Lives, liberties and the public good : new essays in political theory for Maurice Cranston

Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Lives, Liberties and the Public Good....Pages 1-13 ‘Liberté, Liberté Chérie’....Pages 15-26 Hobbes on Liberty and Executive Power....Pages 27-43 Hobbes on the Regulation of Voluntary Motion....Pages 45-60 Rousseau’s Two Concepts of Liberty....Pages 61-100 Liberty, Equality, Democracy: Tocqueville’s Response to Rousseau....Pages 101-120 Bentham and Mill on Liberty and Justice....Pages 121-138 Two Minds or One? The Mills, the Webbs, and Liberty in British Social Democracy....Pages 139-172 Innovation and the Public Good: On Understanding the Logic of Liberty....Pages 173-184 Policy-Making, Discretionary Judgement, and Liberty....Pages 185-202 Loyalty, Liberalism and the State....Pages 203-227 Justice, Law and Liberty....Pages 229-249 Postscriptum....Pages 251-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-272