Natural Law Liberalism and the Malaise of Modeity (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy)

by: Stephen Boulter (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/7/23

Language: English

Print Length: 259 pages

ISBN-10: 3031597362

ISBN-13: 9783031597367

Book Description

This book examines modeity itself. A single overarching policy recommendation is defended, namely, that the West ought not to defect from modeity’s core commitments to the sciences, market economics and liberal democracy despite the litany of complaints that have been, and continue to be levelled against it. But in addition to this overarching recommendation, numerous policy suggestions are made. The reader will find discussions as wide-ranging as electoral regimes and judicial procedure, banking regulations and the ethics of a mode civil service. What binds these disparate subsidiary recommendations together is that they are designed to meet the challenges facing modeity while remaining true to its core commitments. These subsidiary policy recommendations, in tu, are not developed in an ad hoc manner, but are themselves motivated by a distinct philosophy of modeity which is termed natural law liberalism.

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This book examines modeity itself. A single overarching policy recommendation is defended, namely, that the West ought not to defect from modeity’s core commitments to the sciences, market economics and liberal democracy despite the litany of complaints that have been, and continue to be levelled against it. But in addition to this overarching recommendation, numerous policy suggestions are made. The reader will find discussions as wide-ranging as electoral regimes and judicial procedure, banking regulations and the ethics of a mode civil service. What binds these disparate subsidiary recommendations together is that they are designed to meet the challenges facing modeity while remaining true to its core commitments. These subsidiary policy recommendations, in tu, are not developed in an ad hoc manner, but are themselves motivated by a distinct philosophy of modeity which is termed natural law liberalism.