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The Good Life as a Public Good (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
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The Good Life as a Public Good (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 6
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According to the neutrality thesis, in designing state policies
governments should not allow themselves to be informed by any
particular conceptions of the good life. The aim of this book is to
contribute to the debate about this thesis in two specific ways.
Firstly, the limits of acceptable state perfectionism are examined,
not on a general level but by reference to some particular concerns
of government policy; transgenic animals, future generations, the
promotion of the arts, minority cultures, the allocation of scarce
health care resources, the integration of mentally handicapped
people into the community, and the expression of national
identities. Secondly, the book as a whole evaluates the argument
that the government has a special task to produce or to maintain
intrinsically collective aspects of the good life, because these
are to be seen as public goods.
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