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81. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Andrew Light Introduction: Social Hope and Environmental Philosophy
82. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Yolanda Estes Society, Embodiment, and Nature in J. G. Fichte's Practical Philosophy
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In this essay, I argue that society, embodiment, and nature are crucial to J. G. Fichte’s practical philosophy, which implies responsibilities regarding the natural environment and its non-rational denizens. In section one, I summarize Fichte’s argument that self-consciousness presupposes social interaction between embodied rational beings within a sensible environment. In section two, I explain the relation between rational beings and human bodies. In section three, I discuss the relation between rational beings and nature. In section four, I describe ethical duties toward rational beings. In conclusion, I examine ethical duties regarding non-rational beings.
83. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
E. E. Flynn Living Right: Need and Punishment in Kant and Hegel
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In this essay I contrast Kant and Hegel on the so-called right of necessity, or distress. The contrast is significant because it summarizes succinctly the difference between their respective philosophies of right. Furthermore, I take the difference to indicate what in Hegel’s philosophy of right makes it preferable to Kant’s. In sum, the issue between the two is whether or not the concept of justice is determined in part by what I term in the paper the vicissitudes of making a worthwhile living.
84. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Andrew F. Smith Pluralism and Political Legitimacy: Toward a Perfectionist Defense of Deliberative Democracy
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In recent writings, both John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas address how to ensure that all reasonable citizens have the capacity to live a good life when there exist in modern society a wide variety of competing conceptions thereof. Yet, according to James Bohman, both thinkers in fact fail to resolve this “dilemma of the good.” He offers a deliberative conception of democracy intended to make up for their shortcomings. I argue, however, that Bohman’s conception covertly relies upon moderately perfectionist values that cause him to fall prey to what Bert van den Brink calls the “tragic predicament” of liberalism: he cannot articulate howa resolution to the dilemma of the good can (seem to) be achieved without defending ideals that let some doctrines of the good life appear more worthy of state promotion than others. But far from undermining Bohman’s conception, explicit acknowledgement of his moderate perfectionism can, ironically, serve to strengthen it.
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Greg Johnson On the Importance of Reversibility in Deliberative Democracy
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In this essay I argue that proponents of deliberative democracy too quickly assume that the idea of reciprocity is the best moral foundation. I further argue that a more fundamental ground, namely that of reversibility, is overlooked, a ground that transforms the nature of deliberative interaction. Thus, my aim is to develop this alternate ground and indicate how it augments the notion of democratic reciprocity. I demonstrate how the appeal to reason by proponents of deliberative democracy is an epistemic ground from which a notion of reciprocity emerges that regulates what is and is not deliberatively acceptable. I contend, however, thatsuch a reliance on this epistemic ground of reason overlooks a more fundamental ground without which reciprocity is impossible. This other ground that I develop is what I call the phenomenological ground of reversibility.
86. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Edmund F. Byrne The Post-9/11 State Of Emergency: Reality versus Rhetoric
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After the 9/11 attacks the U.S. administration went beyond emergency response towards imperialism, but cloaked its agenda in the rhetoric of fighting ‘terrorists’ and ‘terrorism.’ After distinguishing between emergency thinking and emergency planning, I question the administration’s “war on terrorism” rhetoric in three stages. First, upon examining the post-9/11 antiterrorism discourse I find that it splits into two agendas: domestic, protect our infrastructure; and foreign, select military targets. Second, I review (legitimate) approaches to emergency planning already in place. Third, after reviewing what philosophers have said aboutemergencies, I recommend they turn their attention to the biases inherent in and misleading uses of antiterrorist terminology.
87. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Ovadia Ezra Human Rights: The Inapplicable Concept
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This paper seeks to ascertain the reasons for the regrettable gap between the extent to which human rights are acknowledged in many countries, and the extent to which residents of those countries in fact are able to enjoy these rights. However, when we seek to assess to what extent residents of those countries in fact enjoy these rights, the findings are somewhat depressing. In this paper I suggest an explanation for this phenomenon and argue that its cause is built into the very structure of Human Rights as these have hitherto been understood. I maintain that because the addressees of such rights are the states’ governments, there is no external body that functions as the guarantor of such rights that has the authority and power to force the governments when they renege on their correlative duties as the addressees of Human Rights.
88. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Catriona Sandilands Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic
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This paper raises the issue of governmentality in popular environmental understandings of the (human) body. Understood as object-subjects of environmental management, “ecological bodies politic” are increasingly produced and organized by disciplinary discourses that have the (ironic) effect of reifying, enclosing and surveilling corporeal experiences in the world, especially for bodies deemed unruly. This paper thus deploys queer theories of corporeal materialization (Butler), and queer histories of corporeal-ecological abjection, toward a political account of embodiment oriented to creative opening and transgression, rather than the increasingly hysterical bodily managerialism of pollution discourses. This paper also performs, through the transgressive presence of body narratives from dance experiences generated as part of a workshop on Japanese Butoh traditions, the kind of practiced body awareness suggested in the political account.
89. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Edmund F. Byrne Commentary on Lawrence Blum's "I'm Not a Racist, But…": The Moral Quandary of Race
90. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Matthew R. Silliman Racism As Personal Vice and Structural Problem: A Comment on Lawrence Blum
91. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
William Hawk Pacifism and SociaI Responsibility
92. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Martin Gunderson Protecting Commerical Speech: Advertising and Advocating Illegal Activities
93. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
John Deigh Human Rights and Population Control
94. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
L. Hugh Cox The Uses of Analogy in Land Ethics
95. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
David Ward Human Rights and National Self-Detennination
96. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Peter French It’s a Damn Shame
97. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Howard McGary The Concept of Resistance: Black Resistance During Slavery
98. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Mary Briody Mahowald Possibilities for Moral Agency in Children
99. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Jonathan F. Galloway The Logics Meta-Logic and Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
100. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Louis G. Lombardi The Justification of Rights