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    Liberal theory cannot provide an impartial framework gove... — Carmelics
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    Liberal theory cannot provide an impartial framework governing relations between different cultural communities.

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    • 1.Liberalism is based on a specific view of man and society.
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    • 2.A framework rooted in one particular cultural tradition cannot be impartial toward other cultural traditions.
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    • 1.Rawlsian political liberalism explicitly brackets comprehensive doctrines, grounding justice in overlapping consensus rather than any single cultural worldview.
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    • 2.A framework can be impartial in its procedural structure even if it originated within a particular tradition, just as mathematics transcends its Greek origins.
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    • 1.The argument proves too much: by its logic, no normative framework from any tradition could achieve impartiality, making cross-cultural justice discourse impossible rather than merely liberal-biased.
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    • 2.Thinkers like Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum have developed capabilities approaches drawing on diverse cultural sources, demonstrating liberalism's capacity for genuine cross-cultural revision.
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    Theorists adopting a postcolonial perspective go beyond liberal multiculturalism toward the goal of developing models of constitutional and political dialogue that recognize culturally distinct ways of speaking and acting. Multicultural societies consist of diverse religious and moral outlooks, and if liberal societies are to take such diversity seriously, they must recognize that liberalism is just one of many substantive outlooks based on a specific view of man and society. Liberalism is not f
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