{"title":"Living According to Conscience","authors":"E. Baccarini, Julija Perhat","doi":"10.20901/pm.58.4.02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the proposal of Chandran Kukathas engaged in one of the goals ofliberal theories: the protection of freedom of conscience. Kukathas proposesthe metaphor of a liberal archipelago where different communities are sovereignin enforcing their worldview on their territory. We share Kukathas’sintention to strongly protect freedom of conscience, but we think that Kukathas’stheory fails to adequately protect it. In Kukathas’s view, freedom ofconscience is protected through freedom of association and the related freedomto exit an association. But freedom of exit, intended only as a right notto be coerced when one wants to leave, is insufficient. It must be sustained bythe provision of capabilities to leave that one can exercise, as well as by capabilitiesto evaluate her condition. We discuss, then, a more promising proposalof an egalitarian libertarian archipelago proposed by Michael Otsuka. Afterexplaining why this system isn’t sufficiently stable, we conclude that the constitutionalegalitarian liberal state is a better candidate.","PeriodicalId":43401,"journal":{"name":"Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Politicka Misao-Croatian Political Science Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.58.4.02","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We discuss the proposal of Chandran Kukathas engaged in one of the goals ofliberal theories: the protection of freedom of conscience. Kukathas proposesthe metaphor of a liberal archipelago where different communities are sovereignin enforcing their worldview on their territory. We share Kukathas’sintention to strongly protect freedom of conscience, but we think that Kukathas’stheory fails to adequately protect it. In Kukathas’s view, freedom ofconscience is protected through freedom of association and the related freedomto exit an association. But freedom of exit, intended only as a right notto be coerced when one wants to leave, is insufficient. It must be sustained bythe provision of capabilities to leave that one can exercise, as well as by capabilitiesto evaluate her condition. We discuss, then, a more promising proposalof an egalitarian libertarian archipelago proposed by Michael Otsuka. Afterexplaining why this system isn’t sufficiently stable, we conclude that the constitutionalegalitarian liberal state is a better candidate.
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“Politička misao” je akademski časopis za politologiju i srodne discipline, koji od 1964. godine izdaje Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Časopis je u pola stoljeća izlaženja stekao reputaciju središnjeg akademskog politološkog časopisa u Hrvatskoj i šire, naročito u nekadašnjoj Jugoslaviji, te u regiji koju čine post-jugoslavenske zemlje. “Politička misao” objavljuje priloge iz područja političkih znanosti i političkih studija općenito, odnosno iz svih poddisciplina politologije: političke teorije, međunarodnih odnosa, komparativne politike, hrvatske politike, javne politike, područnih studija, političke komunikacije, obrambenih i sigurnosnih studija i dr. Također, objavljujemo i članke iz područja koje nije moguće jednoznačno klasificirati po njihovoj pripadnosti samo jednoj disciplini nego se nalaze na „granici“ između dviju ili više disciplina: političke povijesti, ekonomske politike, političke filozofije, političke sociologije, političke psihologije, medijskih i kulturalnih studija i sl. Kao izdanje Fakulteta političkih znanosti u Zagrebu, objavljujemo i članke koji su neposredno vezani uz studijske programe na tom fakultetu. “Politička misao” je posebno zainteresirana za radove o hrvatskoj politici i društvu, za radove koji analiziraju Hrvatsku u globalnom kontekstu, kao i za radove koji istražuju politiku i društvo na Balkanu i u Jugoistočnoj Europi, u Europskoj uniji, u susjedstvu Europske unije, te na Mediteranu – regijama s kojima Hrvatska ima neposredni dodir.