ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the only proper way to do is to turn from mechanical, methodological individualism to moral individualism. Liberal political emphasis on autonomy, equality and pluralism protects individual citizens against the suppression of the liberal state. The true liberal identity is related to the metaphysical idea/ideal that the humanist tradition has on a moral agency. True liberal moral identity can, nevertheless, be realized only, when individuals can identify themselves as actual political and moral decision-makers and learn to critically evaluate and revaluate the values they have adopted within a liberal society and as members of whatever social collectives they happen to belong to at any given time. The maintenance of value pluralism in liberal political order requires that we as the citizens learn to make a distinction between the idea of cultural identity and the ideal of moral personhood.
