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Helfand, Michael A.

A liberalism of sincerity: Lockean toleration and the internal point of view.

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Title/Author:	A liberalism of sincerity: Lockean toleration and the internal point of view.
Author:	Helfand, Michael A.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2214.
Notes:	Adviser: Seyla Benhabib.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-06A.
Subject:	Law.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3362172
ISBN:	9781109209952

A liberalism of sincerity: Lockean toleration and the internal point of view.
Helfand, Michael A.

A liberalism of sincerity: Lockean toleration and the internal point of view. - 268 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: 2214.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2009.

Contemporary theorists have struggled to reconcile multiculturalism's concern with the collective and liberalism's focus on individualism. In advancing a new theory integrating multiculturalism and liberalism, I focus on the value of sincerity. Embraced as a political value, a duty of sincerity requires citizens to remain true to their beliefs on matters of core concern, resisting attempts by political hierarchies to impose their own views on such matters. Championing a duty of sincerity protects liberalism's individualist impulse, ensuring that citizens cannot use the legitimizing power of consent to enable regimes of intolerance.

ISBN: 9781109209952Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a Sincerity also provides the analytical link between liberalism and multiculturalism. If sincerity, as a central political value, protects individualism from lurking intolerance, then a liberal regime ought to enable its citizenry to pursue sincerity. Sincerity is an internal process through which individuals discover and interpret themselves; this occurs not simply in individual terms, but in collective ones. Indeed, an individual's internal self-understanding frequently incorporates cultural, religious and social elements. Thus, if liberalism conceives of sincerity as a political value, then it should also support culture and religion as elements of individual sincerity.
520 $a In this way, our own version of liberalism takes up the individual's internal point of view, refocusing our attention on the way in which individuals experience their perceived obligations. Thus, when examining multicultural dilemmas, it considers the perspective of the individual for whom such conflicts often look like conflicts of law. Understanding many instances of conflict in this way serves as the foundation for legal reform, beginning with a new perspective on how religious arbitration courts could promote sincerity.
520 $a I argue that John Locke was the first to understand this important link between sincerity and liberalism. Focusing on the way in which "every one is orthodox to himself," Locke argued that there are "[t]hose things that every man ought sincerely to inquire into himself...." In doing so, the individual would resist the imposition of intolerance, only following his own inward sincerity on matters of core concern. In following Locke's lead, I believe we can draft a blueprint for addressing how to resolve conflicts between liberalism and multiculturalism.
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