Against Public Reason

David Enoch

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    Abstract

    Political liberalism seeks to define the principles of political association in terms that are independent, not only of religious convictions and substantive notions of the human good, but also of the individualist ideals, encouraging a self-critical attitude towards the conception of the good one espouses, to which the classical liberalism of Locke, Kant, and Mill typically appealed. This chapter explores the basic problem of political life to which political liberalism aims to provide a solution, the means—among which the moral assumptions, particularly a principle of equal respect for persons—by which it seeks to solve this problem, and the ends it can reasonably hope to achieve by the solution it develops.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationOxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 1
    EditorsDavid Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall
    Place of PublicationUK
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Pages112-142
    Volume1
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9780199669530
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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