{"product_id":"norms-of-liberty-douglas-b-rasmussen-9780271027012","title":"Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can we establish a political\/legal order that in principle does not require the human flourishing of any person or group to be given structured preference over that of any other? Addressing this question as the central problem of political philosophy, \u003ci\u003e Norms of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new conceptual foundation for political liberalism that takes protecting liberty, understood in terms of individual negative rights, as the primary aim of the political\/legal order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRasmussen and Den Uyl argue for construing individual rights as metanormative principles, directly tied to politics, that are used to establish the political\/ legal conditions under which full moral conduct can take place. These they distinguish from normative principles, used to provide guidance for moral conduct within the ambit of normative ethics. This crucial distinction allows them to develop liberalism as a metanormative theory, not a guide for moral conduct. The moral universe need not be minimized or morality grounded in sentiment or contracts to support liberalism, they show. Rather, liberalism can be supported, and many of its internal tensions avoided, with an ethical framework of Aristotelian inspiration--one that understands human flourishing to be an objective, inclusive, individualized, agent-relative, social, and self-directed activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271027010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271027012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.12w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 559","brand":"Douglas B. Rasmussen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913534079231,"sku":"9780271027012","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_81e65b6e-8821-46de-9d07-53852fc9d8a8.jpg?v=1680620902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/norms-of-liberty-douglas-b-rasmussen-9780271027012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}