Liberty and the challenge of diversity
Those who favor liberty face a dilemma arising out of human diversity.While some groups of people will place a high value on liberty, others mayconsider it a lesser good or may value it scarcely at all. Preserving a free society by forcing everyone to value liberty runs against the spirit of freedom...
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sg-smu-ink.soss_research-41732019-09-20T03:30:42Z Liberty and the challenge of diversity KUKATHAS, Chandran Those who favor liberty face a dilemma arising out of human diversity.While some groups of people will place a high value on liberty, others mayconsider it a lesser good or may value it scarcely at all. Preserving a free society by forcing everyone to value liberty runs against the spirit of freedom;but leaving those groups who do not care for liberty to live in that way alsodiminishes liberty, if in a different way. In the end the dilemma has to beresolved in favor of tolerating even those who do not care for liberty andthreaten to undermine it. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2916 info:doi/10.1002/9781405177245.ch39 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4173/viewcontent/16_S_Liberty_Challenge_Diversity__1_.pdf Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Political Science Politics and Social Change |
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Those who favor liberty face a dilemma arising out of human diversity.While some groups of people will place a high value on liberty, others mayconsider it a lesser good or may value it scarcely at all. Preserving a free society by forcing everyone to value liberty runs against the spirit of freedom;but leaving those groups who do not care for liberty to live in that way alsodiminishes liberty, if in a different way. In the end the dilemma has to beresolved in favor of tolerating even those who do not care for liberty andthreaten to undermine it. |
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