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https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.58.4.02
Living According to Conscience
Elvio Baccarini
orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-9859
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Rijeka
Julija Perhat
orcid.org/0000-0003-3424-9421
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Rijeka
Sažetak
We discuss the proposal of Chandran Kukathas engaged in one of the goals ofliberal theories: the protection of freedom of conscience. Kukathas proposesthe metaphor of a liberal archipelago where different communities are sovereignin enforcing their worldview on their territory. We share Kukathas’sintention to strongly protect freedom of conscience, but we think that Kukathas’stheory fails to adequately protect it. In Kukathas’s view, freedom ofconscience is protected through freedom of association and the related freedomto exit an association. But freedom of exit, intended only as a right notto be coerced when one wants to leave, is insufficient. It must be sustained bythe provision of capabilities to leave that one can exercise, as well as by capabilitiesto evaluate her condition. We discuss, then, a more promising proposalof an egalitarian libertarian archipelago proposed by Michael Otsuka. Afterexplaining why this system isn’t sufficiently stable, we conclude that the constitutionalegalitarian liberal state is a better candidate.
Ključne riječi
Autonomy; Equality; Archipelago Liberalism; Freedom of Conscience; Freedom of Exit
Hrčak ID:
265651
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Datum izdavanja:
23.11.2021.
Posjeta: 1.186 *