This book seeks an answer to the question: what is the principled basis of a free society marked by cultural diversity and group loyalties? It contends that a free society is an open society whose fundamental principle is the principle of freedom of association. It advances an idea of a liberal archipelago which provides a better metaphor of the free society.
Keywords: free society, freedom of association, liberal archipelago
Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199257546 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/019925754X.001.0001 |