Covenants without Swords
Subtitle: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691119922
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political science & theory; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; International Relations - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Philosophy; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science and International Relations; Equality; Hierarchies; Internationalism; Liberalism
First sentence: IN 1938, GILBERT MURRAY ARGUED IN Liberality and Civilization that liberalism was "not a doctrine; it is a spirit or attitude of mind . . . an effort to get rid of prejudice so as to see the truth, to get rid of selfish passions so as to do the right."