
	Where results make sense

Topic: Liberal egalitarian

Related Topics

John Randolph Club

Hobart, Australia

Poll tax riot

Electronic switching system

Alexander Glazounov

Zone Bass

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document
		Liberal egalitarians typically believe that justice requires those who are lucky through no merit of their own to share the material benefits of their uncourted good fortune with those who are blamelessly worse off.
		Liberalism's rejection of the notion that the state is an apt religious or moral tutor historically has been one of its defining features, and it is one that most liberals wish to preserve.
		Professor Murphy argues in his Commentary that this account of liberal egalitarian commitments with respect to distributive justice is too narrow and that liberal egalitarianism also fairly encompasses theories that tailor the allocation of social resources to the well-being of a community's poorly-off members, regardless of the cause of their low level of welfare.
	org.elon.edu /justice/fire/rakowskitrans.htm (18316 words)

	[No title]
		But the comparative moral, material, and political egalitarianism that prevailed at the founding among moderately propertied white men was surrounded by an array of other fixed, ascriptive systems of unequal status, all largely unchallenged by the American revolutionaries.2 Men were thought naturally suited to rule over women, within both the family and the polity.
		Yet Pateman acknowledges that the premise of classical liberal contract theory--that all people are "naturally free and equal"--is potentially "subversive of all authority relations, including conjugal relations." She contends, correctly, that early liberal theorists like Locke responded by asserting women were not naturally equal to men.
		First, on this view, purely liberal and republican conceptions of civic identity are seen as frequently unsatisfy~ng to many Americans, because they contain elements that threaten, rather than affirm, sincere, reputable beliefs in the propriety of the privileged positions that whites, Christianity, Anglo-Saxon traditions, and patriarchy have had in the United States.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~PUBLIC/temp1/temp1/smith1.txt (11182 words)

	Edward Feser on Amy Gutmann’s Identity in Democracy on National Review Online
		Modern liberalism thus seems to its critics to be an incoherent mess, and to entail in practice the negation of liberty and equality as those terms are understood by everyone but liberals themselves.
		Gutmann wants to show that liberals are not the atomistic individualists they are accused of being, that liberalism is fully compatible with a recognition that individuals flourish best in the context of private associations, churches, and other “identity groups” defined by common aims and values.
		For her there is only the liberal’s high-minded concern with such moral ideals on one hand and the grubby and unreasonable prejudices of certain religious and cultural traditionalists on the other.
	www.nationalreview.com /books/feser200507051415.asp (985 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although liberal democratic ideas and practices have been more potent in America than elsewhere, American politics is best seen as expressing the interaction of multiple political traditions, including liberalism, republicanism, and ascriptive forms of Americanism, which have collectively comprised American political culture, without any constituting it as a whole.
		Thus, Carole Pateman objects when other feminists treat liberal capitalism and patriarchy as two systems that are"intertwined" but "relatively autonomous." She insists that liberal thought has always had a patriarchal structure that is essential to it.
		First, on this view, purely liberal and republican conceptions of civic identity are seen as frequently unsatisfying to many Americans, because they contain elements that threaten, rather than affirm, sincere, reputable beliefs in the propriety of the privileged positions that whites, Christianity, Anglo-Saxon traditions, and patriarchy have had in the United States.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/smith1.txt (13889 words)

	[No title]
		The liberal nature and historical performance of different forms of democracy are analyzed.
		It recognizes the existence of two peoples, each with a legitimate claim to the very same land: the Jews, who demand the right to return to their ancient homeland from which were dispossessed by force, and the Arab inhabitants of this land.
		This can be achieved within an American-type democracy, in which the principle of strictly egalitarian participation of all citizens in all issues has been wisely sacrificed in favor of a realistic concern for the specific needs of the parts.
	www.liberal.org.il /peace.txt (3630 words)

