Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Lives, Liberties and the Public Good

Essays on Political Philosophers and Their Work

  • Book
  • © 1987

Overview

Editors:
  1. George Feaver

    1. University of British Columbia, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Frederick Rosen

    1. London School of Economics and Political Political Science, UK
      University College, London, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Lives, Liberties and the Public Good

    • George Feaver
    Pages 1-13

  3. ‘Liberté, Liberté Chérie’

    • Raymond Polin
    Pages 15-26

  4. Hobbes on Liberty and Executive Power

    • Harvey C. Mansfield Jr
    Pages 27-43

  5. Hobbes on the Regulation of Voluntary Motion

    • Robert Orr
    Pages 45-60

  6. Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Liberty

    • Robert Wokler
    Pages 61-100

  7. Liberty, Equality, Democracy: Tocqueville’s Response to Rousseau

    • Sanford Lakoff
    Pages 101-120

  8. Bentham and Mill on Liberty and Justice

    • Frederick Rosen
    Pages 121-138

  9. Two Minds or One? The Mills, the Webbs, and Liberty in British Social Democracy

    • George Feaver
    Pages 139-172

  10. Innovation and the Public Good: On Understanding the Logic of Liberty

    • Sergio Cotta
    Pages 173-184

  11. Policy-Making, Discretionary Judgement, and Liberty

    • William Letwin
    Pages 185-202

  12. Loyalty, Liberalism and the State

    • Kenneth Minogue
    Pages 203-227

  13. Justice, Law and Liberty

    • Shirley Robin Letwin
    Pages 229-249

  14. Postscriptum

    • Maurice Cranston
    Pages 251-258

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 259-272
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of British Columbia, UK

    George Feaver

  • London School of Economics and Political Political Science, UK

    Frederick Rosen

  • University College, London, UK

    Frederick Rosen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lives, Liberties and the Public Good

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Political Philosophers and Their Work

  • Editors: George Feaver, Frederick Rosen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08006-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-08006-9Published: 18 June 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 272

  • Topics: Human Rights

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation