Liberal Neutrality

Treating Citizens as Free and Equal
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-025517-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Ideen & Argumente

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.

Zielgruppe

Political and Religious Foundations and Think Tanks, Academics, I

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zellentin, Alexa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Über Autor(innen)

Alexa Zellentin, Universität Graz, Austria.