The Fluidity of Neutrality
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Review of Politics
- Vol. 66 (4) , 633-648
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500039917
Abstract
The political ideal of neutrality toward conceptions of the good is unsustainable at the extremely abstract level proposed by some liberal theorists. Neutrality is nonetheless a valuable political ideal. One of the many ways that government can go wrong is to take a position on some question that it would, all things considered, be better for it to abstain from deciding. The classic example is the question of which (if any) religion is true. The idea of neutrality holds that government ought to avoid this pathology.Keywords
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