Final paper (without footnotes) for Political Liberalism, Prof. B. Douglass, Georgetown University, Fall 1997

I. Political liberalism and universalism
Problems today
II. The aims of this paper
III. The beginning: essence and equality
To sum it up

IV. David Gauthier, disciple of Hobbes
 Why agree to Morals by Agreement?

V. Richard Rorty 
No sense, no essence
Human solidarity: the new enchantment
Enchanted with himself, Rorty goes world-wide
Solidarity through fiction: a critique
The problem of interpretation
Liberal institutions endangered
The force of Rorty’s argument - conversing with Milosevic
Rorty: Liberalism’s ultimate messenger

VI. Final Thoughts
The universal dictate of freedom
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