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| Libertarianism: Libertarianism prioritizes minimal government involvement in both social and economic aspects, emphasizing individual freedom and free markets. Liberalism, while also valuing individual rights, supports a more active government role in addressing social issues and economic inequalities through regulation and welfare programs. See also Liberalism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Gerald F. Gaus on Libertarianism - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 126 Libertarianism/Gaus/Mack: We have argued that the liberty tradition, at its far right (i .e. statist) wing, accommodates a small state and perhaps some small genuinely redistributive transfers. Others, however, have recently attempted to push the liberty tradition to embrace statist conclusions of an egalitarian nature. Although, on our account of the liberty tradition, any movement to more statist positions is a movement to the right, these more statist, egalitarian proposals are generally described as 'leftist' (Steiner and Vallentyne, 2000)(1). We shall follow convention here and speak of this egalitarian push for a more extensive and activist state as 'left libertarianism'. We can identify three strategies that have been pursued by left libertarians: (1) the endorsing of a more positive conception of liberty; (2) the supposition of equal claim to all social resources; and (3) an expansive interpretation of harming others. Cf. >Freedom/Van Parijs, >Freedom/Hillel Steiner. 1. Steiner, Hillel and Peter Vallentyne, eds (2000) Left- Libertarianism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Mack, Eric and Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. „Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism: The Liberty Tradition.“ In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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