This article first describes a dilemma for liberalism: On the one hand restricting their own options is an important means for groups of people to shape their lives. On the other hand, group members are typically divided over whether or not to accept option-restricting solutions or policies. Should we restrict the options of all members of a group even though some consent and some do not? This ...

At the heart of Friedrich A. Hayek’s social philosophy is a regard for the socially-constituted nature of man: the individual is not taken to be asocial or pre-social, but rather it is recognized that society defines the individual. The neglect of this aspect of Hayek’s work by both liberal and communitarian, as well as libertarian, writers within political philosophy has led to his position be...

Sen’s classic social choice result supposedly demonstrates a conflict between Pareto and even minimal forms of liberalism. By providing the first direct mathematical proof of this seminal result, we underscore a significantly different interpretation: rather than conflicts among rights, Sen’s result occurs because the liberalism assumption negates the assumption that voters have transitive pref...

Abstract The prohibition and prosecution of core international crimes are understood as a liberal response to particularly cruel acts that shock the conscience humanity. But what is nature this cruelty how does it relate liberalism? Rather than seeing liberalism monolithic, we examine different relationships between logics they manifest in processes criminalization. We develop three-pronged typ...

William Davies’ The Limits of Neo-Liberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (Sage, 2014) provides a searching new investigation of the meaning and implications of the neo-liberal project. Davies identifies neo-liberalism as centrally concerned with the replacement of politics by economics. He examines the consequent efforts of economic experts to make government amenable t...

There has been a rising Islamic fundamentalism, and intolerance cases in contemporary Indonesia. The fundamentalism problem Indonesia particularly points to the Wahhābi for its puritanical ideology as root of cases. This article aims analyse Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) responses towards group. Being forefront struggle against fundamentalist groups post-New Orde...