Mill, neutrality and inconsistency: "harm" and neutrality; "Utilitarianism" versus "On Liberty"; pleasure, conformism and the "good of humanity". Hayek's libertarian neutrality: "spontaneous order" and the value of liberty; the empirical case for liberty; the conservative case for liberty; Hayek's putative Kantism; Hayek's inconsistency. Challenges to neutrality I - Liberalism with a moral foundation: the idea of "character"; Green on "character"; Hobhouse's "harmonic principle"; Green, Hobhouse and the moral foundation of liberalism. Challenges to neutrality II - Ethical liberalism and contemporary debates: Galston, Reiman Machan - contemporary advocates of a liberal "good"; the anomalous liberalism of Richard Rorty; "political liberalism", the "liberal/communitarian" debate and conservatism - Bellamy, Rorty and Oakeshott. Liberalism's neutrality - the evolution of an illusion; a viable liberalism?
