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The unjustifiability of substantive liberalisms and the inevitability of Engelhardtian procedural liberalism
Ruiping Fan
pp. 221-235
Through his account of the cardinal role of the principle of permission in a secular pluralist society, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. has established an ethic of non-substantive liberalism, which he usually terms "a content-less secular morality." Unlike versions of substantive liberalism, what he offers is a pure procedural principle concerning moral and political authority. In this essay I will argue that versions of substantive liberalism cannot be justified through sound rational argument. Consequently, an Engelhardtian non-substantive secular morality is morally unavoidable in the contemporary world.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5530-4_14
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Fan, R. (1997)., The unjustifiability of substantive liberalisms and the inevitability of Engelhardtian procedural liberalism, in , Reading Engelhardt, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 221-235.
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