
Author/Contributor(s): | Spragens, Thomas A |
Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Date: | 07/20/1990 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language, combined with appropriate analogies in political thought and action, Spragens maintains that it is possible to discern the outlines of a philosophically cogent and morally beneficial concept of rational practice on the part of a political community. This possibility, he contends, provides a philosophical basis for liberal democratic politics that is superior to utilitarian and deontological accounts.