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    The twilight of the Liberal Social Contract? On the Reception of Rawlsian Political Liberalism

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    This chapter discusses the Rawlsian project of public reason, or public justification-based 'political' liberalism, and its reception. After a brief philosophical rather than philological reconstruction of the project, the chapter revolves around a distinction between idealist and realist responses to it. Focusing on political liberalism’s critical reception illuminates an overarching question: was Rawls’s revival of a contractualist approach to liberal legitimacy a fruitful move for liberalism and/or the social contract tradition? The last section contains a largely negative answer to that question. Nonetheless the chapter's conclusion shows that the research programme of political liberalism provided and continues to provide illuminating insights into the limitations of liberal contractualism, especially under conditions of persistent and radical diversity. The programme is, however, less receptive to challenges to do with the relative decline of the power of modern states

    Constitutivism

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    A brief explanation and overview of constitutivism

    Philosophy of action

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    The philosophical study of human action begins with Plato and Aristotle. Their influence in late antiquity and the Middle Ages yielded sophisticated theories of action and motivation, notably in the works of Augustine and Aquinas.1 But the ideas that were dominant in 1945 have their roots in the early modern period, when advances in physics and mathematics reshaped philosophy

    Organized democracy,

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    I. Machine politics.--II. Organized democracy.--III. The cost of machine politics.--IV. The necessity of reorganization.--V. General considerations.Mode of access: Internet

    Map of the town of Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont.

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    General map showing buildings and householders' names.Relief shown by hachures."Geologically colored by Albert D. Hager."Includes geological cross-section.Copy imperfect: Brittle, darkened, creased, with small tears along edges, backed by cloth. DL

    Utilizing offgrade manganese materials from Montana /

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    "August 1956"Mode of access: Internet
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