Can Rawlsian Containment of Hateful Viewpoints Be Effective?
While most of the literature has attempted to justify harsh and soft containment given some fundamental commitments of political liberalism, I focus on how justified forms of containment can in themselves be deemed effective. This article shows that a reading of Rawls allows for a comparison of diff...
| Published in: | Social Theory & Practice Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 681 - 708 |
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Florida State University
Oct2023
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| Summary: | While most of the literature has attempted to justify harsh and soft containment given some fundamental commitments of political liberalism, I focus on how justified forms of containment can in themselves be deemed effective. This article shows that a reading of Rawls allows for a comparison of different containment practices based on their capacity to protect the stability of liberal democracies under serious threat. And, in making it possible to compare harsh and soft containment, I evaluate immediate stability gains against citizens' judgements about their liberal democratic institutions. |
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