	Rethinking Liberal Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this paper I want to address a particular objection to John Rawls’s version of egalitarian liberalism that has great currency in theoretical educational circles: that liberalism presupposes a conception of the self that is radically disassociated from its historical and social situation.
		Liberals do indeed use, at the core of their theory, a concept of the person that focusses on what persons have in common rather than on what distinguishes them.
		The liberal individual will reflect on her traits and commitments so that she can discover what her encumbrances are, and which to embrace and which to ameliorate.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /realschoolfield.htm (5901 words)

	BEARS: FREEMAN ON KEKES
		Egalitarians hold that there are one or more morally relevant respects in which individuals ought to be equal (in welfare, basic capabilities, fulfillment of basic needs, or resources such as basic liberties, opportunities, and income and wealth).
		The liberal egalitarianism Kekes attacks assigns priority to equal basic freedoms, and then to fair equal opportunities, so society is restricted in what it may legitimately do to rectify many inequalities.
		Liberal egalitarianism does not require "compensation" to those who are worse off because of these natural accidents or misfortunes.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Philosophy/bears/9802free.html (2427 words)

	Life and My Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Egalitarianism is the creed of tyrants and the dream of childlike minds.
		Egalitarianism actually has nothing to do with equality or parity of outcomes, that is the goal of socialists.
		In egalitarian societies, people are free to make the best of their lives with their own God-given talents, and are not supposed to be held back by the machinations of the state that favor one person's rights over another's.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/814519/posts (690 words)

	20th WCP: What is to be Distributed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thus, for example, food is not important in and of itself; it is important because it allows one to stay alive and healthy and, thus, to be able to perform other acts and pursue other goals the individual deems worthwhile.
		As Arneson puts it: "The argument for equal opportunity rather than straight equality is simply that it is morally fitting to hold individuals responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their voluntary choices, and in particular for that portion of these consequences that involves their own achievement of welfare or gain or loss of resources.
		But I think it is also important to realize that in real world circumstances many of these competing egalitarian theories will be pretty much indistinguishable from one another in that they will all, presumably, choose more or less the same social policies given the same empirical assumptions.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Poli/PoliPeff.htm (2723 words)

	Jabotinsky Liberal Approach to the Jewish-Arab Conflict
		Fortunately, however, there are other, more liberal and more stable, forms of democracy (4).
		Jabotinsky's solution, while totally at total variance with the Oslo agreement, is in complete harmony with the spirit of liberal European peace and the way to build it by facts and not by theoretic agreements (5).
		The end of World War I was characterized by a mood of extreme pacifism and war fatigue among the victorious nations.
	www.liberal.org.il /peace.htm (2510 words)

	Communitarianism
		Liberals have picked up this mistaken assumption, positing the idea of a subject who seeks to realize an autonomously arrived-at life-plan, losing sight of the fact that critical reflection upon ones ends is nothing more than one possibility that arises when our ordinary ways of coping with things is insufficient to get things done.
		Even if liberals are wrong to deny the existence of constitutive ends — even if the philosophical justifications for a liberal form of social organization founded on the value of reflective choice are rotten to the core — there are still many, relatively pragmatic reasons for caring about rights in the modern world.
		Liberals were wrong to think they needed to provide iron-clad philosophies of the self to justify liberal politics, and communitarians were wrong to think that challenging those foundations was sufficient to undermine liberal politics.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/communitarianism (8749 words)

	EDUCATION REVIEW
		“Liberal democracy is indissolubly connected with modernism—as against postmodernism—in one crucial respect: it depends on a general belief that there is such a thing as truth, as against my truth or your truth” (p.236).
		In an era when many academics are suspicious of characterization and labels of any sort, Barry comes right out and claims to be an egalitarian liberal and then spends the next several hundred pages defining what that actually means against the backdrop of debates around multiculturalism.
		Further, they seem to feel that political liberals harbor an anachronistic attitude that accepts the injustices of the past.
	edrev.asu.edu /reviews/rev254.htm (2581 words)

