Background Justice over Time: Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Background Justice over Time
T2 - Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
AU - Schefczyk, Michael
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In Justice as Fairness, Rawls presents a case for property-owning democracy (POD) which heavily depends on a favourable comparison with welfare state capitalism (WSC). He argues that WSC, but not POD, fails to realise 'all the main political values expressed by the two principles of justice'. This article argues that Rawls's case for POD is incomplete. He does not show that POD is superior to other conceivable forms of WSC. In order to present a serious contender, I sketch what I call a realistically Utopian welfare state (RUWS) that (a) guarantees the fair equality of political liberties and opportunity and that (b) maximises the situation of the worst-off via a kind of participation income. The main aim of the article is to give credibility to the claim that RUWS is not obviously worse than POD by Rawlsian standards and therefore deserves a fair hearing in further research.
AB - In Justice as Fairness, Rawls presents a case for property-owning democracy (POD) which heavily depends on a favourable comparison with welfare state capitalism (WSC). He argues that WSC, but not POD, fails to realise 'all the main political values expressed by the two principles of justice'. This article argues that Rawls's case for POD is incomplete. He does not show that POD is superior to other conceivable forms of WSC. In order to present a serious contender, I sketch what I call a realistically Utopian welfare state (RUWS) that (a) guarantees the fair equality of political liberties and opportunity and that (b) maximises the situation of the worst-off via a kind of participation income. The main aim of the article is to give credibility to the claim that RUWS is not obviously worse than POD by Rawlsian standards and therefore deserves a fair hearing in further research.
KW - Philosophy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84903380133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/auk-2013-0115
DO - 10.1515/auk-2013-0115
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 35
SP - 193
EP - 212
JO - Analyse & Kritik
JF - Analyse & Kritik
SN - 0171-5860
IS - 1
ER -