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Aas, Sean D.
Understanding Global Injustice.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2013, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320500/ 
► "We do not live in a just world," Thomas Nagel tells us. "This may be the least controversial claim one can make in political theory".…
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▼ "We do not live in a just world," Thomas Nagel tells
us. "This may be the least controversial claim one can make in
political theory". Surely Nagel is right about this. The world at
large, with its severe deprivations and massive inequalities, is
clearly not just. What is more controversial is that the world is
also unjust. Or anyway, that it is unjust in anything like the
distinctive way that many existing societies are unjust. Indeed
Nagel himself seems to deny this, as do many other contemporary
philosophers and
political theorists.
My dissertation argues, against these views, that the global
institutional order is unjust in much the same way that many or all
existing state-based societies are unjust" because it fails to give
everyone who contributes to it a fair return on their contribution.
Our concept of this social sort of justice, I argue in Chapter 1,
is about the moral quality of the sorts of distributive practices
characteristic of state-based societies. In Chapter 2, I argue that
the state system is evaluable at the bar of social justice for the
same reasons state-based property system are" each affects
distribution in a fundamental way, by making it possible to
securely control determinate things. Chapter 3 argues that state
property systems are constituted by the equal contributions of all
those
subject to them, and thus that they are presumptively unjust
if they do not equally distribute the productive opportunities they
generate. And Chapter 4 argues that much the same goes for the
state sovereignty system itself" it also employs the equal
contributions of those
subject to it to produce a kind of
opportunity, which, therefore, justice presumptively requires it to
distribute equally. It clearly does not meet this egalitarian
requirement: thus, I conclude, it is socially unjust.
Advisors/Committee Members: Estlund, David (Director), Larmore, Charles (Reader), Dreier, James (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Philosophy
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Aas, S. D. (2013). Understanding Global Injustice. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320500/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Aas, Sean D. “Understanding Global Injustice.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320500/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Aas, Sean D. “Understanding Global Injustice.” 2013. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Aas SD. Understanding Global Injustice. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320500/.
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Aas SD. Understanding Global Injustice. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320500/
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Hayes, Mason.
Responding Morally to Terrorism.
Degree: 2016, University of Nevada – Reno
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2163
► Terrorism poses intellectual challenges for just war theory. In my thesis, I argue that states who have experienced a terrorist attack should not declare war…
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▼ Terrorism poses intellectual challenges for just war theory. In my thesis, I argue that states who have experienced a terrorist attack should not declare war immediately because a moral state response should be proportionate to the severity of the attack. I offer a terrorism response scale that states should consult if they wish to respond to the attack morally. The scale has five levels of proportionate response to different levels of terrorist attacks. It takes into consideration the death toll of the attack, how much damage was done, how much fear it caused, and also the strength of the group and how likely it is the group will or can attack again. This argument fills a gap in the existing philosophical scholarship and offers a theory of moral state response to terrorism that is different from just war theory.
Advisors/Committee Members: Schweitzer, Katharine J (advisor), Rondel, David (committee member), Martin, Susanne (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Political philosophy
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Hayes, M. (2016). Responding Morally to Terrorism. (Thesis). University of Nevada – Reno. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2163
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hayes, Mason. “Responding Morally to Terrorism.” 2016. Thesis, University of Nevada – Reno. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2163.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hayes, Mason. “Responding Morally to Terrorism.” 2016. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hayes M. Responding Morally to Terrorism. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2163.
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Hayes M. Responding Morally to Terrorism. [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2163
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University of Guelph
3.
King, Mary.
Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism.
Degree: MA, Department of Philosophy, 2020, University of Guelph
URL: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/21257
► If we desire the preservation of public spaces, then liberalism is not a suitable framework to this end. The discursive nature of liberalism combined with…
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▼ If we desire the preservation of public spaces, then liberalism is not a suitable framework to this end. The discursive nature of liberalism combined with the
political liberalist value of neutrality renders disagreements about public space inert. This is connected to a desire to reduce interference that I argue is at the heart of increased privatization of public spaces. Liberalism abstracts too far from land, making it inappropriate for navigating issues that are about the physicality of public space itself. Liberalism hierarchizes uses of public space, facilitated through liberal conceptions of land as property. I suggest three alternative theories that could better frame public space: 1) solidarism, 2) an ethical-ecological approach, and finally, 3) an Indigenous approach that centers the project of decolonization. These frameworks do not imply liberal property ownership, and they hold potential for public space – and therefore land – being a more integrated part of our communities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Freedman, Karyn (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; political philosophy; Public space
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King, M. (2020). Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism. (Masters Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/21257
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
King, Mary. “Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism.” 2020. Masters Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/21257.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
King, Mary. “Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism.” 2020. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
King M. Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Guelph; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/21257.
