I argue that political liberals fail to work out a unanimous political principle because they avoid the problem of reasonable disagreement, whether by way of"original position" in J. Rawls or "principle of neutrality" in C. Larmore, and B. Ackerman. Political liberals are confronted with a complicated dilemma when forced to address the problem of diversity, namely, the dilemma of excluding or including conceptions of the good that falsify the original position of neutrality. In order to address the challenge of reasonable pluralism, and to overcome the liberal dilemma, I...
I argue that political liberals fail to work out a unanimous political principle because they avoid the problem of reasonable disagreement, ...