The Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law; The Faculty of Law; Philosophy Department
Room 5513
Office hours: By appointment
Tel: +972-2-5882583
The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus,
Liberalism is in crisis. Such liberalism – the political philosophy roughly characterized in terms of a commitment to individual liberty and autonomy, basic equality, some rationalist and universalist aspirations, and some version of liberal democracy – is not just, in some parts of the world, losing grounds. It has also become harder to defend it philosophically. Objections have arisen both from the right and the left, and some of these objections cannot be easily dismissed. One possible response to this predicament is to abandon liberalism altogether. But the current research project is motivated by the thought that liberalism’s underlying values and commitments remain, pretty much, true as ever. It’s just that the way to defend liberalism is not to respond to some leading objections to it in a minimal way. The way forward is to fully understand the insights underlying such objections, and re-conceive liberalism in a way that fully accommodates them. READ MORE HERE>>