Abstract
This chapter presents the different aspects of liberal paradox. Liberal values seem to require that there are choices that are personal and the relevant person should be free to do what he likes. It would be socially better, in these cases, to permit him to do what he wants, everything else remaining the same. One may define the condition of liberalism in weak form. For each person i, there is at least one pair of distinct alternatives (x, y) such that he is decisive in the social choice between them in either order, x Piy âx P y, and y Pi x â y P x. This condition can be weakened by requiring such limited decisiveness not for all persons, but for at least some. If one demands it for only one, then of course it is not a case of liberalism, as it will be consistent with dictatorship as well.
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