Book contents
- Public Reason and Diversity
- Public Reason and Diversity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- A Note on the Essays
- Introduction
- Part I Liberalism
- Chapter 1 Reasonable Pluralism and the Domain of the Political
- Chapter 2 On Justifying the Moral Rights of the Moderns
- Chapter 3 Recognized Rights as Devices of Public Reason
- Chapter 4 The Moral Foundations of Liberal Neutrality
- Chapter 5 Coercion, Ownership, and the Redistributive State
- Part II Diverse Public Reason
- Index
Chapter 4 - The Moral Foundations of Liberal Neutrality
from Part I - Liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2022
- Public Reason and Diversity
- Public Reason and Diversity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- A Note on the Essays
- Introduction
- Part I Liberalism
- Chapter 1 Reasonable Pluralism and the Domain of the Political
- Chapter 2 On Justifying the Moral Rights of the Moderns
- Chapter 3 Recognized Rights as Devices of Public Reason
- Chapter 4 The Moral Foundations of Liberal Neutrality
- Chapter 5 Coercion, Ownership, and the Redistributive State
- Part II Diverse Public Reason
- Index
Summary
Section 1 of this essay explicates the concept of neutrality. Section 2 provides two arguments supporting a conception of Liberal Moral Neutrality. Given a certain understanding of moral and rational persons, I argue, moral neutrality is a fundamental and inescapable commitment. Section 3 shows how liberal moral neutrality leads to Liberal Political Neutrality. Fully grasping the nature of this liberal political neutrality, I argue in section 4, has radical implications for our understanding of the proper limits of government.
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- Public Reason and DiversityReinterpretations of Liberalism, pp. 105 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022