POL 4275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Stuart Mill, Classical Liberalism
12 Apr 2018
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Conceptions of justice & classical liberalism, charles taylor. The fact of pluralism: citizens hold diverse comprehensive moral doctrines . Solution: classical liberalism (john stuart mill, locke, 19th c) Institutionalizing distinction between public realm (citizenship) and private life. All have right to practice their own doctrine (the good life) in private life, so long as this is consistent with 2 provisos: A) the neutral (non-discriminatory) statute of public institutions with respect to those moral doctrines, and. B) the right of others to do the same in their private life. Critique: expanded conception of justice - difference (taylor) Philosophical mistake of classical liberalism: proceduralistic notions of the right; substantive notions of the good. Using common ground as a baseline, how they relate to one another to determine rules of the game (proceduralistic) without considering the context. Not right instead of not good (out of order from established principles) Neutral proceduralistic conception of what is right.
