Liberal Neutrality

Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

Alexa Zellentin (Autor)

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X, 182 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover & eBook

2012
De Gruyter
978-3-11-218893-4 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to treat citizens as free and equal given their cultural differences? This book argues that the state ought to be neutral. Treating citizens as free requires justificatory neutrality. 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 the different values and beliefs of its citizens into account. Only this two-fold understanding of liberal neutrality safeguards that the formally equal political rights of citizens also have fair value.

Alexa Zellentin, Universität Graz, Austria.

Reihe/Serie	Ideen & Argumente
Zusatzinfo	Includes a print version and an ebook
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Schlagworte	Equality • Freiheit • Gleichheit • Liberalism • Liberalismus • Liberty • Neutralität • neutrality • Neutrality; Liberalism; Liberty; Equality; Rawls, John • Rawls • Rawls, John
ISBN-10	3-11-218893-4 / 3112188934
ISBN-13	978-3-11-218893-4 / 9783112188934
Zustand	Neuware