Many rationalists will certainly accuse such a political philosophy of
opening the way to 'relativism' and 'nihilism' and thus jeopardizing
democracy. But the opposite is true because, instead of putting our
liberal institutions at risk, the recognition that they do not have an
ultimate foundation creates a more favourable terrain for their defence.
When we realize that, far from being the necessary result of a moral
evolution of mankind, liberal democracy is an ensemble of contingent
practices, we can understand that it is a conquest that needs to be
protected as well as deepened.