Social Justice in the Liberal State

"Social Justice in the Liberal State" [cite book
id=ISBN 0-300-02439-8
title=Social justice in the liberal state
author=Ackerman, Bruce A.
publisher=New Haven : Yale University Press
year=1980] is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman, recipient of the French Order of Merit, cite web
url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/04-03-01-03.all.html
title=YALE News Release
author=Office of Public Affairs
publisher=Yale Law School
date=1 Mar2004] Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. [cite web
url=http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/BAckerman.htm
title=Faculty
author=Yale Law School
accessdate=2006-07-16] The book is an essay in political philosophy, a "new view" of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will "challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy." [cite news
author = Book Review Desk
title = NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
work = Late City Final Edition
pages = 14, Column 1, Section 7
publisher = The New York Times
date = 30 Nov1980
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] Ackerman addresses the positive case for a liberalism that glorifies neither the state bureaucracy nor the private market. References to the sphere of relations among states are few, but the breadth of the attack on the fundamental issues of man and society is impressive. [ cite web
url=http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19801201fabook13511/bruce-a-ackerman/social-justice-in-the-liberal-state.html
author=Campbell, John C.
year=1981
title=Review: Social Justice in the Liberal State
publisher=Council on Foreign Relations
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] To Ackerman, liberalism is a kind of structured conversation in which verbal negotiation among those with differing visions of the good life is an alternative to the exercise of naked power. [cite web
url=http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps/PES-Yearbook/92_docs/Bull.HTM
author=Bull, Barry L.
year=1992
title=THE CREOLIZATION OF LIBERALISM
publisher=College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] Ackerman has mounted a profound challenge to contract thinking. It works, crudely, on the idea that the premises of a course of contract reasoning can be manipulated so as to yield (more or less) any conclusion that the theorist has some antecedent interest in producing. [cite web
url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/
title=Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract
author=D'Agostino, Fred
publisher=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University
date=8 Apr2003
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] The social contract is the contract which would be confirmed by the entire population, under ideal conditions, after perfect and complete consideration. [cite web
url=http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/rawls.html
title=The politics of John Rawls
author=Treanor, Paul
date=11 Jan2003
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] Ackerman has offered a suggestion for determining whether any persons among a genetically diverse group are genetically disadvantaged. His suggestion is that, to be genetically undominated, a person must possess a set of abilities that permit him to pursue some life purpose that some persons have, with as much facility as any other person is able to pursue that life purpose. And Ackerman asserts that every person has a right to be genetically undominated. [cite web
url=http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/Tideman_PJER.html
title=Peace, Justice, and Economic Reform
author=Tideman, Nicolaus
publisher=Achenbaum, Wyneth; wealthandwant.com
date=18 Mar1997
accessdate=2006-07-16 ] The privatization of religious convictions is also strongly defended. Ackerman argues for a maximal separation doctrine in that religion does not have an appropriate place in the public realm of a liberal democracy. [cite web
url=http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/volumes/2006/rieffer-2006.pdf
format=PDF
title=Religion, Politics and Human Rights
author=Rieffer, Barbara Ann
publisher=Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications
year=2006
accessdate=2006-07-16] The book also briefly suggests cite web
url=http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/1984Choosing.pdf
format=PDF
title=93 Yale L.J. 1283
author=Amar, Akhil Reed
publisher=The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.
date=Jun1984
accessdate=2006-07-16] "responsive lotteries", [cite web
url=http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/1994Consent.pdf
format=PDF
title=94 Colum. L. Rev. 457
author=Amar, Akhil Reed
date=Mar1984
publisher=Directors of The Columbia Law Review Association
accessdate=2006-07-16] prototypes of lottery voting as a way to decide issues, but leaves the question hanging in the air, inviting others to devote more serious thought to lottery voting.

References

See also

*Bruce Ackerman
*Political philosophy
*Social contract
*Social justice

External links

* [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300027575 Social Justice in the Liberal State] at Yale University Press;Related works
* [http://folk.uio.no/andreasf/ms/Citizenship-global.rtf Citizenship: European and Global] at Universitetet i Oslos
* [http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~bisci/PluralismWorkshop/Papers/Reichpaper.pdf Common schooling and educational choice] at Washington University in St. Louis
* [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hcpds/wpweb/foundations/parijs.html Just Health Care and the Two Solidarities] at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
* [http://www.theihs.org/libertyguide/hsr/hsr.php?id=65 Religious Virtues, Religious Vices] at George Mason University;Scholastic inclusion
* [http://www.colbud.hu/publications/AY2002_2003/publiclectures.shtml Public Lectures Academic Year 2002/2003] at Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study
* [http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/programme/soc321.shtml SOC321 Social Justice] at Lingnan University
* [http://quasimeme.marlab.ac.uk/philosophy/documents/PH3538-Bibl.doc PH 3538 Social and Political Philosophy] at University of Aberdeen
* [http://www.ccu.edu/library/subjectguide/socialjustice.asp SOCIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES] at Colorado Christian University