Against Perfectionism : : Defending Liberal Neutrality /

Against Perfectionism : : Defending Liberal Neutrality / / Steven Lecce.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lecce, Steven ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2008
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Three Classic Controversies
  • 1. Putting Up with Heresy
  • 2. Freedom for Eccentrics
  • 3. Is Prostitution Unpatriotic?
  • PART TWO. Liberalism Today
  • 4. Should Liberals be Perfectionists?
  • 5. The Continuity Thesis
  • 6. Contract Killing: A Critique
  • PART THREE. Defending Liberal Neutrality
  • 7. Democratic Equality
  • 8. Against the Epistemic Turn
  • 9. Beyond the Basic Structure
  • 10. How Political Is the Personal?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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