Pluralism, Liberty, and the Challenge of Relativism
ABSTRACT
This conference was on the challenge that relativism poses to a classical liberal pluralistic conception of society as it can be read from Hume, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, and other authors.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Berlin, Isaiah. Liberty. Edited by Henry Hardy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Daston, Lorraine and Peter Galison. Objectivity. New York: Zone Books, 2010.
Gray, John. Post-Liberalism––Studies in Political Thought. London: Routledge, 1996.
Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1983.
Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Márquez, Jesús Silva-Herzog, “Tocqueville y el Liberalismo de la Duda” In La Fronda Liberal, compiled by Rivera, Josê Antonio Aguilar. Mexico: Taurus/CIDE, 2014. 173-182.
McCloskey, Deirdre. “The Rhetoric of Liberty.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 9-27.
Nozick, Robert. Philosophical Explanations. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981.
Oakeshott, Michael. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1962.
Rasmussen, Douglas and Douglas J. Den Uyl. Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
Rorty, Richard. “Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism.” The Journal of Philosophy (October 1983): 583-589.
Toulmin, Stephen. Return to Reason. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.