Council of Science Editors:
King M. Public Space and the Limits of Liberalism. [Masters Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2020. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/21257
University of Oxford
4.
Lazar-Gillard, Orlando.
Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d631dd22-77f6-4635-a260-7a355ef0fddb
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780618
► Republicanism - in particular the 'Roman' or 'neo-Roman' republicanism of Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner - has brought notions of domination and power to the…
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▼ Republicanism - in particular the 'Roman' or 'neo-Roman' republicanism of Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner - has brought notions of domination and power to the forefront of political philosophy. Its proponents argue that non-domination is a radical ideal, one that is demanding and practical, and which can ground an effective and open-ended "normative and institutional research program". I hope to show that non-domination in the sense envisioned by most mainstream republicans is indeed a radical ideal, but one that requires much more substantial change than many of those republicans envision. Specifically, this thesis intervenes in ongoing debates within and around contemporary republicanism about the demands of non-domination when it comes to the organisation of work. It has both a critical and a constructive element. Where they pay attention to the organisation of work at all, the typical republican strategy involves little more than strong workplace regulation and some very limited mechanisms of worker voice. This set of proposals is coupled with tentative support for a universal basic income, or other ways of lowering the exit costs of any given job. After defending the application of personal accounts of domination to the world of work, I critically assess this mainstream republican approach to the workplace before arguing in favour of two broad strategies that better satisfy a commitment to non-domination: the pursuit of workplace democracy and the reduction of work. I argue that both strategies ought to be cornerstones of an anti-domination approach to the workplace, whether from a republican perspective or not.
Subjects/Keywords: Political theory; Political philosophy
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Lazar-Gillard, O. (2018). Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d631dd22-77f6-4635-a260-7a355ef0fddb ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780618
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lazar-Gillard, Orlando. “Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d631dd22-77f6-4635-a260-7a355ef0fddb ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780618.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lazar-Gillard, Orlando. “Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism.” 2018. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lazar-Gillard O. Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d631dd22-77f6-4635-a260-7a355ef0fddb ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780618.
Council of Science Editors:
Lazar-Gillard O. Work, domination, and contemporary republicanism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d631dd22-77f6-4635-a260-7a355ef0fddb ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780618
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Greear, Jake P.
Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism.
Degree: 2013, Johns Hopkins University
URL: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36971
► This dissertation examines the venerated status of certain practices in the history of American environmentalism, particularly wilderness walking, traditional farming, and the scientific field work…
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▼ This dissertation examines the venerated status of certain practices in the history of American environmentalism, particularly wilderness walking, traditional farming, and the scientific field work of naturalists. These practices, which, following Foucault, I call “environmental techniques of the self,” are held up as ways of enacting, restoring, or cultivating a rightful relationship to the natural world. Specifically, I examine Henry David Thoreau on walking, Wendell Berry on work, Martin Heidegger on “dwelling,” and Aldo Leopold on ecological field work. Through critical engagements with these authors I show how environmental techniques of the self enact ecological subjectivities with reference to various figurations of perceptual truth, and how in this way they perform “nature” as a normative and critical concept. However, I suggest that these traditional ecological practices are ill suited to a world that no longer seems holistically natural. Seeking an
alternative modality of ecological practice I explore an under-acknowledged affinity between environmental
philosophy and the practice of tinkering.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mao, Douglas (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Ecology; Political Philosophy
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Greear, J. P. (2013). Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism. (Thesis). Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved from http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36971
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Greear, Jake P. “Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism.” 2013. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36971.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Greear, Jake P. “Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism.” 2013. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Greear JP. Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism. [Internet] [Thesis]. Johns Hopkins University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36971.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Greear JP. Walking, Working, and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism. [Thesis]. Johns Hopkins University; 2013. Available from: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36971
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
McMaster University
6.
