Liberal Neutrality
eBook - PDF

Liberal Neutrality

Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Liberal Neutrality

Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783110255171
eBook ISBN
9783110255195

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 2 Defining liberal neutrality
  4. 3 The right and the good
  5. 4 Grounding neutrality
  6. 5 Justifying the respect element
  7. 6 Justifying the fairness element
  8. 7 Implementing liberal neutrality
  9. 8 Conclusion
  10. 9 Bibliography
  11. Index