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Thunder versus enlightenment: response to thunder / Crowder, George

Crowder, George	Journal Article
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2009.

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I thank David Thunder for his stimulating comments.I agree with him that the issues debated here are important for public policy, but I don't accept that he has presented anjy good reason to reject my case for Enlightenment or autonomy-based liberalism, Thunder makes two main claims:first, that a meaningful right of exit needn't commit us to individual autonomy in the strong Enlightenment sense;second, that value pluralism doesn't generate such a commitment either.

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Liberalism ; Enlightenment ; Thunder

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Two concepts of liberal pluralism / Crowder, George

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2007.

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Is the liberal state entitled to intervene in the internal affairs of its nonliberal minorities to promote individual autonomy as a public ideal, or should it tolerate the nonliberal practices of such groups in the name of legitimate diversity? This problem can be fruitfully approached from the perspective of Isaiah Berlin's notion of "value pluralism." According to William Galston, value pluralism privileges a form of liberalism that is maximally accommodating of nonliberal groups and their practices. I agree that pluralism fits best with a liberal political framework, but I depart from Galston's interpretation of what liberal pluralism involves. Taking value pluralism seriously, I argue, implies a form of liberalism in which personal autonomy is a central public ideal

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Liberalism ; Toleration ; Autonomy ; Value Pluralism ; William Galston ; Diversity

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