Ideology and Truth-Seeking in Liberal Theory: The Case of Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberal State

1984 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyle A. Downing ◽  
Robert B. Thigpen
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Neutrality Test

This study examines the ideological and truth-seeking aspects of Ackerman's Social Justice in the Liberal State. Ackerman begins in a truth-seeking fashion by requiring all power and all distributive claims to be justified. In developing principles of social justice from imaginary dialogues that are assumed to be neutral toward the good, he defends the “neutrality principle” inadequately and employs it ideologically. The fundamental distributive principle, undominated equality, is derived from dialogues that are manipulated to prevent other principles from passing the “neutrality test.” Although Ackerman discusses issues of citizenship and birthrights that are ordinarily ignored, his attempt to protect the liberal state leads to ideological formulations.

Social Justice in the Liberal State.

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Aryeh Botwinick ◽  
Bruce A. Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal State

Social Justice in the Liberal State.

1983 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald H. Regan ◽  
Bruce A. Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal State

Social Justice in the Liberal State

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
F. Patrick Hubbard ◽  
Bruce Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal State

Democracy and Social Justice

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
The West ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Changing Attitudes

The principles that we use to evaluate social and political institutions have affinities for one another whose precise nature is hard to establish. We sense that a person who holds a particular principle of freedom, for example, ought for consistency's sake to hold corresponding principles of authority, equality and so forth, but we are hard put to it to explain what ‘corresponding’ means here. My intention in the present paper is to examine what kind of connections may exist between the principle of democracy and various principles of social justice, and in doing so to throw some light on the evolution of liberal thinking from the classical liberalism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the modified form of that doctrine that is prevalent in the West today. I shall try to show that changes in the liberal theory of social justice have been intimately connected to changing attitudes towards democracy as a form of government.

La giustizia sociale nello Stato liberale

1984 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Francesco Barone
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
New Model ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The One

Abstract The main purpose of B.A. Ackerman's book on social justice in a Liberal State is the one to propose a model of State able to overcome both the capitalistic and the marxian models, on the basis of a truly rational and scientific approach to Liberalism.The new model certainly deserves attention, though Mr. Ackerman's views seem sometimes to suffer from a scientist illusion.

Social Justice in the Liberal State

1982 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Liberal State

Discours Des Droits De L’homme Au Sens D’un Retour A Aristote

1998 ◽  
pp. 232-237
Author(s):  
John K. Park
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Economic Evolution ◽  
Communitarian Ethics ◽  
The Common ◽  
Theory Of Information

It is interesting to see Aristotle's observation of natural law in order to renew the ideal of law against the Marxist theory of society, to renounce the normative theory of the nation, and to study the liberal theory of information. All this allows us to expect the realization of social justice and human rights from the institutionalization of markets (agora) and the precondition of the boundary of the general culture (paideia), namely the communitarian ethics and the moral reformation against the genealogist tradition. We find in the tradition inaugurated by Aristotle the function of ethical discussion about the common good, thus imbricating the differences stratified by the economic evolution in the polis.

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