. pp. 376 and 377.
42. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). See also Onora O'Neill's "The Public Use of Reason" in Constructions of Reason: Explorations in Kant's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
43. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). See also Onora O'Neill's "The Public Use of Reason" in Constructions of Reason: Explorations in Kant's Practical Philosophy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
44. Stephen Macedo, "Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism: The Case of God v. John Rawls," Ethics 105:3, April 1995, p. 493.
45. Ibid.
46. See Jeremy Waldron, "Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism," The Philosophical Quarterly 37:147, April 1987, esp. pp. 134 and 135 and 146-150.
47. For helpful comments on earlier versions of this material, I am grateful to Tom Beauchamp, Chandran Kukathas, Madison Powers, Henry Richardson, Frank Chessa, Robin Fiore, Ian Maitland, and Susan Stark. I am also grateful to the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University for its generous support of this and related work.