Vol. 35 No. 1 (2015): Homenaje a Carlos S. Nino I
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Carlos Nino’s Liberalism: between Perfectionism and Comunitarianism

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  • Martín Oliveira
Martín Oliveira
Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET - Grupo de Filosofía Política
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.2015.48

Published 2015-05-01

Keywords

  • Autonomy,
  • Comprehensive liberalism,
  • Perfectionism
  • Autonomía,
  • Liberalismo comprehensivo,
  • Perfeccionismo
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Abstract

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.

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