Dworkin on the Foundations of Liberal Equality

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ID23212924
AuthorsPatrick Neal (0000-0001-8524-2639, University of Vermont, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume1
Issue2
Pages205-226
Publication date1995-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLegal Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1352-3252 • E-ISSN: 1469-8048
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1352325200000148
OpenAlexW2120297310
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

Ronald Dworkin's Tanner Lectures, “Foundations of Liberal Equality,” have hardly elicited comment within the academic political theory community. This is surprising for a number of reasons. First, Dworkin is widely taken to be one of the leading liberal theorists in the English-speaking world, and “Foundations” is a major statement (120 pages in length) involving reflection upon issues of principle that are at the center of contemporary scholarly debate among liberals. Secondly, “Foundations” introduces a number of ideas and concepts that are new in Dworkin's corpus and that serve to illuminate and clarify some of his wdely discussed earlier works, especially the famous article “Liberalism,” which sparked so much argument over the idea of neutrality and its place within liberal political theory. Finally, the lectures are interesting because of the approach they take to the matter of “defending liberalism,” an approach that departs in interesting and significant ways from those presently pursued by other leading liberal thinkers, notably John Rawls and Joseph Raz.

Argument (complex analysis) · Classical liberalism · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Neutrality · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statement (logic) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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