Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?
- ISBN-10
- 113948740X
- ISBN-13
- 9781139487405
- Category
- Philosophy
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-22
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- James P. Sterba, Jan Narveson
Description
Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two distinguished philosophers take up the debate. Jan Narveson argues that a political ideal of negative liberty is incompatible with any substantive ideal of equality, while James P. Sterba argues that Narveson's own ideal of negative liberty is compatible, and in fact leads to the requirements of a substantive ideal of equality. Of course, they cannot both be right. Thus, the details of their arguments about the political ideal of negative liberty and its requirements will determine which of them is right. Engagingly and accessibly written, their debate will be of value to all who are interested in the central issue of what are the practical requirements of a political ideal of liberty.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Equality and Liberty: A Defense of Radical Egalitarianism
By Kai NielsenProbably no issue is more confounding in the social policy arena or more closely argued among political philosophers than the question of the relationship between equality and liberty: are they compatible in a just society?
-
Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times
By Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn... 1939 his services to Hitler as a U-Boat captain. He was then already in a concentration camp and suffered for his religious convictions. Hitler had power and therefore, in the pastor's eyes, also authority. Thus Nie- moller's " act ...
-
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century
By Jeremy JenningsRevolution and the Republic provides a new and wide-ranging interpretation of political thought in France from the eighteenth century to the present day.
-
A Theory of Justice
By John RawlsThough the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition.
-
The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society
By James O'Toole... Il, 155 Veblen, Thorstein (1857–1929: U.S. economist), 87, 154 Wallace, Henry (1888–1965, U.S. politician), l;2 Washington, George (1732–1799; U.S. president), 69 Weber, Max (1864–1920; German sociologist and political economist), ...
-
On Justifying Democracy (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 11)
By William Nelson10 See J. Buchanan and G. Tullock, The Calculus of Consent (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1962). I shall discuss this kind of theory in ChapterVbelow. 11 This seems to be Rawls's considered view. See A.
-
Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens
By Peter LiddelPeter Liddel offers a fresh approach to the old problem of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens.
-
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
By G. A. CohenIn this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else.
-
The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law
By T.R.S. AllanAn original account of the British constitution, this book explains how the requirements of constitutional law depend on underlying considerations of legal and political theory and defends an account of the British constitution as a source ...
-
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
By David A. Reidy, Jon MandleThis volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars.