Liberty and equality. A critical response to the debate between James P. Sterba and Jan Narveson
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Vorster, Nico
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Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
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This article examines the libertarian arguments of Jan Narveson and
James P. Sterba regarding the compatibility of liberty and equality. It
then posits that their arguments fail in solving tensions between liberty
and equality, because all fundamental rights cannot be derived
from liberty. A coherent scheme of human rights is only possible if
human dignity is used to balance the conflicting interests of liberty
and equality. It then proceeds to make some suggestions on how human
dignity as core value might help to solve tensions between
equality and liberty
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Vorster, N. 2012. Liberty and equality. A critical response to the debate between James P. Sterba and Jan Narveson. South African journal of philosophy, 31(2):433-446. [http://www.phil.ac.za/sajp.htm]