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The significance of the political: individuality and public happiness

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The paper argues that individualist (liberal and conservative) views of the individual and the state are contradictory in regard to each and to the relation between them. In failing to give substantial content to the individual and to the state, they make the former a nonentity, and the latter either unlimited or nonexistent. By contrast, the view of plural individuality, according to which individuals are constituted through relations with one another, offers an adequate account of the individual in which the political plays a substantial role especially through the necessity of public happiness. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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  • Robert Urquhart, 2014. "The significance of the political: individuality and public happiness," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 61(2), pages 153-172, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inrvec:v:61:y:2014:i:2:p:153-172
    DOI: 10.1007/s12232-014-0202-z
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    1. Robert Urquhart, 2016. "Accumulation as eternal recurrence: theology of the bad infinity," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 63(1), pages 7-30, March.

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    Keywords

    Individuality; Individualism; Politics; Public happiness; B1; B5;
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    JEL classification:

    • B1 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches

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