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LIVES, LIBERTIES AND THE PUBLIC GOOD
Also published by Palgravc Macmillan in association with the
London School of Economics
THE POLITICAL USES OF IDEOLOGY H. M. Drucker
PEASANTS AND GOVERNMENT IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Graeme J. Gill
THE ARMY AND THE CROWD IN MID-GEORGIAN ENGLAND
Tony Hayter
OIL AND EMPIRE: BRITISH POLICY AND MESOPOTAMIAN OIL,
1900-1920 Marian Kent
ECONOMIC CRIME IN EUROPE L. H. Leigh (editor)
MEN AND CITIZENS IN THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS Andrew Linklater
NESTOR MAKHNO IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR Michael Malet
THE NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY C. A. W. Manning
GRAHAM WALLAS AND THE GREAT SOCIETY Terence H. Qualter
OPINION CONTROL IN THE DEMOCRACIES Terence H. Qualter
THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND THE INSTITUTIONALISTS David Seckler
THE ORIGIN OF THE COMMUNIST AUTOCRACY Leonard Schapiro
HOBBES AND LOCKE W. von Leyden
ARISTOTLE ON EQUALITY AND JUSTICE W. von Leyden
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Maurice Cranston, with a manuscript
of Rousseau's Confessions
Photo: Bill Olson
Lives, Liberties and
the Public Good
New Essays in Political Theory for
Maurice Cranston
Edited by
George Feaver and Frederick Rosen
M
in association with
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Lives, liberties and the public good: new essays
in political theory for Maurice Cranston.
1. Liberty
I. Feaver, George II. Rosen, Frederick
III. Cranston, Maurice
323.44'01 JC585
ISBN 978-1-349-08008-3 ISBN 978-1-349-08006-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-08006-9
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on the Contributors viii
Introduction: Lives, Liberties and the Public Good 1
George Feaver
1 'Liberte, Liberte Cherie' 15
Raymond Polin
2 Hobbes on Liberty and Executive Power 27
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr
3 Hobbes on the Regulation of Voluntary Motion 45
Robert Orr
4 Rousseau's Two Concepts of Liberty 61
Robert Wokler
5 Liberty, Equality, Democracy: Tocqueville's Response
to Rousseau 101
Sanford Lakoff
6 Bentham and Mill on Liberty and Justice 121
Frederick Rosen
7 Two Minds or One? The Mills, the Webbs, and Liberty
in British Social Democracy 139
George Feaver
8 Innovation and the Public Good: On Understanding the
Logic of Liberty 173
Sergio Cotta
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9 Policy-Making, Discretionary Judgement, and Liberty 185
William Letwin
10 Loyalty, Liberalism and the State 203
Kenneth Minogue
11 Justice, Law and Liberty 229
Shirley Robin Letwin
Postscriptum 251
Maurice Cranston
A Bibliography of Maurice Cranston 259
Compiled by Calliope Farsides
Index 267
Acknowledgements
The editors wish to acknowledge their gratitude and thanks to Mr
Patrick Davis, Publications Officer, London School of Economics and
Political Science, for his valuable assistance, especially in the early
stages of this book. The editors are also indebted to Mrs June
Burnham for revising the translation from the French of the article by
Raymond Polin, and to Mrs Paula Da Gama Pinto for typing and
retyping a number of the contributions. Dean William C. Olson,
American University, Washington, D. C., has kindly given permission
for his photograph of Maurice Cranston to appear in this volume.
The editors also acknowledge with thanks the UBC/SSHRC
Research Grants Committee which enabled the editors to meet in
London to plan this volume, and the LSE Staff Research Fund which
enabled Ms Calliope Farsi des to compile the 'Bibliography of Maurice
Cranston'.
London GEORGE FEAVER
FREDERICK RosEN
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Notes on the Contributors
Sergio Cotta is Director of the Institute of Philosophy of Law,
University of Rome. He is the author of Existential Paths of the Law,
Why Violence? and Law and Existence. He is a specialist on the
political thought of the Enlightenment and has written on
Montesquieu and Rousseau.
George Feaver is Professor of Political Science at the University of
British Columbia. He is the author of From Status to Contract: A
Biography of Sir Henry Maine and of an extensive Introduction to the
reprint of Beatrice Webb's Our Partnership.
Sanford Lakoff is Professor of Political Science at the University of
California, San Diego. His writings on the history of political thought
include Equality in Political Philosophy and the American edition of A
Glossary of Political Ideas, co-edited with Maurice Cranston.
Shirley Robin Letwin is the author of The Pursuit of Certainty and The
Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct.
William Letwin is Professor of Government at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Origins of
Scientific Economics, Law and Economic Policy in America: The
Evolution of the Sherman Anti-trust Act, and editor of A Documentary
History ofA merican Economic Policy since 1789 and Against Equality.
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr is Professor of Government at Harvard
University. Among his writings in political theory are The Spirit of
Liberalism and Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the
Discourses on Livy.
Kenneth Minogue is Professor of Political Science at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. His writings include The
Liberal Mind, Nationalism, Concept ofa University, and most recently
Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology.
Robert Orr is Senior Lecturer in Government at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. He is a specialist in seventeenth-
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