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Three Questions for Liberals
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2025
- pp. 191-213
- 10.1353/sor.2025.a956292
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abstract:
In this article, I ask three questions of the liberal. In each, I fill in philosophical detail around a certain sort of complaint raised in current public debates about their position. In the first, I probe the limits of the liberal's tolerance for civil disobedience; in the second, I ask how the liberal can adjudicate the most divisive moral disputes of the age; and in the third, I suggest the liberal faces a problem when there is substantial disagreement about the boundaries of the rational and the reasonable.