- ‘Liberalism holds to particular conceptions of the good like any other political theory or ideology’. Do you agree?
- Dworkin, Ronald, Liberalism, in A Matter of Principle, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985, ch. 8.
- Will Kymlicka, Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality, Ethics, vol. 99, no. 4 (July, 1989), pp. 883-905.
- De Marneffe, Peter, Liberalism, Liberty, and Neutrality, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 19, no. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 253-274.
- Berlin, Isaiah, Four Essays on Liberty, London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Dworkin, Ronald, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Evans, Mark (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
- Galston, William, Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- Goodin, Robert E. & Andrew Reeve (eds), Liberal Neutrality, London: Routledge, 1989.
- Kymlicka, Will, Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, ch. 3.
- Meadowcroft, James (ed.), The Liberal Political Tradition: Contemporary Reappraisals, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1991.
- Nagel, Thomas, Equality and Partiality, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Quong, Jonathan, Liberalism Without Perfection, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Rawls, John, Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
- Raz, Joseph, The Morality of Freedom, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
- Sandel, Michael (ed.), Liberalism and its Critics, New York: New York University Press, 1984.
- ‘Because it gives priority to the autonomy of the individual, liberalism cannot acknowledge the significance of multiculturalism’. Do you agree?
- 'Socialism and liberalism can be rendered compatible only by abandoning the essence of each.' Discuss.
- Is liberal conservatism a contradiction in terms?
- Is there a distinctive liberal conception of the good life?
- 'Only liberals really care about freedom.' Should either conservatives or socialists be willing to concede this? (Answer with reference to conservatives, or to socialists, but not to both.)
- Do you agree that civil disobedience is possible only within a liberal state?
- 'Liberalism aims to create a politics without power—therein lies its fatal flaw.'
- Is 'green liberalism' a contradiction in terms?
- 'Whatever is of value in socialist thought has been absorbed into egalitarian liberalism.' Discuss.
- Is liberalism too individualistic?
- Is it consistent with liberal principles for the state to promote patriotism?
- 'Liberalism for the liberals; cannibalism for the cannibals.' Discuss.