A tragédia do liberalismo

Liberalism’s Tragic Evolution

by Henry Clark / 1 Comment

Filed Under: Bodin, Classical Liberalism, French Revolution, John Locke, Natural Rights, Robert Filmer,Thomas Hobbes, utilitarianism

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Title: The System of Liberty: Themes in the History of Classical Liberalism
Author: George H. Smith
Publish Date: 2013
Publisher / Edition: Cambridge University Press

This book gives both friends and critics of the classical liberal tradition much to think about. Its thoughtful, closely reasoned account of liberalism from Locke to the present is written not in heroic or comic but in tragic mode; its title subject is presented as a worthy but thus far failed enterprise impeded by unresolved albeit identifiable problems.

The volume contains both a general story about the nature and fate of the liberal tradition and a series of fine-grained insights that reframe old questions in new ways. Concerning the latter, a chief use of the book will be to provide a sort of informal handbook of heuristic tools to those charged with teaching the history or philosophy of liberty. But first the story:

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