Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T15:59:40.506Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Some Arguments for a Liberal Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

H. J. McCloskey
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne

Extract

In this Paper I am concerned to argue that the traditionally and contemporarily important arguments for a liberal society do provide a justification for what may fairly be called a liberal society. However, many liberals may wish to deny that the society which these arguments are seen to justify when their various limitations and qualifications are noted, can properly be called liberal, for it is less committed to non-interference with liberty than is the liberal society which those who advance these arguments believe to be justified by them.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1968

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The Sphere and Duties of Government, trans. Goulthard, J. Jun., London, Chapman, 1854, p. 111Google Scholar. See also Green, T. H.: Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, London, Longmans Green & Co., 1895, p. 208.Google Scholar