Modern Libralism Key Thinkers Flashcards
1
Q
What does John Rawls argue ?
A
- foundational equality
- redistribution of wealth to allow for greater equality of opportunity
- enabling state
- individuals would choose to help the poorest whilst striving for individual advancement
2
Q
What is foundational equality and who argued it?
A
John Rawls
Means equality should not just be a legal concept ‘formal equality’ but should extend to other areas of life such as economic and social.
3
Q
What is an enabling state and who?
A
Rawls
A larger state that helps individuals to achieve their potential and be free.
Can cause dependence on state…
Higher taxes
4
Q
What does Betty Friedan argue ?
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- individualism and personal freedom should be available to all - including women
- women’s lives restricted via society’s ’cultural channels’ that left women being ‘culturally conditioned’
-liberal rational thought was not applied to women who were govern a ‘gendered human nature’ - changes to lives of women would develop through the liberal state that would uphold natural laws for women
5
Q
John Rawls Quote
A
‘no one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favourable staring place in society’
6
Q
Betty Friedan Quote
A
‘who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves’
