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Dušan Pavlović: Personal autonomy in Rawls's theory of justice
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"Today, the opinion is quite widespread that the legitimizing power of liberalism is not usable for practical purposes. Many of those who theoretically accept liberal principles - equal human rights, neutrality of the state, equal opportunities, civil equality, non-discrimination, redistribution of goods from the better off to the worse off, etc. - are ready to say that they are all beautiful." things, but a state based on such principles will never be built. The persuasiveness of this argument is largely derived from the fact that such a state does not really exist today. But if we were to look at everything strictly through definitions and principles, then we would have to conclude that today there is no national state either. […]
It is an indisputable fact that a huge number of governments that make up the European Union at the turn of the millennium were social democratic, and advocated the ideas of the welfare state and equal human rights. which more or less coincides with the principles advocated by Rawls and other egalitarian liberals. More importantly, the principles of egalitarian liberalism are enshrined in a whole series of international conventions. Therefore, I see no reason why we should stop making moral arguments defending the liberal state. Despite the popular view that the Balkan countries and most Eastern European countries will stabilize only when they accept multicultural principles of justice, I argue that they will become stable and just if they accept the liberal principles of justice. This book represents theoretical support for that argument."
Dušan Pavlović
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