	S-WoPEc: Rewarding effort
		Abstract: According to liberal egalitarian ethics, individuals should be rewarded for factors under their control, but not for factors outside their control.
		A fundamental challenge to liberal egalitarian theories of justice is how to do this without violating minimal egalitarian and liberal requirements.
		Given this, we show that it is impossible to establish a framework that is truly liberal egalitarian in all respects and that a generalized version of the egalitarian equivalent mechanism is the most plausible liberal egalitarian approach.
	swopec.hhs.se /osloec/abs/osloec2004_015.htm (212 words)

	SSRN-Immigration Justice: Beyond Liberal Egalitarian and Communitarian Perspectives by Michael Scaperlanda
		SSRN-Immigration Justice: Beyond Liberal Egalitarian and Communitarian Perspectives by Michael Scaperlanda
		Immigration Justice: Beyond Liberal Egalitarian and Communitarian Perspectives
		Part III examines the weaknesses inherent in attempts to develop a coherent and just immigration policy out of the currently fashionable liberal political theory or the communitarian response.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=229481 (323 words)

	201lec01
		Liberals accord liberty the highest value in a liberal theory.
		Modern Liberalism argues to extend state action to recognize positive obligations on the part of government to aid others, including providing the means for ensuring availability of basic functional necessities or primary goods.
		This split represented in debates between libertarian liberals (Nozick, Hayek) and egalitarian liberals (Rawls, Dworkin).
	www.philosophy.ubc.ca /faculty/russellj/201lec01.htm (708 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: Snippet Contra Feser 1
		I intend to be talking about liberal order, to which I take egalitarian liberals and classical liberal conservatives all to be committed.
		Political liberalism, of which political libertarianism is a specific instance, is intended precisely to provide a common intellectual framework from within which egalitarians, conservatives, and libertarians can constructively debate and deliberate together in public.
		The libertarian conception of liberal order differs from the welfare liberal version and the conservative versions in exactly the way you would imagine, and in exactly the way I mentioned near the end of my TCS piece.
	willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2004/08/snippet_contra.html (3948 words)

	anarchism thesis
		The argument of this thesis is that anarchism may be a theory that can enable people to realise both more equality and more freedom than they can with the help of egalitarian liberal theories.
		John Rawls's theory of justice is discussed as an example of liberal democratic and egalitarian liberal thought.
		It is argued that Rawls's egalitarian liberalism allows for substantial limits on individual freedom and equality of opportunity.
	www.antenna.nl /zin/4.English/anarchism_thesis.html (294 words)

	TaxProf Blog: Stark on The Liberty Objections to Endowment Taxation
		Conventional wisdom among contemporary liberal egalitarians is that taxing individuals according to their endowment or earnings capacity would constitute an unacceptable intrusion on basic human liberties.
		This conclusion presents the liberal egalitarian with a dilemma: she must either (1) embrace endowment taxes as a moral ideal, rejecting the liberty concerns expressed by Rawls and others, or (2) join Nozick in renouncing the ordinary taxation of earnings, a move that would substantially weaken her commitment to egalitarian outcomes.
		The purpose of the Article is not to resolve this dilemma, but rather to expose some of the tensions inherent in the liberal egalitarian framework and to suggest that consideration of these tensions is necessary to the development of a more satisfactory liberal egalitarian position on questions of taxation and distributive justice.
	taxprof.typepad.com /taxprof_blog/2005/01/stark_on_emthe_.html (932 words)

	BEYOND TOCQUEVILLE, MYRDAHL, AND HARTZ: THE MULTIPLE TRADITIONS IN AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Analysts of American politics since Tocqueville have seen the nation as a paradigmatic "liberal democratic" society, shaped most by the comparatively free and equal conditions and the Enlightenment ideals said to have prevailed at its founding.
		His point is that the founding wasn't egalitarian enough...we didn't slaughter and sink barge loads of live people like a real egalitarian liberal revolution....the French version.
		It seems back-ass to me that he rejects the "liberal persuasion" that led to his desired enlightenment while rejecting contemporaneous objections to it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/861682/posts (13721 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The anti-liberal
		He believes the liberal moral vision of a society providing equal freedom, rights, and resources to all, articulated by thinkers from Rousseau to John Rawls, is merely a "product of wishful thinking." What's more, he argues in his latest book, "The Illusions of Egalitarianism" (Cornell), it is a dangerous guide for American policy makers.
		No one can reasonably believe that murderers and their victims, or terrorists and their hostages, have the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
		IDEAS: Many liberal theorists would argue that evil activities are a result, not a cause, of social injustice -- so social justice ought to be a top priority.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/04/the_anti_liberal (512 words)

