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In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1743-8934
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In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 1-15
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 1-15
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 99-124
ISSN: 1743-8772
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 99-125
ISSN: 1369-8230
In: Environmental politics, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 475-479
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Environmental politics, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 475-480
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Environmental politics, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 475-479
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Environmental politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 179-194
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 703-724
ISSN: 1467-9248
It is often assumed that neutralist liberalism and environmentalism are incompatible because promoting environmentally friendly policies involves endorsing a particular conception of the good life. This paper questions that assumption by showing that one important version of neutralist liberalism, John Rawls's 'justice as fairness', can allow two kinds of justification for environmental policies. First, public reason arguments can be used to justify conceptions of sustainability and environmental justice. Second, comprehensive ideals (including non-anthropocentric ideals) can be used to justify more ambitious environmental policies when two conditions are met, namely, the issue under discussion does not concern constitutional essentials or matters of basic justice; and the policy is endorsed by a majority of citizens. Rawls's willingness to allow this second kind of justification for environmental (and other) policies is defended against two objections, which claim that Rawls's 'democratic liberalism' is incoherent. The first objection – the 'justice' objection – is that to spend public money promoting comprehensive (environmental) ideals is inconsistent with the 'difference principle'. The 'justice' objection depends on a common misunderstanding of the difference principle. The second objection – the 'neutrality' objection – claims that 'democratic liberalism' is inconsistent with Rawls's commitment to neutrality. The 'neutrality' objection is unconvincing because 'democratic liberalism' is 'fundamentally neutral' whereas the leading alternative is not.
In: Political studies, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 703-724
ISSN: 0032-3217
In: Democratization, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 210-211
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Democratization, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 210-212
ISSN: 1351-0347
In: Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 206-222
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
Liberalism and ecologism are widely regarded as incompatible. Liberalism and (anthropocentric) environmentalism might be compatible but liberalism and (non-anthropocentric) ecologism are not. A liberal state cannot promote policies for ecological or ecocentric reasons. An individual cannot be both a liberal and a committed advocate of ecologism. This paper challenges these claims. It is argued that Rawls's 'political liberalism' is compatible with ecologism and, in particular, the idea of 'ecological justice'. A Rawlsian state can promote ecological justice. A committed political liberal can also be a committed advocate of ecological justice. The argument is developed through a close textual examination of Rawls's brief discussion of our duties to 'animals and the rest of nature'. Rawls leaves far more scope for liberal ecologism than his critics have suggested. The proposed version of liberal ecologism is defended against charges of substantive and procedural bias toward humans and against nonhuman nature. Liberal ecologism may not be enough for some ecologists-especially 'ecological constitutionalists' seeking constitutional protection for nonhuman nature-but it is a serious and defensible political and moral theory.
In: Environmental politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 179-194
ISSN: 1743-8934