Marijanovic, Daniel.
A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age.
Degree: MA, 2016, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20555
► The objective of this thesis is to show that conceptualizing democracy in terms of "agonism" best addresses the ills of post-democracy. I characterize post-democracy as…
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▼ The objective of this thesis is to show that conceptualizing democracy in terms of "agonism" best addresses the ills of post-democracy. I characterize post-democracy as a democratic order that has all the trappings of democracy, including multi-party elections, but which has been enmeshed in a particular discourse or discourses that have become hegemonic. This has the effect of effacing real political difference as though various political actors in a democratic order might be different in word and name, they converge on major policy points. To show agonistic democracy as the best conception, I compare and contrast it to deliberative democracy. Briefly, deliberative democracy emphasizes rational argument and reaching consensus, whereas agonistic democracy valorizes fierce political conflict between competing hegemonic projects. I argue that an emphasis on consensus does not address the specific nature of the post-democratic age, while a valorization of fierce conflict ensures the facilitation of real political difference requisite for a vibrant democratic politics. Focusing on Chantal Mouffe's conception of agonistic democracy, I identify some limitations which I attempt to overcome, namely her insistence on a form of consensus by which fierce political conflict should be bounded in order to stabilize democratic confrontations. I argue that it is possible to envision agonistic democracy in a purely procedural way, without any such consensus. Recognizing post-democracy to be a worrying reality in contemporary democratic societies, and the growing dissatisfaction with this situation, I believe democracy requires serious re-examination. This thesis does exactly that.
Thesis
Master of Arts (MA)
Advisors/Committee Members: Enns, Diane, Philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy Political Theory
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Marijanovic, D. (2016). A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20555
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Marijanovic, Daniel. “A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age.” 2016. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20555.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Marijanovic, Daniel. “A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age.” 2016. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Marijanovic D. A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20555.
Council of Science Editors:
Marijanovic D. A Defence of Agonistic Democracy in a Post-Democratic Age. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/20555
University of Missouri – Columbia
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Zhang, Sheng.
Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy.
Degree: 2016, University of Missouri – Columbia
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10180781
► My dissertation aims to answer two questions: (1) Is democracy epistemically valuable? (2) Is the epistemic value of democracy, if it has any, necessary…
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▼ My dissertation aims to answer two questions: (1) Is democracy epistemically valuable? (2) Is the epistemic value of democracy, if it has any, necessary for justifying its legitimacy? I argue that democracy in certain form can be epistemically valuable. However, I also argue that the epistemic value of democracy is not necessary for justifying its legitimacy. To defend the epistemic value of democracy, I propose a post-deliberation version of Condorcet’s jury theorem. I argue that this version of the jury theorem can avoid the common challenges against the classic version. To reject the necessity of epistemic value for democratic legitimacy, I argue that, given that the epistemic value of democracy is subject to disagreement, it cannot be used to justify legitimacy. In addition, I provide a purely proceduralist argument for democratic legitimacy, which appeals to the egalitarian principle that every citizens ought to be equally respected by the state. This argument, if succeeds, shows that the epistemic value of democracy is not necessary for justifying democratic legitimacy.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political science
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Zhang, S. (2016). Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy. (Thesis). University of Missouri – Columbia. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10180781
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhang, Sheng. “Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy.” 2016. Thesis, University of Missouri – Columbia. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10180781.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhang, Sheng. “Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy.” 2016. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhang S. Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10180781.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Zhang S. Epistemic democracy and political legitimacy. [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10180781
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Iowa State University
8.
Apostolaki, Eleni.
Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible.
Degree: 2016, Iowa State University
URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15656
► CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION Our society is often divided between good and evil, right and wrong. However, the distinction between the two is not always that…
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▼ CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
Our society is often divided between good and evil, right and wrong. However, the distinction between the two is not always that self-evident or can be taken light-heartedly. The issue I will address here qualifies as one of the most polarizing issues, whether abortion should be legally permissible and if so, under what conditions.
