democracy

liberal

nationality

American

British

intellectual movement

analytic philosophy

occupation / innovator as

university teacher

philosopher

lawyer

scientist

scientific organization

British Academy

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

cause of death

natural causes

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Lincean Academy

innovator in the field of

political philosophy

is a means to attain justice, not its polar opposite.

For Dworkin, democracy is a means to attain justice, not its polar opposite.

is one who prefers an economic market and a representative democracy as a means of preserving the autonomy of the individual to define her own good in life and to see that everyone has the equal opportunity to do so.

A liberal, then, seeks to preserve the autonomy of the individual to define her own good in life and to see that everyone has the equal opportunity to do so. To achieve this, the liberal prefers an economic market and a representative democracy to other political mechanisms because these 'familiar institutions may be expected to provide a more egalitarian division of social goods than any other general arrangement' (Dworkin 66).

is someone who holds a theory of equality that says that political decisions must be, so far as is possible, independent of any particular conception of the good life, or of what gives value to life.

Ronald Dworkin defines a liberal as someone who holds a theory of equality that says 'that political decisions must be, so far as is possible, independent of any particular conception of the good life, or of what gives value to life.'

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Ronald Dworkin