	The Dark Side of the Left
		Although equality lies at the heart of the liberal tradition, the earnest pursuit of egalitarian goals has often come at the expense of other liberal ideals.
		Ellis identifies the organizational and ideological dilemmas that caused Students for a Democratic Society to transform itself from a democratic to an elitist organization, or that allow radicals to justify illegal acts as long as they are free of self-interest.
		He explains how orthodoxy arises within a group from the need to maintain distance from a society it views as hopelessly corrupt, and how individuals committed to egalitarian causes are particularly susceptible to illiberalism--even poets like Walt Whitman, who celebrated the common people but often expressed contempt for their mundane lives.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /elldar.html (454 words)

	Study Questions on Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Chapter 3
		What pressing question did the classical liberals try to explain by means of the social contract?
		What does this suggest should be the main focus for the politics of liberal egalitarianism?
		What seems to be the most glaring omission of all the issues from which contemporary liberals like Rawls became disengaged?
	www.wku.edu /~jan.garrett/350/wkcpphl3.htm (911 words)

	Burschenschaft -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The first Burschenschaft was founded in 1815 at the University of Jena, and the movement spread all over Germany.
		The early groups were egalitarian and liberal and favoured the political unification of...
		second son of Hans Christoph von Gagern, liberal, anti-Austrian German politician and president of the 1848–49 Frankfurt National Assembly, who was one of the leading spokesmen for the Kleindeutsch (Little German) solution to German unification before and during the 1848 revolution.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018233?tocId=9018233 (382 words)

	Pravda.RU Srdja Trifkovic: The West will pay dearly for the devastation of Christianity. Islam has a wild appetite. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Washington’s strategies of foreign policy were playing up to the geo-strategic ambitions of the Muslims, throwing the small Christian nations (the Serbs, the Greek Cypriotes today, the Bulgarians and the Greeks tomorrow) to be torn to pieces by the Islamites.
		The post-Christian, liberal and egalitarian democracy of the West was trying to neutralize the influence of Islam right up to the tragic events of September 11 in the United States.
		Washington’s strategies of foreign policy were playing up to the geo-strategic ambitions of the Muslims, throwing the small Christian nations (the Serbs, the Greek Cypriotes today, the Bulgarians and the Greeks tomorrow) to be torn to pieces by the Islamites More details...
	english.pravda.ru /main/2002/01/30/26099.html (2106 words)

	rawls human rights
		States, whether liberal democratic or otherwise, are not.
		Liberal democratic peoples are, and regard themselves as, free, equal, independent and
		because they are liberal and democratic, but because they are peoples or corporate moral agents.
	web.utk.edu /~dreidy/rawlshumanrights.html (9690 words)

	Welcome to Beit Rayim Synagogue and School —— We are a Conservative egalitarian participatory Synagogue and ...
		Welcome to Beit Rayim Synagogue and School —— We are a Conservative egalitarian participatory Synagogue and Hebrew School located in Toronto, Canada and affiliated with USCJ, providing services for Shabbat, high holydays, and holidays, serving the Jews and Jewish community of Toronto, North Toronto, ork Region, Vaughan, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Stouffville, Aurora, Ontario, Canada
		We are a Conservative egalitarian Synagogue and Hebrew School affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism located in Richmond Hill Ontario Canada, serving the Jewish community of York Region.
		People come to Beit Rayim Synagogue and School for a meaningful Jewish experience for themselves and their children.
	www.beitrayim.org (370 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)