Posing this question we see people covering the whole strictness spectrum of either abortion-supporting or abortion-condemning groups, advocating their stances, based on arguments that they find concrete enough to win the “contest” and prevail against their adversaries. What are the questions we should ask to judge the legality of abortion? In my thesis I will discuss biology and embryology arguments, as well as arguments about the moral status of the fetus, ethics and the moral framework of abortion. Not limited to that I will address what are the legal rights of the mother and the fetus respectively should be. I will briefly refer to the Law but I will approach the legality of abortion through philosophical argumentation and the role of the state. Through the literature and my personal argumentation I will show why abortion should be legally impermissible with the exception of situations where the life of the mother is at stake both in physical and mental sense, when the burden of the pregnancy is humongous evolution or where severe fetal deformities will lead to a painful and devastating life of the fetus assuming it will be even born in the first place. Other exceptions apply for the situations of rape and incest and generally situations of coercion; both physical and mental.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science
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Apostolaki, E. (2016). Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible. (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15656
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Apostolaki, Eleni. “Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible.” 2016. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15656.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Apostolaki, Eleni. “Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible.” 2016. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Apostolaki E. Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15656.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Apostolaki E. Under what conditions, if any, should be abortion legally permissible. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15656
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Columbia University
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Avgousti, Andreas.
Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought.
Degree: 2015, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KP817S
► Despite the fact that reputation is a feature of Plato’s work and context, scholars have scarcely addressed the place of reputation in Plato’s thought. Herein…
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▼ Despite the fact that reputation is a feature of Plato’s work and context, scholars have scarcely addressed the place of reputation in Plato’s thought. Herein I ask: ‘what is reputation (doxa) for Plato?’ and provide an answer by turning to the political orders (politeiai) described in the Republic, Laws, and Menexenus.
In Chapter 1 I demonstrate the horizontal relationships of mutual dependence between rulers and ruled in the politeia of the Republic. It is in the epistemic configuration of the ruled where the economy of reputation is sourced and distributed. I argue that, first, the text explicitly engages with and seeks to correct the common opinions about justice and its relationship to political power and, second, that the philosopher must care about how philosophy appears to the city at large. I end with a consideration of how the Republic attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of philosophy. The images of the cave, the ship, and the bride show how and why philosophy’s bad reputation is contingent rather than necessary.
In Chapter 2 I establish the role of reputation in the circumstances described and enacted in the founding of Magnesia, the politeia of the Laws. Through its exhortation to the incoming Dorian colonists to pursue a reputation for virtue, the law code exercises normative force over the disposition of human nature to excessive self-love and also transforms the colonists into Magnesian citizens. The legislator, voiced by the Athenian Stranger who is the principal interlocutor in the dialogue, urges each individual to appear as they are, and reinvents the undesirable features of Dorian constitutions. If this politeia is to come about, its founder and interlocutor in the dialogue, Cleinias the Cnossian, must become a Magnesian; the Athenian must succeed in exhorting the ambivalent Cleinias to seek a good reputation among the future Magnesians.
In Chapter 3 I turn to how Magnesia is maintained. This politeia suffers from, and has to cope with, the pathologies of agonism. It does so via the operation of the social mechanisms of praise and blame that the law code sets forth and the citizens act out. The institutional practices such as the daily athletic contests encourage Magnesians to become similar in judgment and, therefore, to correctly distribute political honors and offices. I go on to argue that the city’s foreign policy aims at peace and at deterring aggressors. Such a policy is conducive to a more stable interpolis environment, which, in turn, maintains Magnesia.
In Chapter 4 I argue that the vision of the politeia found in the Menexenus is best understood as an intergenerational multitude. Reputation is key to reconstituting order in these intergenerational relationships. In a dialogue that contains a funeral oration written by Aspasia and delivered by Socrates to the young Menexenus, reputation is a defining characteristic of the politeia with the multitude being the source of reputational judgments. Reputation also operates remedially at a critical…
Subjects/Keywords: Reputation; Political science – Philosophy; Philosophy – Political aspects; Plato; Political science; Philosophy
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Avgousti, A. (2015). Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KP817S
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Avgousti, Andreas. “Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KP817S.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Avgousti, Andreas. “Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought.” 2015. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Avgousti A. Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KP817S.
Council of Science Editors:
Avgousti A. Politeiai and Reputation in Plato's Thought. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KP817S
Columbia University
10.
Gomes, Bjorn Wee.
The Desire and Struggle for Recognition.
