TY - CHAP
T1 - Perfectionism in Politics
T2 - A Defense
AU - Wall, Steven
PY - 2009/4/27
Y1 - 2009/4/27
KW - Challenge of justificatory liberalism - objection formulated in terms of political legitimacy
KW - Core claims of perfectionist political theory
KW - Justification, power, and restraint - challenge to perfectionism posed by justificatory liberalism
KW - Justificatory liberalism - any political theory that accepts public justification condition on political legitimacy
KW - Perfectionism in politics - a defense
KW - Perfectionist political theory - not take sides on whether the state should promote good human lives only or whether it should promote perfectionist goods that do not contribute to good human lives
KW - Perfectionist political theory - two basic components, the objective good component and the rejection of state neutrality component
KW - Pluralism and skepticism - core claims of perfectionist political theory not settling issue of pluralism
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444310399.ch6
DO - 10.1002/9781444310399.ch6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84885801357
SN - 9781405133210
SP - 99
EP - 117
BT - Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -