TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brudner,Alan
TI  - Constitutional goods
SN  - 0199225796
AV  - K3165 .B785 2007
U1  - 342.001 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Liberalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-444) and index; Introduction : the aim of constitutional theory --; 1; The libertarian conception of the public --; 2; Constitutional principles : civil rights --; 3; Constitutional principles : political rights --; 4; The egalitarian principle of fundamental justice --; 5; Self authorship and substantive justice --; 6; Self-rule and procedural justice --; 7; Social and economic rights --; 8; Hegel's idea of Sittlichkeit --; 9; Sex, family, and self-authorship --; 10; The liberal duty to recognize cultures --; 11; Consociationalism
N2  - "Alan Brudner suggests a conception of fundamental justice that liberals of competing philosophic schools may accept as fulfilling their own basic commitments. Employing this conception, he distils the essentials of liberal constitutionalism from the jurisprudence and practice of contemporary liberal-democratic states. Brudner argues that the model liberal-democratic constitution is best understood as a unity of three constitutional frameworks: libertarian, egalitarian, and communitarian. Each is based on a particular conception of public reason. Brudner criticizes these frameworks insofar as their organizing conceptions claim to be fundamental and moves forward to suggest a Hegelian conception of public reason within which each framework is contained as a constituent element of a whole." "When viewed in the light of this conception, the liberal constitution embodies a surprising synthesis. It reconciles a commitment to individual liberty and freedom of conscience with the perfectionist idea that the state ought to cultivate a type of personality whose fundamental ends are the goods essential to dignity. Such a reconciliation, the author suggests, may attract competing liberalisms to a consensus on an inclusive conception of public reason under which political authority is validated for those who share a confidence in the individual's inviolable worth."--BOOK JACKET
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