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ISBN: | 9781400824823 1400824826 0691117209 9780691117201 9780691089034 0691089035 9780691117201 0691089035
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may address human action in the ''public'' realm but not in the ''private.'' In Public Goods, Private Goods Raymond Geuss exposes the profound flaws of such thinking and calls for a more nuanced approach. Drawing on a series of colorful examples from the ancient world, he illustrates some of the many ways in w.
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Other form: | Print version: Geuss, Raymond. Public goods, private goods. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 0691089035 9780691089034
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