Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement

by Farrelly, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781403933195
• ISBN10: 1403933197
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book argues against the principled paradigm of ideal theory and champions instead a virtue-oriented theory of justice entitled "civic liberalism".

Author Biography

Colin Farrelly is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The 'Principled Paradigm' of Ideal Theory	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
A simple illustration of the complexity of justice	p. 8
Some caveats	p. 16
The Virtues of Fair Social Cooperation	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
The four convictions grounding 'civic liberalism'	p. 28
The virtues of fair social cooperation	p. 39
The central prescriptions of civic liberalism	p. 44
The Simplifying Assumptions of Rawlsian Justice	p. 48
Introduction	p. 48
The ideal/non-ideal theory distinction	p. 49
A parody of the original position	p. 52
Maximin and the cost-blind approach to rights	p. 55
Problems with the second principle of justice	p. 64
The unreasonable stringency of the difference principle	p. 68
The Cost-Blind Approach to Rights (Continued...)	p. 72
Rawls and Nozick on property rights	p. 72
Nozick against taxation	p. 75
Nozick on rectification	p. 78
Dworkin and equality of resources	p. 84
Kymlicka and the rights of national minorities	p. 90
Dualism, Incentives and the Demands of Justice	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
Why opt for dualism?	p. 99
The concern for stability	p. 101
The duties in non-ideal theory	p. 103
The duties in ideal theory	p. 111
Responding to Cohen's question	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 120
Should the Left Embrace Left-Libertarianism?	p. 122
Introduction	p. 122
Otsuka on initial acquisition	p. 124
Making the unjust pay for the disabled	p. 130
Hypothetical consent vs actual consent	p. 136
Intergenerational sovereignty	p. 139
A Citizen's Basic Income, Workfare and Reciprocity	p. 145
Van Parijs and 'real libertarianism'	p. 145
Leisure and the Crazy-Lazy challenge	p. 147
Fair reciprocity and workfare	p. 152
Self-respect	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 162
Neutrality and Toleration	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
The principle of state neutrality	p. 165
Toleration and hate speech	p. 169
Pornography and the issue of harm	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 177
The 'Dialogical Model' of Judicial Review	p. 178
Introduction	p. 178
The 'dialogical model' of judicial review	p. 184
Freedom of expression: A deeper analysis	p. 191
Why protect freedom of expression?	p. 194
The underlying rationale of the two-step model	p. 197
The concentration of communicative power	p. 202
Deliberative Democracy	p. 206
Introduction	p. 206
The ethics and limits of civility	p. 208
The problem of large scale	p. 213
The threat of bureaucratic domination	p. 220
Concluding Thoughts and Review	p. 223
Notes	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 242
Index	p. 248
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