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Overview Overview
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Legitimate Authority Legitimate Authority
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Equality Equality
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Autonomy-based Perfectionism Autonomy-based Perfectionism
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Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom
Get accessColin Bird is Associate Professor of Politics and Director, Program in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, University of Virginia. He is the author of The Myth of Liberal Individualism (CUP 1999), An Introduction to Political Philosophy (CUP 2006), and articles on a wide variety of topics, including state neutrality, the scope of ‘public reason’, propaganda, democratic theory, toleration, the role of religion in public life, respect, and self-respect. He is currently completing a book on the role of arguments about human dignity in political theory, tentatively entitled After Respect: the Use and Abuse of Dignitarian Humanism in Political Argument.
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Published:11 February 2016
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Abstract
This chapter analyzes three major assumptions in Joseph Raz’s book The Morality of Freedom (MF): its account of legitimate authority, its rejection of egalitarianism, and its defense of an autonomy-based perfectionism. It first summarizes the book’s main line of argument about how a concern for freedom should figure in moral reflection regarding the value and purpose of political practices. It then examines MF’s repudiation of the conventional self-image of liberalism, and in particular utilitarian consequentialism. It also considers Raz’s claim that the trajectory that liberal thought has described in the wake of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice is misguided. Finally, it discusses Raz’s strategy for reconciling a commitment to liberal freedom with a perfectionist political morality as it relates to the claim that autonomy is an essential aspect of individual flourishing.
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