Social Equality, Recognition, and Preconditions of Good Life
Social Inequality Today (2003)
| Abstract | In this paper I analyze interpersonal and institutional recognition and discuss the relation of different types of recognition to various principles of social justice (egalitarianism, meritarianism, legitimate favouritism, principles of need and free exchange). Further, I try to characterize contours of good autonomous life, and ask what kind of preconditions it has. I will distinguish between five kinds of preconditions: psychological, material, cultural, intersubjective and institutional. After examining what the role of recognition is among such preconditions, and how they figure in the work of Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser and Charles Taylor, I suggest a somewhat complex and hopefully rich picture of interpersonal and institutional recognition as a precondition of autonomous good life. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Recognition Axel Honneth Social Justice Charles Taylor Anerkennung Nancy Fraser Preconditions of good life Positive freedom | |||||||||
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