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Unger's Critique of Liberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

C. F. Delaney
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Review Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 540 - 548
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1977

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References

1 Unger, Roberto: Knowledge and Politics. (New York: Free Press, 1975. Pp. 336. $12.95.)Google Scholar; Law in Modern Society. (New York: Free Press, 1976. Pp. 309. $12.95.)Google Scholar

2 For the authoritative statement of the doctrine of intelligible essences Unger directs us to Aristotle Metaphysics 7.4. 1030a and Christian Wolff, Philosophia Prima sive Ontologica, #143. For the authoritative statement of its denial he directs us to Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, pt. 4, chap. 46, and to John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, bk. 1, cap. 6, #2.

3 On this point see my “Rawls on Method” in New Essays on Contract Theory, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 3 (1977), 153–61Google Scholar.