If Youre A Classical Liberal How Come Youre Also An Egalitarian
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Author | : Åsbjørn Melkevik |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-03-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3030379086 |
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Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state. In this book, Åsbjørn Melkevik corrects this common reading of the classical liberal tradition by introducing a theory of “rule egalitarianism”. Not only is classical liberalism compatible with social justice, but it can also help us understand why some egalitarian endeavours are an essential feature of a market society. If a necessary link exists between the classical liberal tradition and the moral and institutional dimensions of the rule of law, then this tradition is bound to uphold a substantial form of social justice. Coherence requires that classical liberals like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman adopt an authentic egalitarian program. They should ameliorate poverty and limit inequality not merely out of prudence or collective self-interest, but for the natural justice of ongoing social cooperation as well as for the impartiality of market institutions.
Author | : Mitja Sardoč |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 898 |
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ISBN | : 3031558979 |
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Author | : Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2022-09-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1000645843 |
Download Inheritance and the Right to Bequeath Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people’s lives. This motivates renewed scholarship on inheritance law by philosophy and the legal sciences. The present volume aims to contribute to some ongoing areas of inquiry while also filling some gaps in research. It is organized in a highly interdisciplinary way. In the thirteen chapters of the book, written by outstanding philosophers and legal scholars, the following questions, among others, are discussed: What is the nature of the right to bequeath? What are the social functions of bequest and inheritance? What arguments concerning justice have philosophers and legal scholars advanced in favour or against practices of bequest and inheritance? How should we think about taxing the wealth transfers that occur in bequest and inheritance? In discussing these questions, the authors break new ground and offer much needed insight into several related domains, such as the philosophy of law; legal theory; general and applied ethics; social and political philosophy; theories of justice; and the history of legal, political, and economic thought. This book will be of great interest to scholars in these areas as well as policy-makers.
Author | : G. A. Cohen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674029666 |
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This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy. In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.
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Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1991-02 |
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The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.
Author | : Guido Pincione |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2000-03-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780792360599 |
Download Rights, Equality, and Liberty Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
What are moral rights? What role do they play in liberalism? Which rights do we have? Does the language of rights impose formal constraints? Which rights and duties does equality force us to acknowledge? Are rights universal or culture-bound? How should global institutions promote human rights? These are the central questions discussed in this volume. All the contributors are leading figures in moral, legal, or political philosophy, and their papers are published here for the first time. The reader will therefore find in this volume a unique opportunity to acquire a direct acquaintance with some of the most recent developments in the above fields. Although the general tone of the contributions is polemical and rigorous, most of the material will be useful to the specialized reader as well as to the university student.
Author | : Eric Nelson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674242955 |
Download The Theology of Liberalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
Author | : Jeff Noonan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-01-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786604299 |
Download The Troubles with Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Providing a new philosophical foundation for thinking about old problems such as class inequality, this concise and accessible book explores the concept of and problems associated with democracy. Ideal for students in politics and philosophy, the book informs new structural and institutional responses to these problems.
Author | : Alexander Kaufman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108429114 |
Download Rawls's Egalitarianism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A new analysis of John Rawls's theory of distributive justice, focusing on the ways his ideas have both influenced and been misinterpreted by the current egalitarian literature.
Author | : Eamonn Butler |
Publisher | : London Publishing Partnership |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0255367082 |
Download Classical Liberalism – A Primer Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This primer aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles, personalities and key developments in classical liberalism. It is designed for students and lay readers who may understand the general concepts of social, political and economic freedom, but who would like a systematic presentation of its essential elements.