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dc.contributor.authorStensen, Vegard
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T08:32:25Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T08:32:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-18
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the self-respect argument for basic liberties, which is that self-respect is an important good, best supported by basic liberties, and that this yields a reason for the traditional liberty principle. I concentrate on versions of it that contend that self-respect is best supported by basic liberties for reasons related to the recognition that such liberties convey. I first discuss the two standard approaches loosely associated with John Rawls and Axel Honneth. Here self-respect pertains to traits and conduct (Rawls) or to one’s personhood (Honneth). It is argued that these approaches fail to show why self-respect is better supported by the liberty principle than certain alternatives worth taking seriously – unless (in the case of personhood self-respect) self-respect is construed in such a narrow way that it is not a condition for autonomy or welfare in any plausible sense. I then identify a self-attitude that I call “a sense of competence”, which at least shows that the liberty principle is more important to autonomy than what we might otherwise have reasons to believe.en_US
dc.identifier.citationStensen V. Self-Respect and the Importance of Basic Liberties. Moral Philosophy and Politics. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2148209
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/mopp-2022-0022
dc.identifier.issn2194-5616
dc.identifier.issn2194-5624
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30462
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.relation.journalMoral Philosophy and Politics
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleSelf-Respect and the Importance of Basic Libertiesen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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