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Det goda livet: En normativ diskussion om statlig opinionsbildning för ett dygdigt leverne

Wiel-Berggren, Gustav LU (2014) STVK02 20132
Department of Political Science
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
This paper has two ambitions that both stem from the question: can government conveyance of a virtuous lifestyle be justified? The first ambition is to examine if the government should promote the majority opinion of a virtuous life to its people – and does this from two different perspectives: a classic liberal perspective – from which there was no unified answer – and a communitarian perspective, which demonstrates why the government can’t be neutral, and has to encourage the people to live a certain way. The second ambition of this paper is to use arguments drawn from the
liberal and communitarian perspectives to give a verdict and answer the question. This paper reaches the conclusion that such a government can’t be justified – and... (More)
This paper has two ambitions that both stem from the question: can government conveyance of a virtuous lifestyle be justified? The first ambition is to examine if the government should promote the majority opinion of a virtuous life to its people – and does this from two different perspectives: a classic liberal perspective – from which there was no unified answer – and a communitarian perspective, which demonstrates why the government can’t be neutral, and has to encourage the people to live a certain way. The second ambition of this paper is to use arguments drawn from the
liberal and communitarian perspectives to give a verdict and answer the question. This paper reaches the conclusion that such a government can’t be justified – and that anyone who requests such a government not neccesarily claims that government sanctioned oppression against the deviant was right, but neither does he claim it was wrong as he requests a government which actions are based on the same principles as the government of oppression. (Less)
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author
Wiel-Berggren, Gustav LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20132
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
stat, opinionsbildning, dygd, klassisk liberalism, kommunitarism
language
Swedish
id
4228572
date added to LUP
2014-02-04 18:44:10
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:44
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  abstract     = {{This paper has two ambitions that both stem from the question: can government conveyance of a virtuous lifestyle be justified? The first ambition is to examine if the government should promote the majority opinion of a virtuous life to its people – and does this from two different perspectives: a classic liberal perspective – from which there was no unified answer – and a communitarian perspective, which demonstrates why the government can’t be neutral, and has to encourage the people to live a certain way. The second ambition of this paper is to use arguments drawn from the
liberal and communitarian perspectives to give a verdict and answer the question. This paper reaches the conclusion that such a government can’t be justified – and that anyone who requests such a government not neccesarily claims that government sanctioned oppression against the deviant was right, but neither does he claim it was wrong as he requests a government which actions are based on the same principles as the government of oppression.}},
  author       = {{Wiel-Berggren, Gustav}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Det goda livet: En normativ diskussion om statlig opinionsbildning för ett dygdigt leverne}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}