Autonomy and Liberal Democracy
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Review of Politics
- Vol. 52 (3) , 378-396
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s003467050001696x
Abstract
Continuing philosophic doubt concerning the moral foundations of human rights threatens to undermine the growing belief in liberal democracy. This doubt has its roots in the reaction against the Enlightenment and is evident even in John Rawls's retreat from the apparent universalism of his theory of justice. There are good grounds, however, for regarding the traditional Western belief in moral and political autonomy as a sound basis for human rights and liberal democracy.Keywords
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