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Liberalism with Excellence (Hardcover)
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Liberalism with Excellence (Hardcover)
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During the past several decades, political philosophers have
frequently clashed with one another over the question whether
governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable
conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. Whereas the
numerous followers of John Rawls (and kindred philosophers such as
Ronald Dworkin) have maintained that a requirement of neutrality is
indeed incumbent on every system of governance, other philosophers
- often designated as 'perfectionists' - have argued against the
existence of such a requirement. Liberalism with Excellence enters
these debates not by plighting itself unequivocally to one side or
the other, but instead by reconceiving each of the sides and thus
by redirecting the debates that have occurred between them. On the
one hand, the book rejects the requirement of neutrality by
contending that certain subsidies for the promotion of excellence
in sundry areas of human endeavour can be proper and vital uses of
resources by governments. Advocating such departures from the
constraint of neutrality, the book presents a version of liberalism
that can rightly be classified as 'perfectionist'. On the other
hand, the species of perfectionism espoused in Liberalism with
Excellence diverges markedly from the theories that have usually
been so classified. Indeed, much of the book assails various
aspects of those theories. What is more, the aspirational
perfectionism elaborated in the closing chapters of the volume is
reconcilable in most key respects with a suitably amplified version
of Rawlsianism. Hence, by reconceiving both the perfectionist side
and the neutralist side of the prevailing disputation, Liberalism
with Excellence combines and transforms their respective insights.
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