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Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of Politics
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Francis Cheneval
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February 11, 2016
Abstract
The article argues that Rawls’s property-owning democracy should not be understood as a necessary standard of democratic legitimacy. This position contradicts Rawls’s own understanding to some extent, but a rejoinder with elements of political liberalism is possible. He concedes that justice as fairness is a ‘comprehensive liberal doctrine’ and that a well ordered society affirming such a doctrine ‘contradicts reasonable pluralism’. Rawls makes clear that reasonable pluralism in combination with the burdens of judgment lead to rare unanimity in political life and to the necessity of majority and plurality voting procedures.
Published Online: 2016-02-11
Published in Print: 2013-05-01
© 2013 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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- Contents
- Editorial
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
- The Property-Owning Democracy vesus the Welfare State
- Thoughts on Arrangements of Property Rights in Productive Assets
- Comment on John E. Roemer
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
- Comment on Gavin Kerr
- The Concept of Property in Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Tilo Wesche
- The Place of the Market in a Rawlsian Economy
- Between Sentimentalism and Instrumentalism. The Societal Role of Work in John Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy and Its Bearing upon Basic Income
- Fraternal Society in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Andrew Walton
- Background Justice over Time: Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
- Comment on Michael Schefczyk
- Investing for a Property-Owning Democracy? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of Investment Practices
- Constitutionalizing Property-Owning Democracy
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of Politics
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