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. @MattBruenig: liberal pluralism is fake because we all believe our view of final questions ought to reign. This makes 2 errors
First, it's logically possible to hold the truth of an ultimate view & still hold the political conditions of its adoption ought to allow its rejection https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1285955280816177154
First, it's logically possible to hold the truth of an ultimate view & still hold the political conditions of its adoption ought to allow its rejection https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1285955280816177154
2/ Second, as Charles Taylor (king of "communitarians") argued: one can arrive at human rights pluralism via radically different metaphysical, ethical & religious systems.
This "unforced consensus" is the one bit of Rawls that Taylor affirms. I say all this even though ...
This "unforced consensus" is the one bit of Rawls that Taylor affirms. I say all this even though ...
3/
I am not much of a liberal (or maybe on the heterodox periphery of that tradition).
But we must give liberalism its due: it is probably still the tradition that has thought through the problem of pluralism & human rights most dynamically & creatively to date. So let’s …
I am not much of a liberal (or maybe on the heterodox periphery of that tradition).
But we must give liberalism its due: it is probably still the tradition that has thought through the problem of pluralism & human rights most dynamically & creatively to date. So let’s …
4/
… keep in mind amid the discursive struggle that liberal pluralism whatever its defects has much to teach us.
Perhaps it's even true that any future politics that retains a humanistic affirmation of personhood & dignity will pass dialectically through the liberal tradition.
… keep in mind amid the discursive struggle that liberal pluralism whatever its defects has much to teach us.
Perhaps it's even true that any future politics that retains a humanistic affirmation of personhood & dignity will pass dialectically through the liberal tradition.
