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Full Idea
Liberalism attaches fundamental value to leaving individuals as free as possible … - but there is another fundamental value implicit in this idea - the equal status of the participants in the practice. By this I mean that they all have the same rights.
Gist of Idea
Liberalism asserts maximum freedom, but that must be equal for all participants
Source
John Charvet (Liberalism: the basics [2019], Intro)
Book Ref
Charvet,John: 'Liberalism: the basics' [Routledge 2019], p.-3
A Reaction
Libertarian liberalism (e.g. Nozick) only asserts the fundament principle of freedom, but such a society swiftly deprives most of its members of those very freedoms. Egalitarian Liberalism should be our default political ideology.
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23037 | People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
18644 | States can't enforce mutual aid on citizens, or interfere for their own good [Nozick] |
23102 | Liberals are egalitarians, but in varying degrees [Kekes] |
21113 | Liberal equality concerns rights, and liberal freedom concerns choice of ends [Shorten] |
22821 | Liberalism asserts maximum freedom, but that must be equal for all participants [Charvet] |
22834 | Egalitarian liberals prefer equality (either of input or outcome) to liberty [Charvet] |
23141 | Left-wingers are inconsistent in their essentialist descriptions of social groups [Gopnik] |