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Turkey’s ‘liberal’ liberals

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2016
This article seeks to address the increasingly pertinent concern of how to form a satisfactory liberal stance in the face of certain democratically mandated policies of non-liberal and even sometimes illiberal governments. To that end, a close analysis is provided of a particular debate that generated controversy in certain liberal circles in Turkey ...
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Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality

Ethics, 1989
Liberal neutrality has been criticized from many angles. This chapter concerns the connection critics draw between neutrality and individualism, particularly in the context of Rawls's theory of justice. It distinguishes three different ways that critics have attempted to connect neutrality and individualism and argues that all rest on ...
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Liberated and Liberators

2004
The thesis underlying this book is that multinational communities are part of the patchwork of Liberation in France, and are relevant to our ongoing discussions of the events of 1944/1945. The five case studies (Normandy, Cherbourg, Marseille, the Pyrenees-Orientales and Reims) have attempted to bring together the often separate narratives of ...
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Liberating Liberalism from Liberal Neutrality

2007
Liberal neutrality is the idea that laws should not be based on religious or philosophical doctrines that not everyone accepts. The idea is closely related to the "liberal principle of legitimacy", which holds that laws are legitimate only if they are acceptable to people who are subject to them.
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The Renewal of Liberalism: Liberalism without Liberals

1975
The history of the Liberal Party between the wars is in most respects a melancholy record. The party declined from strength to insignificance in twenty years: a governing party of 260 M.P.s when the armistice was signed in 1918, it had dwindled by the declaration of war in 1939 to a mere parliamentary pressure group of eighteen members.
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Liberalism against Liberal Arts

2018
This chapter examines the ways in which liberalism undermines liberal education. First, liberalism undermines education by detaching the educational enterprise itself from culture and making it an engine of anticulture. Second, liberalism undermines education by replacing a definition of liberty as an education in self-government with liberty as ...
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Liberal Education and Liberalism

Ethics, 1945
BY SUCCESSIVE additions of new to old usages in the course of its long history, the good phrase "a liberal education" has by now acquired, as I will try to show in this paper, three overlapping but largely diverse and in some respects conflicting meanings, which now tend, respectively, to be uppermost in different minds as vehicles of their differing ...
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Liberal Education and Liberalism

The Good Society, 2004
To discuss liberal education intelligently we must begin by asking what it is. Otherwise we cannot say whether it is improv ing or declining, or even whether it is good. Socrates' lesson that we can clarify nothing about a matter until we consider what it is is at once commonsensical and troubling.
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Liberating Liberation Theologies

Philosophy and Theology, 2013
J. Angelo Corlett, Marisa Diaz-Waian
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The Liberal Liberal Arts

symploke, 2008
After reading Michael Berube' s " reply to academe's conservative critics" and the numerous reviews and blog postings that appeared shortly after the publication of What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, I confess to some trepidation in writing a review of it for symploke. First, because so much of the waterfront has been covered already.
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