Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Martín. Carlos Nino’s Liberalism: between Perfectionism and Comunitarianism. Anal. filos. [online]. 2015, vol.35, n.1, pp.65-78. ISSN 1851-9636.

In this paper I attempt to prove that Nino does not succeed in developing a fully antiperfectionist account of liberalism as an answer to the communitarian challenge. I begin with a reconstruction of Nino’s diagnosis of the communitarian challenge to liberalism and point out that, in order to answer it he commits himself to a particular conception of the good based on the idea of autonomous self-realization. In the next section I develop the way by which that conception of the good shapes Nino’s liberalism. I further challenge his liberalism with a mental experiment designed to asses if it is capable of blocking several perfectionist State policies. In the last section I offer some brief remarks on the way the adoption of a particular conception of the good limits the antiperfectionist scope of Nino’s liberalism.

Keywords : Autonomy; Comprehensive liberalism; Perfectionism.

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