Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?

Klappentext Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? In this book, two distinguished philosophers take up the debate. Zusammenfassung 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! Jan Narveson and James P. Sterba! take up the debate. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Equality is Compatible and Required by Liberty: 1. The practical requirements of an ideal of negative liberty; 2. Other attempts to show that libertarians should accept welfare or equality; 3. Objections from libertarians to my argument from liberty to equality; 4. My argument again and its future prospects; Part II. Liberty is Incompatible with the Right to Equality: 5. The issue framed; 6. The 'Social Contract' approach to moral philosophy; 7. The grounds for welfarism considered; 8. Conclusion; Part III. Responses: 9. Response to Narveson; 10. Response to Sterba.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Narveson, Jan Sterba Narveson, Narveson Jan, James P. Sterba
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107411616
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41161-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: For and Against; For and Against
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, Political Control & Freedoms