Jonathan Quong’s Liberalism without Perfection (2011) is a highly impressive defense of Rawlsian anti-perfectionism. In the present article, I will concentrate sustainedly on a central strand of Quong’s critique of Joseph Raz’s autonomy-centered liberal perfectionism. Rightly taking Raz to have offered the most elaborate and prominent version of autonomy-centered perfectionism in the contemporary debates over such matters, Quong devotes much of the first half of his book to contesting a number of Raz’s positions. This article will defend Raz against one of Quong’s chief objections, an allegation of internal inconsistency.
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