The propriety of liberty : persons, passions and judgement in modern political thought

Acknowledgements ix  Abbreviations xiii      Introduction: The Propriety of Liberty 1  The Self at Liberty 6  Liberty and Political Theory 9  Structure 12      Chapter One: "That glorious fabrick of liberty": John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency 20  Propriety, Prudence and Interpretation 21  John Locke and Pierre Nicole: Language, Prudence and  the Propriety of the Passions 24  Liberty and the Will 41  Persons, Passions and Judgement 46  Liberty and Personal Identity 53      Chapter Two: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu's Political Theory of Moderation 59  Justice 61  Lessons in Classics: Politics, Friendship and Despotism 68  The Passions of the Soul and the Actions of the Machine 82  Moderation and Soulcraft: The Action of Passionate  Selfhood 88  Legislative Passions and Civil Religion 94  Commercial Society and Political Liberty 105      Chapter Three:"The True Propriety of Language": Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith's Political Theory 117  Persuasive Agency 119  Sympathy and Propriety 128  A Passion for Justice: Smith's Political Theory 141  The Origins of Government and the Paradoxes  of Political Liberty 159  Conclusions 167      Chapter Four: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization 173  Liberty by Example 175  Greek Legacies 186  Civilization, Civility, Cooperation 194  Excursus: Republicanism, Radicalism and Representation 204  The Politics of Civilization 210  Propriety in Time 218      Chapter Five: Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution 223  Character and Action 226  Reformation and Revolution 234  Enthusiasm and Reform 241  Real Freedom 244  Political Theology 249  The Revolutionary Inheritance 255      Chapter Six: Coda: Liberty as Propriety 259  Problems of Self-Ownership 261  Responsible Agency 269  State Propriety 273      Bibliography 277  Index 341