Nussbaum zur linken Seite des Aristotelismus

Die griechische Zeitschrift cogito veröffentlichte in ihrer Ausgabe 5 (applied ethics) ein Interview mit Martha Nussbaum, in dem diese einige interessante Bemerkungen über die politischen Verflechtungen des Neoaristotelismus fallen lässt: Well, there are many different ways in which a kind of quasi-Aristotelian theory of the good has entered into what we might call liberal political theory; after all it didn't start with me. It started long ago, for example in England with T. H. Green and Ernest Barker, who were perfectionist socialists. They used the Aristotelian notion of human functioning to argue in favour of compulsory education. They were an important and a clear precedent for my position. In fact, I didn't read them until much later, but anyway I now see that they were important and a precedent; their form of liberalism was very comprehensive, it was closer to something like Joseph Raz's view today. I would call that a form of comprehensive liberalism, because a notion of autonomy is used across the board to talk about lives that are well lived and so on. I think the political form of liberalism, in which we don't advocate a comprehensive doctrine of autonomy ...
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