Abstract

Book Symposium on "Dealing with Diversity: A Study in Contemporary Liberalism" by D. Melidoro: comments and replies.

Highlights

  • Domenico Melidoro’s new book invites a reevaluation of liberalism’s response to diversity

  • Liberalism’s political approach to diversity needs to be varied and responsive to facts. Liberalism, both as an abstract theory of justice and as an approach to the appropriate limits of the law, must be articulated from within, and in ways that are sensitive to contexts, histories, and relationships among groups

  • The pro-toleration branch, impressed by the fact of religious violence, draws upon John Locke, with a focus on securing conditions of peace despite disagreement among religious conceptions. This branch of liberalism might be summarized by the dictum: do not murder people with different religious beliefs

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Introduction

Domenico Melidoro’s new book invites a reevaluation of liberalism’s response to diversity Central to his project is the recognition that many forms of diversity are inevitable because diversity is a (social) fact that liberalism must address. The result is an approach to liberalism that aims to secure conditions for peace when diversity and disagreement are inevitable. Melidoro defends his claims with particular attention to India Liberalism’s political approach to diversity needs to be varied and responsive to facts Liberalism, both as an abstract theory of justice and as an approach to the appropriate limits of the law, must be articulated from within, and in ways that are sensitive to contexts, histories, and relationships among groups. The liberal project that identifies the legitimate use of state coercion will require contextual and historical analysis, thereby resulting in a pluralist liberalism.

Political pro-toleration liberalism
Two liberal projects
Caregiving and the anti-exploitation clause
The autonomy argument

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