There is danger in speaking so generally about liberalism, a danger that has often plagued feminist debates. Liberalism is not a single position but a family of positions; Kantian liberalism is profoundly different from classical Utilitarian liberalism, and both of these from the Utilitarianism currently dominant in neoclassical economics.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.