http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20181005-151054-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/educating-citizens-choice-paternalism-2/ Educating Citizens: The Choice for Paternalism Volkmann, Uwe eng 2015-01-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Liberal political philosophy has two alternative options in principle: It can either stick to its original theorems such as the harm principle or the separation of law and morals and from here try to prove large parts of present social and political reality as wrong, illegitimate, dangerous etc. The other option is trying to adjust the original theorems to the apparent needs of modern societies, which is what I would prefer in the long run.