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Ordered Liberty : Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674067455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ordered LibertyDDC classification:
  • 320.011
LOC classification:
  • KF4749
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues -- 2. Rights and Irresponsibility -- 3. Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously -- 4. Civil Society's Role in Cultivating the "Seedbeds of Virtue" -- 5. Government's Role in Promoting Civic Virtues -- 6. Conflicts between Liberty and Equality -- 7. Autonomy versus Moral Goods -- 8. Minimalism versus Perfectionism -- 9. The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights -- Epilogue: Pursuing Ordered Liberty -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues -- 2. Rights and Irresponsibility -- 3. Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously -- 4. Civil Society's Role in Cultivating the "Seedbeds of Virtue" -- 5. Government's Role in Promoting Civic Virtues -- 6. Conflicts between Liberty and Equality -- 7. Autonomy versus Moral Goods -- 8. Minimalism versus Perfectionism -- 9. The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights -- Epilogue: Pursuing Ordered Liberty -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.

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