Det goda livet: En normativ diskussion om statlig opinionsbildning för ett dygdigt leverne

Sammanfattning: This paper has two ambitions that both stem from the question: can government conveyance of a virtuous lifestyle be justified? The first ambition is to examine if the government should promote the majority opinion of a virtuous life to its people – and does this from two different perspectives: a classic liberal perspective – from which there was no unified answer – and a communitarian perspective, which demonstrates why the government can’t be neutral, and has to encourage the people to live a certain way. The second ambition of this paper is to use arguments drawn from the liberal and communitarian perspectives to give a verdict and answer the question. This paper reaches the conclusion that such a government can’t be justified – and that anyone who requests such a government not neccesarily claims that government sanctioned oppression against the deviant was right, but neither does he claim it was wrong as he requests a government which actions are based on the same principles as the government of oppression.