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Against Liberalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Against Liberalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Liberalism is doomed to failure, John Kekes argues in this
penetrating criticism of its basic assumptions. Liberals favor
individual autonomy, a wide plurality of choices, and equal rights
and resources, seeing them as essential for good lives. They oppose
such evils as selfishness, intolerance, cruelty, and greed. Yet the
more autonomy, equality, and pluralism there is, Kekes contends,
the greater is the scope for evil. According to Kekes, liberalism
is inconsistent because the conditions liberals regard as essential
for good lives actually foster the very evils liberals want to
avoid, and avoiding those evils depends on conditions contrary to
the ones liberals favor. Kekes argues further that the liberal
conceptions of equality, justice, and pluralism require treating
good and evil people with equal respect, distributing resources
without regard to what recipients deserve, and restricting choices
to those that conform to liberal preconceptions. All these policies
are detrimental to good lives. Kekes concludes that liberalism
cannot cope with the prevalence of evil, that it is vitiated by
inconsistent commitments, and that—contrary to its
aim—liberalism is an obstacle to good lives.
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