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Liberal Neutrality

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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 involv...
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  • 17 August 2012
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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.

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Price: $157.99
Pages: 192
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 17 August 2012
ISBN: 9783110255171
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PHI005000 PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHI012000 PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval
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Alexa Zellentin, Universität Graz, Austria.