Liberalism with Honor

Liberalism with Honor
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 0674007565
ISBN-13 : 9780674007567
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Book Synopsis Liberalism with Honor by : Sharon R. Krause

Download or read book Liberalism with Honor written by Sharon R. Krause and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? In Liberalism with Honor, Sharon Krause explores honor as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action. She shows the sense of honor to be an important source of such action and a spring of individual agency more generally. Krause traces the genealogy of honor, including its ties to conscientious objection and civil disobedience, beginning in old-regime France and culminating in the American civil rights movement. She examines the dangers intrinsic to honor and the tensions between honor and modern democracy, but demonstrates that the sense of honor has supported political agency in the United States from the founders to democratic reformers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor continues to hold interest and importance today because it combines self-concern and personal ambition with principled higher purposes, and so challenges the disabling dichotomy between self-interest and self-sacrifice that currently pervades both political theory and American public life.


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