Comment on Andrew Walton
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Carina Fourie
Abstract
Andrew Walton argues that, a Rawlsian property-owning democracy (POD) requires a fraternal ethos and certain forms of social interaction, such as high trade union membership. The basic structure objection could be used to challenge these claims as it indicates that Rawls’s principles of justice should only be applied to the basic structure of society, and not, for example, to an ethos. Walton has two responses to the objection: firstly, that it does not apply to his argument, and, secondly, even if it were to apply, the objection itself is unconvincing. In this article I argue however that (1) the basic structure objection does apply as a fraternal ethos is difficult to reconcile with Rawls’s understanding of what should be included as part of the basis structure, and (2) although I do not defend the basic structure objection, it is not made explicit in Walton’s argument why the objection should be dismissed as unconvincing.
© 2013 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Artikel in diesem Heft
- 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
- Authors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- 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
- Authors
