%0 Journal Article %T Liberalismo, justi£¿a social e responsabilidade individual %A Vita %A Alvaro de %J Dados %D 2011 %I Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S0011-52582011000400003 %X the study examines the contemporary normative debate on social justice from the perspective of the normative political theory of ¡°egalitarian liberalism¡±. contrary to an anti-egalitarian liberal political theory, or ¡°libertarianism¡±, the argument is that a notion of ¡°effective freedom¡±, and not negative freedom, is central to egalitarian liberalism. additionally, in contrast to a theoretical current of egalitarianism known as ¡°luck egalitarianism¡±, the article further argues that although egalitarian liberalism assigns special importance to individual responsibility, it does so (unlike ¡°luck egalitarianism¡±) without implying any concession to the conservative critique of egalitarianism and the state¡¯s redistributive action. %K egalitarian liberalism %K social justice %K luck egalitarianism %K individual responsibility. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0011-52582011000400003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en