TY - BOOK AU - Noonan, Jeff. TI - Democratic society and human needs SN - 0773531203 U1 - 321.8 PY - 2006/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen`s University Press KW - Democracy KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Capitalism KW - Political aspects KW - Socialism KW - Démocratie KW - Aspect moral KW - Aspect social KW - Capitalisme KW - Aspect politique KW - Socialisme N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258 and index; The social context of early liberal theory -- The evolution of rights-based social morality : Hobbes to James Mill -- Case study in anti-democratic liberalism : the Property Defence League -- Liberal rights-based social morality and its social presuppositions -- Capitalism as moral revolution -- Gerrard Winstanley : freedom and the needs of life -- The dialectic of rights and needs in the French Revolution -- Needs and social struggles in England and France in the nineteenth century -- Socialism and democratic need satisfaction -- Social rights -- John Rawls : self-determination : moral or material? -- Habermas`s one-dimensional democracy -- Chantal Mouffe : the self-contradictions of `political` democracy -- The reaction against social democratization -- Needs-based social morality, the life ground of value, and the good for human beings -- Negotiated coordination and the project for a democratic society ER -