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Index
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Propriety of Liberty
The Self at Liberty
Liberty and Political Theory
Structure
Chapter One ‘That glorious fabrick of liberty’: John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency
Propriety, Prudence and Interpretation
John Locke and Pierre Nicole: Language, Prudence and the Propriety of the Passions
Liberty and the Will
Persons, Passions and Judgement
Liberty and Personal Identity
Chapter Two Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu’s Political Theory of Moderation
Justice
Lessons in Classics: Politics, Friendship and Despotism
The Passions of the Soul and the Actions of the Machine
Moderation and Soulcraft: The Action of Passionate Selfhood
Legislative Passions and Civil Religion
Commercial Society and Political Liberty
Chapter Three ‘The True Propriety of Language’: Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith’s Political Theory
Persuasive Agency
Sympathy and Propriety
A Passion for Justice: Smith’s Political Theory
The Origins of Government and the Paradoxes of Political Liberty
Conclusions
Chapter Four Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization
Liberty by Example
Greek Legacies
Civilization, Civility, Cooperation
Excursus: Republicanism, Radicalism and Representation
The Politics of Civilization
Propriety in Time
Chapter Five Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution
Character and Action
Reformation and Revolution
Enthusiasm and Reform
Real Freedom
Political Theology
The Revolutionary Inheritance
Chapter Six Coda: Liberty as Propriety
Problems of Self-Ownership
Responsible Agency
State Propriety
Bibliography
Index
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