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Individualism and the social order : the social element in liberal thought
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ISBN: 0203488725 1280019956 1134340591 0415326273 0415655137 0203602293 0429233108 9780203488720 9780415326278 9786610019953 6610019959 9781134340590 9781134340545 1134340540 9781134340583 1134340583 9780415655132 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries including John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A. von Hayek. While differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated creature whose life is 'nasty, brutish and short' but r

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