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Liberal Neutrality

Author : Alexa Zellentin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110255195

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Liberal neutrality has two underlying intuitions and therefore two distinct elements. On the one hand it refers to the intuition that there are matters the state has no business getting involved in. On the other hand it is motivated by the idea that the state ought to treat citizens as equals and show equal respect for their different cenceptions of the good life. This book defends this two-fold understanding of neutrality with reference to Rawls’ conception of citizens as free and equal persons. Treating citizens as equals requires the state to grant its citizens equal political rights and also to ensure that these rights have “fair value”. Given the danger that cultural bias undermines the equal standing of citizens, the state has to ensure procedures of political decision making that are able to take citizens’ different conceptions into account.

Liberal Neutrality

Author : Robert E. Goodin,Andrew Reeve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Apathy
ISBN : UCAL:B4964804

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Liberal Neutrality by Robert E. Goodin,Andrew Reeve Pdf

Is the liberal state neutral? Can it be? Should it be? These are key questions for the twenty first century. These leading authors focus on the implications of neutrality for particular social and political institutions. This book is of interest to students and lecturers of political theory and philosophy.

Liberal Neutrality

Author : Robert E. Goodin,Andrew Reeve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429823541

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Liberal Neutrality by Robert E. Goodin,Andrew Reeve Pdf

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions. This not only identifies what neutrality involves logically, but also exposes the practical difficulties that may be encountered in pursuing it. In some cases, such close examination shows that neutrality is not desirable, and in others that it is attainable only within certain limits. Although neutrality has become a fashionable term in political theory, this is the only volume to subject the idea to systematic scrutiny. It will be useful not only to specialists in diverse disciplines – political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, lawyers and educationalists.

Against Perfectionism

Author : Steven Lecce
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802094476

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Against Perfectionism defends neutralist liberalism as the most appropriate political morality for democratic societies.

Perfectionism and Neutrality

Author : Klosko,Wall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780585466552

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Perfectionism and Neutrality by Klosko,Wall Pdf

Over the past twenty years, the debate between neutrality and perfectionism has been at the center of political philosophy. Now Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory brings together classic papers and new ideas on both sides of the discussion. Editors George Klosko and Steven Wall provide a substantive introduction to the history and theories of perfectionism and neutrality, expertly contextualizing the essays and making the collection accessible to everyone interested in the interaction between morals and the state.

Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality

Author : Richard Bellamy,Martin Hollis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135232054

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Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality by Richard Bellamy,Martin Hollis Pdf

The crisis of liberalism is in its claim to endorse neutral procedures that allow individuals and groups to pursue their own good, when the very possibility of such neutrality is affected by the growth of plural societies, and resulting divisions of loyalty. This collection explores this crisis.

Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor

Author : Gina Schouten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192542458

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Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor by Gina Schouten Pdf

This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled, and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political intervention, further eroding of the gendered division of labor will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand in need of another kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on their own conceptions of the good, questions of legitimacy arise. Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek collective political solutions to our shared social problems, given that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix it. The interventions in question would effectively subsidize gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly demanding theory of liberal legitimacy.

Liberal Neutrality

Author : Robert E. Goodin,Andrew Reeve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415001455

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Is the liberal state neutral? Can it be? Should it be? These are key questions for the twenty first century. These leading authors focus on the implications of neutrality for particular social and political institutions. This book is of interest to students and lecturers of political theory and philosophy.

Political Neutrality

Author : Roberto Merrill,Daniel Weinstock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137319203

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Political Neutrality by Roberto Merrill,Daniel Weinstock Pdf

The topic of neutrality on the good is linked rather closely to the ideal of political liberalism as formulated by John Rawls. Here internationally renowned authors, in several cases among the most prominent names to be found in contemporary political theory, present a collection of ten essays on the idea of liberal neutrality.

Liberal Neutrality and State Support for Religion

Author : Leni Franken
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319289441

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Liberal Neutrality and State Support for Religion by Leni Franken Pdf

This book focuses on the financing of religions, examining some European church-state models, using a philosophical methodology. The work defends autonomy-based liberalism and elaborates how this liberalism can meet the requirements of liberal neutrality. The chapters also explore religious education and the financing of institutionalized religion. This volume collates the work of top scholars in the field. Starting from the idea that autonomy-based liberalism is an adequate framework for the requirement of liberal neutrality, the author elaborates why a liberal state can support religions and how she should do this, without violating the principle of neutrality. Taking into account the principle of religious freedom and the separation of church and state, this work explores which criteria the state should take into account when she actively supports religions, faith-based schools and religious education. A number of concrete church-state models, including hands-off, religious accommodation and the state church are evaluated, and the book gives some recommendations in order to optimize those church-state models, where needed. Practitioners and scholars of politics, law, philosophy and education, especially religious education, will find this work of particular interest as it has useful guidelines on policies and practices, as well as studies of church-state models.

