Constitutionalizing Social Values

[RJLipkin at aol.com]

     Michael writes: "Greg has also very eloquently shown the non-neutrality of liberal (philosophical) neutrality."

   I think it is terribly important to realize that though "liberalism" is certainly not neutral, it permits more religious and other comprhensive views to exist and function in some way or other than many alternative positions.  Thus, to use a variant of Rawls' veil of ignorance.   If one did not know which religious or comprehensive positions one held in a world of many diverse and conflicting moral views, one would be likely to choose certain forms of liberalism, or risk the possiblity, if one chooses incorrectly, to find oneself in a society which has eliminated one's moral universe.

Bobby

Robert Justin Lipkin
Professor of Law
Widener University School of Law
Delaware