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  • 17 - Montesquieu’s Liberal Legacies
  • Edited by Keegan Francis Callanan, Middlebury College, Vermont, Sharon Ruth Krause, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu
  • Published online: 23 February 2023
  • Print publication: 02 March 2023, pp 289-306
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    Summary

    This chapter explores the particularity of Montesquieu’s political vision that includes a commitment to traditional social orders alongside a defence of liberty. It demonstrates how later theorists associated with the liberal tradition develop at least one of three features largely derived from Montesquieu’s work that we now associate with modern liberalism once combined with a commitment to social and political equality. These features are: institutional and constitutional organization to guarantee political accountability and the rule of law; social pluralism and representative government as a structure for the aggregation, education and voicing of broad social interests; and an ethos of moderation and avoidance of cruelty in social and political life. They characterize broad aspects of the liberal tradition at the level of institutional design, the structure of civil society and the broad social ethos needed to sustain it. The chapter concludes with reflections on perceived threats to liberalism today.

  • Justice Without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Patriotism
  • Rebecca E. Kingston
  • Journal: Perspectives on Politics / Volume 3 / Issue 4 / December 2005
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2005, pp. 888-890
  • Print publication: December 2005
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    Justice Without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Patriotism. By Kok-Chor Tan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 234p. $70.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.

    This is an excellent book. Not only does Kok-Chor Tan provide a strong argument for cosmopolitan justice in the face of various defenders of nationalism and patriotism who see their claims at odds with cosmopolitanism, but in doing so he offers a cogent overview of the relevant literature and provides order to discussions surrounding cosmopolitanism where there has been a great deal of confusion.