A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called liberal perfectionism.
According to this view, liberal political morality is characterised by a commitment to helping …

The Insularity of the Reasonable: Why Political Liberalism Must Admit the Truth* David Estlund
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Are liberalism and perfectionism compatible? In this study Steven Wall presents and
defends a perfectionist account of political morality that takes issue with many currently …

This chapter focuses on John Rawls's recent approach to liberal political legitimacy. His
views on reasonableness and rationality are considered. It is argued that Rawls's …

tn a recent exchange withJohn Rawls, Jurgen Habermas1 objects| that Rawls's goal of an
overlapping consensus is too weak a foun-Sdation for a theory of justice. We know that for …

34 () POLITICAL THEORY/AUGUST 1987 original situation. There is, in effect, an implied
asymmetry between the most and the least privileged. The second group is favored over the …

John Rawls's A Theory ofJusticel marks a pivotal turning point in the most recent history of
practical philosophy, for he restored long-suppressed moral questions to the status of …

Since the publication of John Rawls's Political Liberalism1 in 1993 the very words of its title
have gained a new meaning. Previously the thought that liberalism was a political doctrine …

This article is a contribution to a critical exploration of the liberal project of normatively
justifying basic political principles. The specific focus is John Rawls's use of the idea of …

The views of Isaiah Berlin are an influential example, in the philosophical literature, of what
we might call perfectionist liberalism, a type of liberal political view that spells out a set of …