Quong’s influential book probably represents the most sophisticated defence of Rawlsian political liberalism. This review focuses on its content and systematizes it by chapters, emphasizing its relevance both in the first part, where the author puts the liberal perfectionist position under critical scrutiny by advancing three major objections (regarding autonomy, paternalism and political legitimacy), and the second, where the author presents and defends a distinctive version of political liberalism that clearly differs from the one presented by Rawls in several important features. The review also summarizes Quong’s innovative arguments regarding the nature of an overlapping consensus, the structure of political justification, the idea of public reason, and the status of unreasonable persons.
Keywords:
liberalism / perfectionism / public reason / overlapping consensus
Source:
Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2014, 5-11
TY - JOUR
AU - Cerovac, Ivan
PY - 2014
UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/1296
AB - Quong’s influential book probably represents the most sophisticated defence of Rawlsian political liberalism. This review focuses on its content and systematizes it by chapters, emphasizing its relevance both in the first part, where the author puts the liberal perfectionist position under critical scrutiny by advancing three major objections (regarding autonomy, paternalism and political legitimacy), and the second, where the author presents and defends a distinctive version of political liberalism that clearly differs from the one presented by Rawls in several important features. The review also summarizes Quong’s innovative arguments regarding the nature of an overlapping consensus, the structure of political justification, the idea of public reason, and the status of unreasonable persons.
T2 - Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society
T1 - An Overview of Liberalism without Perfection
SP - 5
EP - 11
DO - 10.2298/FID1401005C
ER -
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Cerovac, I.. (2014). An Overview of Liberalism without Perfection. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 5-11.
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1401005C
Cerovac I. An Overview of Liberalism without Perfection. in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society. 2014;:5-11.
doi:10.2298/FID1401005C .
Cerovac, Ivan, "An Overview of Liberalism without Perfection" in Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society (2014):5-11,
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1401005C . .
