Explaining the objective of the political liberals, Larmore declares
that they want to avoid appealing to controversial views of the good
life, but also to scepticism, which is itself a matter of reasonable
disagreement. Moreover, they are not satisfied with a type of
justification based merely on strategic considerations, a Hobbesian one
grounded on purely prudential motives. In Larmore's view, 'Only by
finding a mean between these two extremes can liberalism work as a
minimal moral conception/
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