What Is the Nature of Liberalism?

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I think this speaks to an important misunderstanding that people often have about the nature of liberalism. The individual enjoys in a liberal regime should give the state a certain kind of respect for the moral atonomy, for their attempt to understand how they want to lead their lives. How do we balance the respect to our fellow citizens and the neutralii they should have with that? It's really hard to wear a motor bicycle helmet and also wear the turban, which is a deep element of seek identity for menamit ta e a question which wes probably approximately two thousand, even hundred, forty eight philosophy papers?

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and one of today's deepest thinkers about the nature of identity. His scholarly writing, journalism, and novels help us to envision a world in which our professed categories enrich rather than impoverish—or, in his terms, a world which reveres “universality plus difference.”

In this week’s conversation, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Yascha Mounk discuss neutrality as a liberal ideal, the limits of identity politics, and the merits of race-abolitionism.

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