The Good Life as a Public Good - Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer Academic, 2000.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; According to the neutrality thesis, in designing state policies governments should not allow themselves to be informed by any particular conceptions of the good life. The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate about this thesis in two specific ways. Table of Contents: Preface; G. den Hartogh. Introduction; G. den Hartogh. Transgenic Animals and Liberal Democracy: The Dutch Case; W. Achterberg. Sustainability and the Principle of Neutrality; H. Ph. Visser t Hooft. Liberal Morality and the Extinction of Cultures; A. W. Musschenga. The Liberal Arts: Should a Liberal State Support the Arts? C. W. Maris. Priorities in Collective Health Care Provision: Why the Search for Criteria Failed; G. den Hartogh. Integration, Community and Neutrality: Integrating the Mentally Disabled as an Interdependent Public Good; J. S. Reinders. The Paradox of Liberal Nationalism; F. Jacobs. Bibliography. Index of Subjects. Contributors.