Says the Other Chris Wolfe in his book Natural Law Liberalism:
"Raz is a liberal. However, he is unlike many other liberal theorists (e.g., Ronald Dworkin) in his straightforward assertion that autonomy is not an unqualified good. He says that “the good life is a successful autonomous life, that is life consisting in the successful pursuit of valuable activities and relationships largely chosen by the person involved.” The assertion that autonomy is successful only if used for valuable activities makes Raz a distinctly atypical liberal.
Raz is also, however, firm in his adherence to the “harm” principle: he is opposed to coercive moral paternalism. Government should not coercively restrain moral autonomy even when it is used to pursue activities that are not morally valuable, as long as other people are not relatively directly harmed. His argument in “Liberty and Trust” is another part of his effort to defend this combination of perfectionism and contemporary liberal commitment to the harm principle."
OMG! A non-democrat (I'm assuming.) I call myself a non-democrat 'cause the republican party if full of frauds, and, of course, the democrat party was hijacked years ago. I'm not trying to define you, but myself, I guess. I will look forward to reading some of your future posts. BTW, my substack blog is A Beautiful Spleen. Best!
Says the Other Chris Wolfe in his book Natural Law Liberalism:
"Raz is a liberal. However, he is unlike many other liberal theorists (e.g., Ronald Dworkin) in his straightforward assertion that autonomy is not an unqualified good. He says that “the good life is a successful autonomous life, that is life consisting in the successful pursuit of valuable activities and relationships largely chosen by the person involved.” The assertion that autonomy is successful only if used for valuable activities makes Raz a distinctly atypical liberal.
Raz is also, however, firm in his adherence to the “harm” principle: he is opposed to coercive moral paternalism. Government should not coercively restrain moral autonomy even when it is used to pursue activities that are not morally valuable, as long as other people are not relatively directly harmed. His argument in “Liberty and Trust” is another part of his effort to defend this combination of perfectionism and contemporary liberal commitment to the harm principle."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/natural-law-liberalism/contemporary-liberalism-and-autonomy-ii-joseph-raz-on-trust-and-citizenship/AB827A5338F2ADD45918A77CF557DF7E
OMG! A non-democrat (I'm assuming.) I call myself a non-democrat 'cause the republican party if full of frauds, and, of course, the democrat party was hijacked years ago. I'm not trying to define you, but myself, I guess. I will look forward to reading some of your future posts. BTW, my substack blog is A Beautiful Spleen. Best!