Liberal Neutrality: Treating Citizens as Free and Equal

by Alexa Zellentin

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'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110255170
• ISBN13: 9783110255171
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary