Renaturalisierung sozialer Ungleichheiten? Zu Wolfgang Kerstings vergeblicher Hoffnung, auf dem Weg von John Rawls uber Robert Nozick zu einer liberalen Sozialstaatsphilosophie zu gelangen
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 395-413
ISSN: 0032-3470
In 2000, Wolfgang Kersting presented a much acknowledged outline of a liberal welfare state philosophy within the debate on libertarianism & egalitarianism. Kersting, who used to sympathize with John Rawls's theory of justice, based his approach on a 'naturalism of merits,' which he polemically distinguishes from all egalitarian forms of political liberalism. This article deals with Kersting's path from John Rawls's Theory of Justice (1971), via Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), to his present conception of a minimal welfare state. It is pointed out that Kersting's conception is appropriate neither to the complexity of modern societies nor to the basic normative standards of the classical political liberalism. 23 References. Adapted from the source document.