Terms for Chapters 4 and 6 in Will Kymlicka
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction

Instructor: Dr. Garrett

Last revised date: November 14, 2005

Chapter 4

liberty argument for free market utilitarian arg. for free market entitlement theory transfer principle (just) initial acquisition principle rectification (of injustice) principle minimal state entitled (Nozick's sense) self-ownership ownership of the external world historical conception of justice end state, justice as

Lockean proviso tragedy of the commons enclosure / enclosing the commons paternalism system of appropriation private ownership state ownership worker self-ownership formal v. substantive self-ownership (substantive) self-determination dignity, moral content of notion of talents as parts of circumstances

Chapter 6

old v. new communitarianism remedial virtue, justice as Moralität and Sittlichkeit (Hegel) cultural relativism "individualism"         attributed to liberalism perfectionism self-determination subjectivism         (related to value judgments) skepticism         (related to value judgments) deliberation, two aspects of neutral state thin theory of the good substantive conception of the good unencumbered v. embedded self

emptiness argument "intrinsic value of freedom" view given, taking something as given as not fixed self-perception argument self constituted by ends practical reasoning as discovery practical reasoning as judgment nonliberal minority groups millet system traditional liberal view         of tolerance and autonomy Rawls' political liberalism overlapping consensus principled agreement vs. modus vivendi political conception of justice Mill's comprehensive liberalism