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    It is not the case that The atomistic view of the self can undermine liberal society

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    • 1.Rawls's 'political liberalism' explicitly brackets metaphysical claims about the self, grounding liberal norms in overlapping consensus rather than atomistic ontology.
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    • 2.Liberal institutions can remain stable through reasonable pluralism without requiring any particular conception of the self as foundational.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's autonomous self is relational and self-legislating within a kingdom of ends, not atomistic in the pre-social Hobbesian sense communitarians typically attack.
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    • 2.Conflating Kantian moral individualism with atomistic self-sufficiency commits a category error, attributing to liberalism a position its most rigorous defenders explicitly reject.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Liberalism presumes a context where individuals are members of a society that promotes particular values such as freedom and individual diversity
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    • 2.Liberalism presumes individuals are committed to such a society
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    • 3.The atomistic view of the self fails to grasp the extent to which liberalism presumes this social context
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