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“The end of fear is only a good thing, to liberals, if it comes about in a way that respects other liberal values. Hence, an appeal to it does not get us very far in isolating a distinctive core of liberal belief.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Kahan’s Liberalism | American Political Thought: Vol 14, No 2
Abstract This review essay analyzes Alan Kahan’s Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism. In so doing, it draws some general lessons about liberalism and its historiography as well. It ...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“The end of fear is only a good thing, to liberals, if it comes about in a way that respects other liberal values. Hence, an appeal to it does not get us very far in isolating a distinctive core of liberal belief.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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From @eschwitz.bsky.social (eschwitz.substack.com/p/the-253-mo...), the top 20 cited-in-most-entries-of-SEP works published between 1900-2024. Not a surprising list - liberal political philosophy and a sort of analytic language-epistemology-metaphysics core being most influential seems about right.
![1. (127 citing entries) Rawls, John, 1971, A Theory of Justice
2. (92) Kripke, Saul, 1972, Naming and Necessity
3. (79) Parfit, Derek, 1984, Reasons and Persons
4. (72) Nozick, Robert, 1974, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
5. (71) Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953 [2001], Philosophical Investigations
6. (70) Lewis, David, 1986, On the Plurality of Worlds
7. (69) Quine, W. V. O., 1960. Word and Object
8. (67) Scanlon, T. M., 1998, What We Owe to Each Other
9. (58) Kuhn, Thomas S., 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
10. (57) Rawls, John, 1996, Political Liberalism](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iq6aw4tscf5n5oplggiyjfyl/bafkreieoyg3rlmg5bafnlvs2nqwniomiwphbl45jwsasd5qwqt6r5wcj5a@jpeg)
March 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
From @eschwitz.bsky.social (eschwitz.substack.com/p/the-253-mo...), the top 20 cited-in-most-entries-of-SEP works published between 1900-2024. Not a surprising list - liberal political philosophy and a sort of analytic language-epistemology-metaphysics core being most influential seems about right.
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