{"product_id":"liberating-judgment-9780691144740","title":"Liberating Judgment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, this book offers a different account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books \"Casson has written a superb treatment of John Locke... Casson's writing is clear and accessible, and thus appropriate for any level of student already familiar with Locke's work. The book is an excellent contribution to Locke scholarship.\"--Choice \"This is an attractive book, well printed, well bound, and well designed. Its arguments are always interesting, indeed fascinating, its scholarship is often admirable... Professor Casson [has written an] intelligent, ingenious, stimulating, searching and provocative ... piece of work.\"--Locke Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction: The Great Recoinage 1      Chapter I: Unsettling Judgment: Knowledge, Belief, and the Crisis of Authority 23  Certain Knowledge and Probable Belief 25  Unsettling Knowledge 34  Unsettling Belief 41      Chapter II: Abandoning Judgment: Montaignian Skeptics and Cartesian Fanatics 53  Montaigne and the Politics of Skepticism 54  Descartes and the Rationalist Dream 63  Young Locke as Skeptic and Absolutist 75      Chapter III: Reworking Reasonableness: The Authoritative Testimony of Nature 92  The Transformation of a Skeptic 97  Precursors to Lockean Reasonableness 103  From Lecture Halls to Laboratories 114      Chapter IV: Forming Judgment: The Transformation of Knowledge and Belief 126  Locke's Political Pedagogy 129  Fanatics and Philosophizers 136  Defining and Redefining Knowledge and Belief 143      Chapter V: Liberating Judgment: Freedom, Happiness, and the Reasonable Self 159  Unrestrained and Restrained Freedoms 160  The Pursuit of True and Solid Happiness 168  The Formation of the Reasonable Self 178      Chapter VI: Enacting Judgment: Dismantling the Divine Certainty of Sir Robert Filmer 185  Preaching Patriarcha from the Pulpit 188  Probable Judgment and the Authority of Scripture 192  The Slavishness of Systems 205      Chapter VII: Authorizing Judgment: Consensual Government and the Politics of Probability 219  The State of Nature as a Realm of Virtue and Convenience 223  From Moral Clarity to Epistemological Confusion 233  Entrusting Judgment to a Shared Authority 238  Prerogative, Public Good, and the Judgment of the People 244      Conclusion: The Great Recoinage Revisited 253  References 263  Index 279","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526157541719,"sku":"9780691144740","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691144740.jpg?v=1731863170","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberating-judgment-9780691144740","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}