Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: The Propriety of Liberty 1
6. Chapter One: ‘That glorious fabrick of liberty’: John Locke, the Propriety of Liberty and the Quality of Responsible Agency 20
7. Chapter Two: Passionate Liberty and Commercial Selfhood: Montesquieu’s Political Theory of Moderation 59
8. Chapter Three: ‘The True Propriety of Language’: Persuasive Mediocrity, Imaginative Delusion and Adam Smith’s Political Theory 117
9. Chapter Four: Taking Things as They Are: John Stuart Mill on the Judgement of Character and the Cultivation of Civilization 173
10. Chapter Five: Idealism and the Historical Judgement of Freedom: T. H. Green and the Legacy of the English Revolution 223
11. Chapter Six Coda: Liberty as Propriety 259
12. Bibliography 277
13. Index 341