Freedom within the "Ordnung": Liberal grounds for toleration of Amish culture

It is remarkable that Will Kymlicka, whose works "Liberalism, Community and Culture" and "Multicultural Citizenship" have mounted, on liberal grounds, a vigorous defense of the rights of minority cultures, nevertheless fails to extend principled toleration to Amish culture. The present argument is c oncerned to indicate that Amish culture is not as restrictive as suggested in Kymlicka's portrayal, to examine the conception of culture which leads h im to this unfortunate exclusion and to indicate that the situation of the Amish provides an archetype of the appropriate relationship between liberal democracies and non-liberal minority cultures.