Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11308405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Kerr (0000-0001-9562-4251, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-92 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analyse & Kritik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0171-5860 • E-ISSN: 2365-9858 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/auk-2013-0107 |
| OpenAlex | W2346673817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The distinction drawn by Rawls between the ideas of property-owning democracy and welfare state capitalism parallels his distinction between justice-based ‘liberalisms of freedom’ (including his own conception of justice as fairness) and utilitarian- based ‘liberalisms of happiness’. In this paper I argue that Rawls’s failure to attach the same level of significance to essential socio-economic rights and liberties as he attached to the traditional liberal civil and political rights and liberties gives justice as fairness a quasi-utilitarian character, which is incompatible with the fundamental objective of protecting the highest.-order interests of citizens conceived as free and equal. I argue that in order fully to protect these interests, rights to access to non-human capital and productive resources should be assigned the same level of significance as that assigned to the civil and political rights and liberties, and prioritized over the lower-order rights and benefits regulated by Rawls’s second principle of justice
Civil liberties · Classical liberalism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Economics · Happiness · Law and economics · Liberalism · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Sociology · Veil of ignorance · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |