Liberal Neutrality: Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

Alexa Zellentin

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Liberal Neutrality

Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

Alexa Zellentin

In the series Ideen & Argumente

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255195

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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.

One of the most urgent issues in modern democracy
Arguments for a complex and heatly debated topic
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Alexa Zellentin, Universität Graz, Austria.

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1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Defining liberal neutrality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Political and Religious Foundations and Think Tanks, Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 182
Keywords: Neutrality; Liberalism; Liberty; Equality; Rawls; John

eBook

Published: August 31, 2012
ISBN: 9783110255195

Hardcover

Published: August 17, 2012
ISBN: 9783110255171