What's Wrong with Liberal Perfectionism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6355286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfonso J Damico (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 397-420 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3235313 |
| OpenAlex | W2322606773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Having dropped the claim of complete neutrality among conceptions of the good life and political values, liberals face anew the question of identifying the defining features of their rhetorical tradition. Through an examination of the works of Joseph Raz and William Galston, this article argues that we gain a better understanding of liberalism's defining features by recalling its historic opposition to perfectionism
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Liberal Party · Liberalism · Linguistics · Neutrality · Opposition (politics · Perfectionism (psychology · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2017 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |