The big problems we're facing -- preeminently climate but also in the short term the pandemic -- require strong assertion of normative principles. But liberalism, going back to wars of religion, is shy about normative principles & prefers expertise & procedures: IOW we're fucked
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They are not part of the theory. The goal of the political philosophy of liberalism is to limit state power and stop tyranny. They are liberals who failed to live up to liberal ideas. There are progressives who were racists and socialists who condoned genocide.
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Is John Rawls an imperialist or in favor of ethnic cleansing? Is Ronald Dworkin?
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