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- Title
In Search of Universal Political Principles: Avoiding Some of Modernity's Pitfalls and Discovering the Importance of Liberal Political Order.
- Authors
Rasmussen, Douglas B.; Den Uyl, Douglas J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the importance of liberal political order and provides basis for the advancement of universal claims in politics and ethics. It offers a comparison of ethical knowledge and theoretical knowledge and objectivity and universality. It is concluded that ethics is not essentially legislative, hence, universal rules does not and should not cover every case.
- Subjects
POLITICAL ethics; UNIVERSALISM (Political science); PRACTICAL politics; OBJECTIVITY; ETHICAL absolutism
- Publication
Good Society Journal, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
1089-0017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/gso.0.0094