Against Perfectionism : : Defending Liberal Neutrality / / Steven Lecce.
In a democracy, political authority should be determined independently of religious, philosophical, and ethical ideals that often divide us. This idea, called liberal neutrality, challenges one of the oldest insights of the Western philosophical tradition in politics. At least since Plato, the conce...
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