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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. Firstly, the limits of acceptable state perfectionism are examined, not on a general level but by reference to some particular concerns of government policy; transgenic animals, future generations, the promotion of the arts, minority cultures, the allocation of scarce health care resources, the integration of mentally handicapped people into the community, and the expression of national identities. Secondly, the book as a whole evaluates the argument that the government has a special task to produce or to maintain intrinsically collective aspects of the good life, because these are to be seen as public goods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Good Life as a Public Good
Editors: Govert A. den Hartogh
Series Title: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6167-1Published: 29 February 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5397-8Published: 15 December 2010
Series ISSN: 1387-6678
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 171