Scale and magnanimity in Civic Liberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6251578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gus Dizerega (Whitman College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 147-171 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913810308443577 |
| OpenAlex | W1981977837 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Thomas Spragens attempts to rebuild liberal theory by arguing that realist, libertarian, egalitarian, and identity liberals all have valid insights, but develop them one‐sidedly. Re‐examining the work of sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century liberals leads, he contends, to a more balanced liberalism. Spragens's often‐impressive effort to reconstruct liberalism is undermined by insufficient appreciation of the role of the scale of the polity and by confusions about civic friendship. Appreciation of Hayekian insights about spontaneous order, and of the limits of citizen knowledge in large polities, would help him solve the first problem. Distinguishing between friendship, friendliness, and social capital would help resolve the second
Aesthetics · Capital (architecture · Classical liberalism · Economic liberalism · Economics · Epistemology · Friendship · Identity (music · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Positive economics · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |