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    It is not the case that Perfectionism, pluralism, and subjectivism are not by themselves full-fledged liberal ethics

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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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    • 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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