A Defense of a Communitarian Concept of the Self
Author | : Tim Wickenhauser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Conservatism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tim Wickenhauser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Conservatism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark S. Cladis |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0804723656 |
In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.
Author | : Catherine Galko Campbell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400779178 |
This book examines the conception of the person at work in John Rawls’s writings from Theory of Justice to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. The book aims to show that objections to Rawls’s political conception of the person fail and that a Rawlsian conception of political identity is defensible. The book shows that the debate between liberals and communitarians is relevant to the current debate regarding perfectionism and neutrality in politics, and clarifies the debate between Rawls and communitarians in a way that will promote fruitful discussion on the issue of political identity. It does this by providing a clearer account of a conception of personal identity according to which persons are socially constituted, including the intuitions and assumptions underlying the communitarians’ conception of persons as “socially constituted.” It examines the communitarian objections to liberal political theory and to the liberal conception of persons, the “unencumbered self.” The book differentiates between two types of objection to the liberal conception of persons: the metaphysical and normative. It explains Rawls's political conception of persons, and the metaphysical and normative commitments Rawls incurs—and does not incur—in virtue of that conception. It shows that both kind of objection to Rawls's political conception of the person fail. Finally, modifying Rawls’s political conception of the person, a Rawlsian conception of political identity is explained and defended.
Author | : Markate Daly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Intended as a supplement in Social and Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Ideologies, and Democratic Theory, as well as a core volume for courses taught exclusively on communitarianism. That liberal democratic theory needs to be changed and our institutions need to be reformed is an argument strenuously resisted by many political philosophers. The most interesting development in political philosophy in the last 15 years has been the communitarian critique of liberalism. Communitarians insist that deficiencies in liberal theory are directly to blame for the declining fortunes of the American people. They propose to substitute the values of community for values of liberty and equality as the guiding ideal of our culture.
Author | : Charles E. Larmore |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521338912 |
Discusses three forms of moral complexity that have often been neglected by moral and political philosophers. Virtue is dependent upon judgment; liberalism does not necessarily inform private life; and, morality must needs be heterogenous.
Author | : Tsz Wan Andrew Hung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1030 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John RAWLS |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674042603 |
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1989-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor’s goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
Author | : Dónal P. O’Mathúna |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319927221 |
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive. Providing analysis of core concepts, and with real-world relevance, this book should be of interest to disaster scholars and researchers, those working in ethics and political philosophy, as well as policy makers, humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations..
Author | : Jeffrey Church |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271068264 |
G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality—to consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of community above the individual. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are important, because the proper defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the individual—what he calls the “historical individual,” which goes beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.