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Many people, including many contemporary philosophers, believe that the state has no business trying to improve people's characters or elevating their tastes or preventing them from living degraded lives. They believe that governments should remain absolutely neutral when it comes to the consideration of competing conceptions of the good.
One fundamental aim of George Sher's book is to show that this view is indefensible. A second complementary aim is to articulate a conception of the good that is worthy of promotion by the state. The first part of the book analyzes attempts to ground the neutrality thesis in the value of autonomy, respect for autonomy, the dangers of a nonneutral state, and skepticism about the good.
The second part defends an objective conception of the good which remains sensitive to some of the considerations that make subjectivism attractive. According to this conception, the elements of a good life include (but are not exhausted by) knowledge, excellence, certain preferred modes of interaction among persons, and various familiar virtues.
- Lucidly written and structured, this book represents a major contribution to contemporary political theory.
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Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Beyond neutrality: perfectionism and politics
1997, Cambridge University Press
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