Liberalism presumes a context where individuals are members of a society that promotes particular values such as freedom and individual diversity

In an influential essay titled “Atomism”, Charles Taylor objected to the liberal view that “men are self-sufficient outside of society”. (Taylor 1985, 2000) Instead, Taylor defends the Aristotelian view that “Man is a social animal, indeed a political animal, because he is not self-sufficient alone, and in an important sense is not self-sufficient outside a polis” (Taylor 1985, 190). Moreover, this atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society, because it fails to grasp the extent to