Political Liberalism

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The central idea is that political liberalism moves within the category of the political and leaves philosophy as it is. It leaves untouched all kinds of doctrines, religious, metaphysical, and moral, with their long traditions of development and interpretation. Political philosophy proceeds apart from all such doctrines, and presents itself in its own terms as freestanding. In a democratic society marked by reasonable pluralism, showing that stability for the right reasons is at least possible is also part of public justification. Actual political conditions under which parliaments and other bodies conduct their business necessitate great departures from that ideal. The essential idea is that deliberative democracy, and political liberalism also, limit relevant human interests to fundamental interests of certain kinds, or to primary goods, and require that reasons be consistent with citizens' mutual recognition as equals.

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