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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"political liberalism"”.
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Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens
… It leverages the theoretical resources of political liberalism – a substantive normative ideal of freedom and equality – to diagnose those injustices and justify measures to secure the free and equal standing of LGBTQ+ citizens. Where those theoretical resources do not exist, this thesis …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… although primarily concerned with social and political justice, and not with virtue ethics, gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some philosophers, mostly of the Aristotelian-Aquinian …
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Political liberalism, social pluralism and group conflict
This dissertation develops a political liberal approach to multiculturalism as an alternative to its dismissal by some egalitarian liberals and its celebration by some multicultural liberals. Some egalitarian liberals overstate the liberal tension with group-specific claims, disregard the role of …
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CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM
… to develop a phenomenological account for Political Liberalism. My hypothesis is that a re-articulation of the main issues in transcendental phenomenology as it relates to social philosophy, first in a genetic sense (as developed by Alfred Schutz), but also in a generative context (as …
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Political liberalism in South Africa in the 1980s and the formation of the Democratic Party
Bibliography: leaves 369-384.
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Political Theology and the Levellers: A discussion of the theological sources of the political thought of the Levellers and of some implications for modern understandings of political liberalism
The thesis establishes that the political liberty proposed by the Levellers during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s was derived from a theological doctrine of Christian liberty, rooted in Christology and Ecclesiology, and informed by various legal and philosophical traditions. The work is …
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Liberalism, Pluralism and Education
… philosophy of John Rawls as laid out in his book Political Liberalism. The first section of the thesis defends Rawls' account from its most prominent critics. In particular, I defend Rawls’ response to pluralism. Following this, I analyse the application of political liberalism to education. This …
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Respecting Citizens, Protecting Capabilities: the Role of the State in a Liberal Society
… state should not take a stand on disputed non-political issues concerning the good. The state should adopt political liberalism, thereby refraining from espousing religious or other ?comprehensive? views such as the view that men and women are innate moral equals. By doing so, Nussbaum says the …
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John Rawls ir Chantal Mouffe demokratijos projektų palyginimas /
… if the society itself is full of unavoidable political conflicts that reduces any chances of wide and inclusive consensus towards basic democratic principles? One of the main liberal theorists of XX century, John Rawls, has suggested seeking social unity by raising an idea of an overlapping …
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Legitimacy and diversity : an examination of the problem pluralism presents to the legitimacy of democratic regimes
The foundations of liberalism lie in respect for the intrinsic value of human freedom. This respect is usually expressed through the defence of the twin values of autonomy and equality. It was during the Enlightenment that liberal values acquired concrete philosophical foundations in the writing of …
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Rawls, Liberalism, and Leisure
There is a tension within liberalism between the ideal of equality on the one hand and the respect for freedom (in the form of non-interference) on the other. I shall try to show that in liberalism?s efforts to simultaneously realize its goals of freedom and equality it must ultimately settle for …
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John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
… a just regime. His later works, particularly Political Liberalism, place increased emphasis upon the Court for bringing about and securing his realistic-utopian vision of a constitutional democracy. This is highlighted by his calling the Court the exemplar of public reason; it is to take the …
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An Associational Model of Society Implicit to John Rawls's Theory of Justice
… Rawls betrays a fundamental premise of his own political liberalism, namely, the idea that individuals do not necessarily share a common interest or purpose with one another.
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Justice for Grasshoppers
… and explains why those committed to political liberalism can get on board with more radical demands, such as the 4-day work week. Chapter 1 explains why existing approaches to social justice don’t offer satisfactory answers to the question of how much access to free time citizens …
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How Orderliness Informs a More Comprehensive Model of Political Orientation
Research has consistently found that political liberalism is predicted by the Big Five trait Openness to Experience, while political conservatism is predicted by trait Conscientiousness. The majority of the research thus far, however, has adopted a trait-level model of personality. Recent work …
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Basic rights and disagreement: is persistent disagreement about basic rights a reason to specify rights by democratic procedures?
… commonly thought to challenge the legitimacy of political liberalism and judicial review. If citizens persistently and reasonably disagree about basic rights, how can any state adopt laws that all citizens can reasonably accept? Why can a handful of judges impose their beliefs about rights on …
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Religion and differential justice.
… FOX News Channel and negatively related to political liberalism, religious salience, and viewing other TV news (e.g., PBS, BBC). Fear of police brutality, though, was positively associated with viewing MSNBC and other TV news. In the second study, I assess the role of black Protestant …
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Religion and differential justice.
… FOX News Channel and negatively related to political liberalism, religious salience, and viewing other TV news (e.g., PBS, BBC). Fear of police brutality, though, was positively associated with viewing MSNBC and other TV news. In the second study, I assess the role of black Protestant …
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Poverty, politics and global justice
… and justice in the context of contemporary political thought and philosophical research,. The research methodology used in this study is that of philosophic analysis, with the main focus on three key authors: Rawls’s political liberalism, Nussbaum’s capabilities approach and Pogge’s human …
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From Neo-orthodox theology to rationalistic deism : a study of the religious influences on the development of John Rawls's political philosophy.
… beliefs guided the development of his later political philosophy. By first analyzing A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith, I argue that the young Rawls's embrace of Neo-orthodoxy shaped his later philosophical view of human dignity and that the central themes of his undergraduate …
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