Liberal neutrality and language policy From: Philosophy and Public Affairs | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Princeton University Press Fall 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

If there is one point that the critics of liberalism almost all agree upon, it is that liberal neutrality is an unappealing and perhaps incoherent doctrine. Many contemporary liberals do not endorse the idea of neutrality, and even liberals most identified with the idea, John Rawls and Ronald Dwo rkin, have backed off it in certain respects.1 In thinking about the challenges posed by cultural and linguistic diversity, the idea of neutrality seems especially unpromising. Nobody has made this point as clearly or forcefully as Will Kymlicka. "The idea that government could be neutral with respect ...