Liberalism and common good

Viewing health care as a common good: looking beyond political liberalism.

INTRODUCTION..........................................................................278 I. CLINTON’S HEALTH CARE PLAN AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM ................................................................................280 II. HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM ................................................................................290 A. LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM ......

Cooperation and the common good.

In this paper, we draw the attention of biologists to a result from the economic literature, which suggests that when individuals are engaged in a communal activity of benefit to all, selection may favour cooperative sharing of resources even among non-relatives. Provided that group members all invest some resources in the public good, they should refrain from conflict over the division of thes...

Representations of Africa in Good Governance Discourse: Policing and Containing Dissidence to Neo-Liberalism,

Pluralism, Relativism, and Liberalism

One major focus of recent value‐pluralist literature has been the question of what normative consequences follow from pluralism. This essay critically examines three arguments that attempt to show that either liberalism or a bounded modus vivendi is the state of affairs that pluralism makes morally preferable. All three arguments are shown to encounter the same fundamental problem—once we have ...

Conservatism, Liberalism and Nationalism:

SCIENCE CONTINUES It was no just in relationship to commerce, industry and social welfare, however, that the great scientific achievements of the nineteenth century had an impact. By this time the perspectives of the Enlightenment had so affected both philosophy and science that the climate was more favorable than ever for asking totally new kinds of questions and for challenging old assumption...