Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET December 2014 Political Science
Which of the following is not a feature of liberal communitarian debate?
AConception of self: 'encumbered' vs 'unencumbered'
BUniversalism vs particularism
CState neutrality vs non-neutrality of state
DTotalitarianism: 'procedural' vs 'communitarian' ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Totalitarianism: 'procedural' vs 'communitarian' — The aspect that is not a feature of the liberal communitarian debate is totalitarianism cast as procedural versus communitarian.
Explanation
★The aspect that is not a feature of the liberal communitarian debate is totalitarianism cast as procedural versus communitarian.
★The real fault lines of that debate lie elsewhere, in rival conceptions of the self, of moral universalism, and of state neutrality.
★One axis is the encumbered versus the unencumbered self, the communitarian charge that liberals imagine individuals stripped of community ties.
★Another is universalism versus particularism, and a third is the neutrality versus the non-neutrality of the state.
★The debate took off after John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) recast liberalism on Kantian lines.
★So the procedural versus communitarian framing of totalitarianism is the correct answer.
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