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Reform Liberalism Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

In-Suk Cha
In-Suk Cha*
Affiliation:
Unesco Chair of Philosophy, Seoul National University
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The liberal-communitarian debates, which became prominent in social and political philosophy during the 1980s, continue to be waged in those disciplines and in politics today with even more fervor, and this time, both the ‘80s and the ‘90s are called forth as bleak and sorry evidence for one side or the other. The current scene is reminiscent of some of the ‘60s ideological disputes, especially the reformist critique of conservatism within liberalism. And that dispute itself is reminiscent of yet another, the one from whence it derived, John Dewey's well-known opposition of new and old individualism.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 48 , Issue 192 , December 2000 , pp. 97 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2000

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Notes

1. Kenneth Dolbeare (1971), American Ideologies (Chicago: Markham) p. 85; Andrew Hacker (1961), Political Theory (New York: The Macmillan Co.) pp. 237-8.

2. Tom G. Palmer (1996), ‘Myths of Individualism,' in Canto 28/5. Palmer quotes Amitai Etzioni's address to the American Sociological Association as printed in the American Sociological Review (February, 1996). Palmer, a libertarian, also cites prominent communitarians Charles Taylor and Michael Sandel, who claim that classical libertarians see individuals as self-sufficient.

3. Frans J. Schuurman, ed., (1993), Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory (London: Zed Books) p. 11.

4. John Dewey (1980), The Theory of Moral Life (New York: Irvington) p. 163.

5. John Dewey (1966), Democracy and Education (New York: The Free Press) p. 297.

6. John Dewey (1954), The Public and its Problems (Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press) p. 145 ff.

7. Robert B. Westbrook (1991), John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) p. 431.

8. John Dewey (1981), The Philosophy of John Dewey (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) p. 643.

9. Ibid., p. 644.

10. John Dewey (1954), op.cit., p. 97.

11. Arnold Kaufman (1968), The Radical Liberal (New York: Simon & Schuster) p. 72.

12. John K. Galbraith (1968), The New Industrial Society (Boston: Houghton & Mifflin) p. 376.

13. Dolbeare, op.cit., p. 88.

14. Ibid., p. 89.