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    Longing for the Good: The Growth of Moral Order in the Ethics of F. H. Bradley
    Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1993.
    Bradley's critique of abstract, atomic individualism in social and political theory addresses persistent shortcomings of liberalism. At the same time, his account of the growth of moral order in the individual offers a counterweight to excessively organicist theories of the moral self, which dissolve it into social context and undercut the possibility of non-social, non-trivial moral norms. This thesis argues that Bradley avoids this by complementing the contextual determination of individual en…Read more