CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Zala, Miklós István |
|---|---|
| Title | Standing as Equals: the Case of Religious and Cultural Exemptions |
| Summary | In recent years, political theorists have been showing increasing concern over the clashes and tensions between religious and cultural claims and generally applicable laws of liberal democracies. Religious/cultural exemptions under universal laws have become one of the most popular issues of the new millennium in the literature of political theory. However, there is no general consensus amongst political thinkers on which grounds can these exemptions be justified. In the following thesis, I argue that exemptions from generally applicable laws are justifiable on the grounds of the combination of Jonathan Quong’s fair equality of opportunity and Paul Bou-Habib’s perceived duty-based theories. I argue that the combination of these two arguments provides a better understanding than arguments based on luck egalitarianism which try to focus on the chance/choice distinction, and which is a very influential strand in multicultural debates. I argue that we should rather focus on individuals as fellow citizens who should have an equal standing in society. |
| Supervisor | Moles, Andres |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/zala_miklos-istvan.pdf |
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