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    It is not the case that Rejecting state neutrality is compatible with value pluralism

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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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    • 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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