What is Neutral about Neutrality?
| dc.contributor.author | Ackerman, Bruce | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:17.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:36:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:36:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1983-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
| dc.identifier | fss_papers/152 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bruce A Ackerman, What is neutral about neutrality?, 93 ETHICS 372 (1983). | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 1436289 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/753 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Neutrality: a fighting word. Only neuters can be Neutral in politics. The fool who yearns for Neutrality indulges a special kind of silliness-from which libertarians and communards, Maoists and Straussians are mercifully immune. There can be no politics without vision, no philosophy without commitment. Neutrality is not just another political slogan. If taken seriously, it will destroy the most distinctive feature of politics: the impossibility of reducing it to a neutral science of social engineering. Until the liberal is disabused of his absurd search for a value-free politics, his "philosophy" will remain a contemptibly superficial, if surprisingly seductive, exercise in suppression. | |
| dc.title | What is Neutral about Neutrality? | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Faculty Scholarship Series | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:36:05Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/152 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 |
