Title Persons, identity, and political theory : a defense of Rawlsian political identity / Catherine Galko Campbell

Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

Table of Contents
1.	Political Identity, Perfectionism, and Neutrality					1
	Introduction					1
	Perfectionism, Neutrality, and the Aims of Government					4
	Personal Identity and Political Identity					10
	Overview of the Structure of the Book					11
	References					13
2.	Personal Identity and Liberal Political Theory					15
	Introduction to Communitarian Objections to Liberal Political Theory					15
	Liberal Theory and Individualism					19
	Metaphysical Individualism					20
	Normative Individualism					21
	Liberals, Communitarians, and Individualism					21
	Communitarian Objections to Rawls					28
	Objections to the Original Position					28
	Objections to the Political Conception of the Person					31
	Priority of the Right and Objections to the Political Conception of the Person					34
	References					36
3.	Clarification of the Liberal/Communitarian Debate and Metaphysical Objections to Rawls's Conception of the Person					39
	Taylor on the Liberal/Communitarian Debate					39
	Priority of the Right over the Good and Unencumbered Selves					43
	Objections to Normative Individualism					50
	Conclusion					55
	References					56
4.	Taylor's Conception of Persons and His Theory of Personal Identity					57
	Introduction					57
	Taylor's Objection to Atomistic Conceptions of Persons					58
	Taylor's Conception of Persons					63
	Taylor on Language and Persons' Identities					66
	Frameworks and Strong Evaluation					69
	Taylor's Conception of Personal Identity					72
	Conclusion					78
	References					78
5.	Defense of the Original Position					81
	Two Purposes of the Original Position					81
	Intermediate Goal: Support for C					82
	Ultimate Goal: Connecting C with Justice					83
	Argument Interpretation of the Original Position					85
	Evidence in Favor of the Argument Interpretation					86
	Argument Interpretation					87
	Translation of the Conditions of the Original Position					88
	Sample Argument					92
	Two Possible Objections to the Argument Interpretation and Responses					93
	Refutation of the Objections to the Original Position					94
	Identity Objection					95
	Personhood Objection					96
	From Metaphysical to Normative Identity					98
	References					102
6.	Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of Persons					103
	Metaphysical Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					104
	Normative Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					111
	Objection on the Grounds of Valuing the Capacity for Choice					112
	Citizenship Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					114
	Empirical Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					120
	Conclusion					124
	References					125
7.	Defense of Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					127
	Metaphysical Commitments and Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					127
	Rawls's Political Conception of the Person Versus Nonpublic or Moral Identity					131
	Details of Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					133
	Responses to Metaphysical Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					140
	Response to Normative Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of the Person					145
	Response to the Objection on the Grounds of Valuing the Capacity for Choice					145
	Response to Citizenship Objections					148
	Response to Empirical Objections					152
	Conclusion					156
	References					156
8.	Rawlsian Political Identity					159
	Why does Political Identity Matter?					160
	Schechtman on Personal Identity					161
	The Reidentification Question					161
	The Characterization Question					162
	The Characteristics that Matter for Political Identity					164
	The Rawlsian Conception of Political Identity					166
	Why Rawlsian Political Identity?					166
	The Details of the Rawlsian Conception of Political Identity					167
	Assessing and Modifying the Rawlsian Conception of Political Identity					172
	Perfectionism and Rawlsian Political Identity					176
	Conclusion					183
	References					184
	Index					185

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) Contents Political Identity, Perfectionism and Neutrality -- Personal Identity and Liberal Political Theory -- Clarification of the Liberal/Communitarian Debate and Metaphysical Objections to Rawls's Conception of the Person -- Taylor's Conception of Persons and His Theory of Personal Identity -- Defense of the Original Position -- Objections to Rawls's Political Conception of Persons -- Defense of Rawls's Political Conception of the Person -- Rawlsian Political Identity Summary This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls's writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. The book aims to show that objections to Rawls's political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of political identity is defensible. The book shows that the debate between liberals and communitarians is relevant to the current debate regarding perfectionism and neutrality in politics, and clarifies the debate between Rawls and communitarians in a way that will promote fruitful discussion on the issue of political identity. It does this by providing a clearer account of a conception of personal identity according to which persons are socially constituted, including the intuitions and assumptions underlying the communitarians conception of persons as socially constituted. It examines the communitarian objections to liberal political theory and to the liberal conception of persons, the unencumbered self. The book differentiates between two types of objection to the liberal conception of persons: the metaphysical and normative. It explains Rawls's political conception of persons, and the metaphysical and normative commitments Rawls incurs and does not incur in virtue of that conception. It shows that both kind of objection to Rawls's political conception of the person fail. Finally, modifying Rawls's political conception of the person, a Rawlsian conception of political identity is explained and defended Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 25, 2013) Subject Identity politics. Identity (Philosophical concept) identity. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Droit. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Identity (Philosophical concept) Identity politics Form Electronic book ISBN 9789400779174 9400779178 940077916X 9789400779167

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