'Political liberalism" claims to provide a better framework than
perfectionism for accommodating the plurality of interests and visions
of the good that exist in modern democratic societies. In the view of its
champions, conceptions of liberalism that make reference to the good
life are inadequate for that task because They have themselves become
simply another part of the problem/
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How convincing is their case?
Do they really offer the best perspective for envisaging the nature of a
liberal democratic consensus? As I have indicated, the central concern
of such conceptions is the possibility of social unity under modern
conditions in which there is a multiplicity of conflicting conceptions of
the good life. Rawls formulates this question in the following way:
"How is it possible that there may exist over time a stable and just
society of free and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable
though incompatible religious, philosophical and moral doctrines?'
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It is as a solution to that problem that both Rawls and Larmore defend a
liberalism that is strictly 'political' in the sense that it does not rely on
any comprehensive moral ideal, on any philosophy of man of the type
put forward by liberal philosophers like Kant or Mill. Their argument is
that, if they are to be accepted by people who disagree about the nature
of the good life, liberal institutions cannot be justified on grounds
which are bound to be controversial, like ideals of Kantian autonomy
or Millian individuality.
'Political liberalism" claims to provide a better framework than
perfectionism for accommodating the plurality of interests and visions
of the good that exist in modern democratic societies. In the view of its
champions, conceptions of liberalism that make reference to the good
life are inadequate for that task because They have themselves become
simply another part of the problem/
10
How convincing is their case?
Do they really offer the best perspective for envisaging the nature of a
liberal democratic consensus? As I have indicated, the central concern
of such conceptions is the possibility of social unity under modern
conditions in which there is a multiplicity of conflicting conceptions of
the good life. Rawls formulates this question in the following way:
"How is it possible that there may exist over time a stable and just
society of free and equal citizens profoundly divided by reasonable
though incompatible religious, philosophical and moral doctrines?'
11
It is as a solution to that problem that both Rawls and Larmore defend a
liberalism that is strictly 'political' in the sense that it does not rely on
any comprehensive moral ideal, on any philosophy of man of the type
put forward by liberal philosophers like Kant or Mill. Their argument is
that, if they are to be accepted by people who disagree about the nature
of the good life, liberal institutions cannot be justified on grounds
which are bound to be controversial, like ideals of Kantian autonomy
or Millian individuality.
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