Moral Pluralism and Legal Neutrality

Author : Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400919280

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Moral Pluralism and Legal Neutrality by Wojciech Sadurski Pdf

lt is a commonplace that law and morality intersect and interpenetrate in all the areas of legal decision-making; that in order to make sense of constitutional, statutory or common-law questions, judges and other legal decision-makers must first resolve certain philosophical issues which include moral judgments of right and wrang_ This is particularly evident with regard to constitutional interpretation, especially when constitutions give a mandate for the protection of the substantive norms and values entrenched as constitutional rights. In these Situations, as a leading contemporary legal philosopher observed, the "Constitution fuses legal and moral issues, by making the validity of a law depend on an answer to complex moral 1 problems". But the need for substantive value elucidation is not confined, of course, only to constitutional interpretation under Bills of Rights. This, however, immediately raises a dilemma stemming from the moral diversity and pluralism of modern liberal societies. How can law remain sensitive to this pluralism and yet provide clear answers to the problems which call for a legal resolution? Sharply conflicting values in modern societies clash in the debates over the death penalty, abortion, homosexuality, separation of state and religion, the scope of the freedom of the press, or affirmative action. lt would often be difficult to discern a broader consensus within which these clashes of values operate, unless this consensus were described in such vague terms as to render it practically meaningless.

Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor

Author : Gina Schouten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198813071

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Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor by Gina Schouten Pdf

This book defends progressive political interventions to erode the gendered division of labor as legitimate exercises of coercive political power. The gendered division of labor is widely regarded as the linchpin of gender injustice. The process of gender equalization in domestic and paid labor allocations has stalled, and a growing number of scholars argue that, absent political intervention, further eroding of the gendered division of labor will not be forthcoming anytime soon. Certain political interventions could jumpstart the stalled gender revolution, but beyond their prospects for effectiveness, such interventions stand in need of another kind of justification. In a diverse, liberal state, reasonable citizens will disagree about what makes for a good life and a good society. Because a fundamental commitment of liberalism is to limit political intrusion into the lives of citizens and allow considerable space for those citizens to act on their own conceptions of the good, questions of legitimacy arise. Legitimacy concerns the constraints we must abide by as we seek collective political solutions to our shared social problems, given that we will disagree, reasonably, both about what constitutes a problem and about what costs we should be willing to incur to fix it. The interventions in question would effectively subsidize gender egalitarian lifestyles at a cost to those who prefer to maintain a traditional gendered division of labor. In a pluralistic, liberal society where many citizens reasonably resist the feminist agenda, can we legitimately use scarce public resources to finance coercive interventions to subsidize gender egalitarianism? This book argues that they can, and moreover, that they can even by the lights of political liberalism, a particularly demanding theory of liberal legitimacy.

Liberalism’s Religion

Author : Cécile Laborde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674976269

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Liberalism’s Religion by Cécile Laborde Pdf

Cécile Laborde argues that religion is more than a statement of belief or a moral code. It refers to comprehensive ways of life, theories of justice, modes of association, and vulnerable collective identities. By disaggregating these dimensions, she addresses questions about whether Western secularism and religion can be applied more universally.

Social Justice in the Liberal State

Author : Bruce Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300158076

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Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce Ackerman Pdf

An original and compelling vision of a just society“A ‘new view’ of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will ‘challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy.’ ”—The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of a Certificate of Merit for the American Bar Association's 1981 Gavel Award for outstanding public serviceFirst published in 1980 and continuously in print ever since, Bruce Ackerman's classic Social Justice in the Liberal State offers a new foundation for liberal political theory— a world in which each of us may live his or her own life in his or her own way, without denying the same right to others. Full of provocative discussions of issues ranging from education to abortion, it makes fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the future of the liberal democratic state. “Professor Ackerman has tackled age-old problems of social justice with the refreshing technique of a series of dialogues in which the proponent of a position must either confront his opponent with an answer, constrained by the three principles of rationality, consistency, and neutrality, or submit to a checkmate. The author’s ability to combine earthiness with extreme subtlety in framing the dialogues has produced a novel, mind-stretching book.”—Henry J. Friendly, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit“What limits should we place on genetic manipulation? How many children should we have? How should we regulate abortions and adoptions? What rights does the community have, what rights do parents have in the education of children? What rights do children have? What resources must we leave to future generations? To see all these as questions of distributive justice is to connect them in a new way (and to make) a significant contribution.”—Michael Walzer, The New Republic “The breadth of the attack on the fundamental issues of man and society is impressive.”—Foreign Affairs

Liberal Purposes

Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521422507

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Liberal Purposes by William A. Galston Pdf

A major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman, who believe that the essence of liberalism is neutrality.