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