Diluted Liberalisms and Emaciated Neutralities

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" Diluted Liberalisms and Emaciated Neutralities "
Michael Freeden

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083242
Doc. No	:	LA126871
Call No	:	‭10.1163/25892525-00101006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Michael Freeden
Title & Author	:	Diluted Liberalisms and Emaciated Neutralities [Article]\ Michael Freeden
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Secular Studies
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1
Page No	:	92–103
Abstract	:	Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion focuses on a philosophical understanding of liberalism infused with the constitutional and legal characteristics of the USA. It cannot, however, contain other weighty patterns of liberal thinking evident in actual and commonly prevalent thought-practices, irreducible to freedom and equality alone. The free development of individuality is also fundamental to a humanist liberal version, and it now entails the right of religious believers to protection from psychological and emotional harm in order to secure their flourishing. Emotional intensity, group identity and the power of religious rhetoric are factors to be considered both in regulating and protecting religious practices and discourse in a liberal society. I conclude with doubts on the viability of the liberal precept of neutrality. Laborde’s Liberalism’s Religion focuses on a philosophical understanding of liberalism infused with the constitutional and legal characteristics of the USA. It cannot, however, contain other weighty patterns of liberal thinking evident in actual and commonly prevalent thought-practices, irreducible to freedom and equality alone. The free development of individuality is also fundamental to a humanist liberal version, and it now entails the right of religious believers to protection from psychological and emotional harm in order to secure their flourishing. Emotional intensity, group identity and the power of religious rhetoric are factors to be considered both in regulating and protecting religious practices and discourse in a liberal society. I conclude with doubts on the viability of the liberal precept of neutrality.
Descriptor	:	emotion
Descriptor	:	harm
Descriptor	:	individuality
Descriptor	:	liberalism
Descriptor	:	neutrality
Descriptor	:	religion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/25892525-00101006‬