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    Millian liberalism does not require state neutrality abou... — Carmelics
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    Millian liberalism does not require state neutrality about the good

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    • 1.Millian perfectionism holds that autonomy and self-determination are higher-order goods
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    • 2.A state that recognizes specific goods as higher-order has taken a stand on questions of the good
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    • 3.The Millian state explicitly recognizes autonomy and self-determination as higher-order goods
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle functions as a side-constraint on state action, not a positive endorsement of any particular conception of the good life.
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    • 2.A framework that limits state interference without ranking life-plans is procedurally neutral in the morally relevant sense, even if it presupposes some background values.
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    • 3.Rawls and Dworkin distinguish neutrality of aim from neutrality of effect, and Millian liberalism satisfies the former by targeting equal liberty rather than promoting specific excellences.
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    • 1.Recognizing autonomy as a precondition for pursuing any good is distinct from endorsing autonomy as itself a substantive good within a particular conception of flourishing.
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    • 2.Kantian and neo-Kantian liberals argue that autonomy-preservation is a meta-level commitment about agency, not a first-order perfectionist judgment about what makes lives go well.
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    By contrast, Mill is a perfectionist liberal who eschews neutrality about the good. According to Millian perfectionism, the good life is not defined in sectarian terms as consisting in a particular set of activities. Rather, the good life is understood in terms of the exercise of capacities for practical deliberation that can be realized in diverse, though limited, ways. Basic liberties are important because they are necessary conditions for this sort of reflective self-direction and self-realiz
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