Three Questions for Liberals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188766 |
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| Authors | Richard Pettigrew (0000-0003-0822-4300, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 191-213 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2025.a956292 |
| OpenAlex | W4409181016 |
| Language | EN |
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
Business · Political science · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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