Arguments against Ronald Dworkin’s liberal egalitarianism
Vol 18, No 3 (2017) • Filosofia Unisinos - Unisinos Journal of Philosophy
Autor: Andrea Luisa Bucchile Faggion
Resumo:
In A Matter of Principle (1985), Ronald Dworkin discusses the role a political morality should play in decisions about when the law should be obeyed and enforced, and even what law is. Noticing that liberalism was once a quasi-consensus theory in Great Britain and the United States – and, therefore, a natural candidate to that role in those countries – Dworkin argues that the loss of that status is due to an alleged failure of liberal political theorists to identify a kind of egalitarianism as the constitutive principle on which liberalism is based. My aim in this paper is to advance arguments against such an influential claim that a certain egalitarianism would be the constitutive principle of political liberalism.
ISSN: ISSN: 1984-8234
Texto Completo: http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/fsu.2017.183.04
Palavras-Chave: Liberalism,egalitarianism,principles
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