Consequential Neutrality Revivified
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23201399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Clarke (0000-0001-7034-8318, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 109-121 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Political Neutrality (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137319203_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2343941653 |
| ISBN | 9781137319203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Liberal neutrality requires that, given the diversity of conceptions of the good life held by people, the state should be in some sense neutral between these conceptions. Just what that sense is has been a matter of debate but it seems generally accepted that neutrality is a property of the justifications for government action and not of the consequences of such action. In other words, the state must be neutral by avoiding invoking any conception of the good in its justification for laws and policies and by avoiding having any laws and policies that can be justified only by reference to some conception of the good. It need not, so it seems generally accepted, ensure that the consequences of its laws and policies do not favor some conceptions of the good over others. Against this commonly held view, in this chapter I argue that justificatory neutrality is inadequate as a full picture of what liberal neutrality means and that some conception of consequential neutrality is more plausible.KeywordsGood LifePublic FundingEqual OpportunityGovernment ActionSocial StabilityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Action (physics) · Diversity (politics) · Economics · Epistemology · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · Neutrality · Political science · Positive economics · Property (philosophy) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |