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    Perfectionism, pluralism, and subjectivism are not by the... — Carmelics
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    Perfectionism, pluralism, and subjectivism are not by themselves full-fledged liberal ethics

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    • 1.A theory of the good must be supplemented by an additional argument linking liberal value with norms of equal liberty
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    • 2.A full liberal ethics requires an account of why other people command respect and deference simply by virtue of having values of their own
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    • 1.Aristotelian perfectionism already entails equal respect for rational agency as constitutive of human flourishing, without supplementary argument.
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    • 2.Mill's harm principle derives liberal equal liberty directly from utilitarian perfectionism, making the supplementary step internal, not external.
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    • 1.Value pluralism, as Berlin argued, itself generates the imperative of liberty by precluding any single authority from adjudicating between incommensurable goods.
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    • 2.If no hierarchy of values can be rationally established, then equal non-interference becomes the only coherent social norm, making pluralism self-sufficient as a liberal ethics.
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    The perfectionist, the pluralist and the subjectivist concur on the crucial point: the nature of value is such that reasonable people pursue different ways of living. To the perfectionist, this is because each person has unique capacities, the development of which confers value on her life; to the pluralist, it is because values are many and conflicting, and no one life can include them all, or make the interpersonally correct choice among them; and to the subjectivist, it is because our ideas a
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