Stability and Congruence in Political Liberalism

The Promise of an Ideal of Civic Friendship

Bibliographic Data

ID6345853
AuthorsMihaela Georgieva (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume63
Issue2
Pages481-494
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12095
OpenAlexW2170208499
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

This article focuses on the perceived inadequacy of political liberalism to account for the normative priority of political values over non-political ones in cases of conflict between the two. I address this challenge by developing a revised account of congruence built on a public and shared rationale for endorsing the deliberative priority of political values. Such an account can be developed on the basis of the idea of civic friendship as a shared motivation among citizens in a society marked by reasonable pluralism. I show how the assumption of such a motivation across contractors in the Original Position can be warranted and what its implications are for the congruence between the political values expressed in a conception of justice and the non-political values forming part of citizens' conceptions of the good

Classical liberalism · Congruence (geometry · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Friendship · Law and economics · Liberalism · Normative · Pluralism (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Value pluralism · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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