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    Rejecting state neutrality is compatible with value plura... — Carmelics
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    Rejecting state neutrality is compatible with value pluralism

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    • 1.Joseph Raz's perfectionism holds that the state may promote autonomy while recognizing that autonomous lives take genuinely plural, incommensurable forms.
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    • 2.Promoting the conditions for autonomous choice—like education and opportunity—is compatible with remaining agnostic about which plural valuable life is chosen.
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    • 3.State neutrality is not entailed by value pluralism; Berlin himself distinguished between pluralism and liberalism, denying the logical inference between them.
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    • 1.Value pluralism, as articulated by Isaiah Berlin, asserts that multiple goods are real and irreducible, not that all state action endorsing goods is illegitimate.
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    • 2.A non-neutral state can coherently favor plural-goods-enabling conditions—like civic education or cultural preservation—without collapsing into monism.
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    • 3.George Crowder argues that pluralism generates a 'pluralist perfectionism' precisely because navigating plural values requires cultivating specific liberal virtues the state may promote.
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    • 1.One can reject state neutrality and embrace value pluralism
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    • 2.One can hold that there are a plurality of good, but incompatible, forms of life fully worthy of respect
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    The plausibility of the principle of state neutrality remains very much in dispute in contemporary political philosophy. Proponents of the principle maintain that state neutrality is necessary if the state is to respond appropriately to the fact that reasonable citizens in modern democratic societies are committed to conflicting conceptions of the good. They also hold that state neutrality is vital to ensuring stable and mutually beneficial social cooperation in these societies. Those sympatheti
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