Toward a Fictionless Liberalism  *

Joseph Agassi

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Toward a Fictionless Liberalism^*

Joseph Agassi^*

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Faculty of Humanities

York University Toronto

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This Companion centers on the fictitious social contract that can be used to justify liberalism. As justification, the theory of the contract either fully justifies a regime as liberal or it fully condemns it as illiberal. This conflicts with the common recognition that liberalism is a matter of degree. John Rawls is taken as the leading light; yet at best the Companion manages to picture him as well-intended but hopelessly confusing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-91
Number of pages	15
Journal	Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393115612035
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

Keywords

Degrees of liberalism
Democracy
Hayek
Liberal Nationalism
Liberalism
Machiavelli
Popper
Popper
Rawls
Social contract

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