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Liberalism without Perfection (Paperback)
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Liberalism without Perfection (Paperback)
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A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called
liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political
morality is characterised by a commitment to helping individuals
lead autonomous lives and making other valuable choices. In this
book Jonathan Quong rejects this widely held view and offers an
alternative account of liberal political morality. Quong argues
that the liberal state should not be engaged in determining what
constitutes a valuable or worthwhile life nor trying to make sure
that individuals live up to this ideal. Instead, it should remain
neutral on the issue of the good life, and restrict itself to
establishing the fair terms within which individuals can pursue
their own beliefs about what gives value to their lives. The book
thus defends a position known as political liberalism. In the first
part of the book Quong subjects the liberal perfectionist position
to critical scrutiny, advancing three major objections that raise
serious doubts about the liberal perfectionist position with regard
to autonomy, paternalism, and political legitimacy. In the second
part of the book Quong presents and defends a distinctive version
of political liberalism. In particular, Quong clarifies and
develops political liberalism's central thesis: that political
principles, in order to be legitimate, must be publicly justifiable
to reasonable people. Drawing on the work of John Rawls, Quong
offers his own interpretation of this idea, and rebuts some of the
main objections that have been pressed against it. In doing so,
Quong provides novel arguments regarding the nature of an
overlapping consensus, the structure of political justification,
the idea of public reason, and the status of unreasonable persons.
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