A growing number of political philosophers favor a view called
liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political
morality is characterized 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. Liberalism
without Perfection 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, he 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, Liberalism without Perfection
offers its own interpretation of this idea, and rebuts some of the
main objections that have been pressed against it. In doing so, it
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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