Against Liberal Democracy (as a Methodological Presupposition for Political Philosophy)

Political philosophers writing about international distributive justice, war, migration, and much else often resort to the strategy of explicitly restricting their audience to those who share the values and perspective of liberal democracy. This strategy may appear to reflect a welcome modesty about the scope of argument and an acknowledgement of diversity by not presuming to speak for everyone. In reality, it introduces prejudices and biases that ought to be resisted.