ABSTRACT
Across the millennia, political theorists have expounded and contested the enduring ideals of liberty, reason and justice. This chapter investigates these crucial political concepts in the context of a changing world. It examines the exercise and limits of freedom in terms of the relationship of positive liberty to negative liberty; the differences between economic, political and ecological forms of reason and their worldly impacts; and the meaning of justice, the danger of its immoderate pursuit, and the challenge of employing practical judgment to discern what is equitable.
