Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index.
Contents:
The gospel of life and the culture of death -- Hobbes and the origins of liberal modernity -- Locke's theistic liberalism -- Hume and the morality of sympathy -- The ambiguity of the American founding -- Tocqueville and the moral trajectory of modern democracy.
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