Degree: 2017, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8765M12
► In recent decades, the politics of recognition has become an important theme in political and social theorizing about justice and freedom. The desire for recognition,…
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▼ In recent decades, the politics of recognition has become an important theme in political and social theorizing about justice and freedom. The desire for recognition, that is to say, the desire to have the approval, esteem, consideration or respect of those around us, whether as individuals or members of social groups, has in fact been described as a vital human need. The distribution of rights and obligations, wealth and resources, all turn on the theme of recognition; failures to recognize the humanity of others or their particular identities as worthy of respect or esteem often result in political and social outcomes that are deeply unjust. The central idea behind these debates is that an individual’s identity – her self-understanding of who she is – and her social and political standing in any organized community – the rights she has and the protections she possesses under the law – are all in part shaped by the recognition or misrecognition of others. As Charles Taylor describes it, a social and political world that reflects back to individuals a demeaning picture of themselves can lead to severe psychic damage and cause real harm; a political society that simply refuses to recognize the identities of certain groups of individuals as having any standing at all can result in radical denials of the basic rights individuals are entitled to as members of a political community. Indeed, many of the major cultural, ethnic, racial, gender and religious movements of the last decade are seen by scholars as organized around the principle of recognition – the struggle to have one’s identity be recognized by others as worthy of respect.
In trying to make sense of the politics of recognition, scholars have, for the most part, turned to Hegel’s account of the struggle for recognition for guidance. His most prominent remarks on this subject occur in the Phenomenology of Spirit, where he discusses the struggle for recognition through what is famously known as the master-slave dialectic. While Hegel certainly offers an extremely sophisticated and important account of the subject, and although many have shifted the debate to other areas of Hegel’s corpus, the general neglect of philosophical treatments on this issue by other thinkers in the history of thought is regrettable.
In this dissertation, I examine some of the most important precursors to Hegel on this subject, arguing that they did indeed take the struggle for recognition seriously. Moreover, I hope to show that their reflections on the subject are themselves important and worthy of consideration, not only historically, but also for how we might think about the struggle for recognition today. This dissertation focuses on the social and political thought of Bernard Mandeville, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. It has two main aims. First and most principally, I aim to throw new light on each of their political philosophies by examining their ideas through the lens of the struggle for recognition. Each of them, I will argue, in varying ways set the…
Subjects/Keywords: Political psychology; Political science; Political science – Philosophy; Recognition (Psychology); Philosophy
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Gomes, B. W. (2017). The Desire and Struggle for Recognition. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8765M12
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gomes, Bjorn Wee. “The Desire and Struggle for Recognition.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8765M12.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gomes, Bjorn Wee. “The Desire and Struggle for Recognition.” 2017. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gomes BW. The Desire and Struggle for Recognition. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8765M12.
Council of Science Editors:
Gomes BW. The Desire and Struggle for Recognition. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8765M12
11.
Voronoff, Timothy J.
Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions.
Degree: 2009, New School University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371775
► This dissertation discusses the role that the passions play in political thinking. I use Hobbes' philosophy to illustrate a science of the passions that…
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▼ This dissertation discusses the role that the passions play in political thinking. I use Hobbes' philosophy to illustrate a science of the passions that entails supplanting one passion for another, mostly in the cases of passions of fear and hope. Spinoza's philosophy is brought forth as a counter solution to Hobbes' science of the passions, namely in terms of the ways that myth and narrative can be used constructively towards political stability through the promotion of semi-rational mechanisms that govern the passions through selfishness and not traditional virtue. Myths and narratives can sometimes provide a stabilizing affect on the way that the imagination is used, changing and disrupting the vacillation of passions that inform one's ideas and desires. Political organization therefore can be improved by cultivating narratives and myths that lead the multitude towards behaving semi-rationally. Spinoza's philosophy is used to demonstrate how ideology relates to myth and narrative in evoking a vacillation of the passions in the multitude and is shown to offer a practical solution to the problem of nonrational behavior. By focusing on the passions, Spinoza is able to identify the causes for non-rational behavior and provides a solution that guarantees political stability through an expectation of selfish behavior. This explication and interpretation of Spinoza's political philosophy is offered as a response to Hobbes; focusing on the ways in which the passions play a role in thinking. While in the 17th century the Church was largely responsible for educating individuals about the passions, and like Hobbes, substituted passions of fears with hopes instead of permanently remedying them. Today a pervasive network of media sources mass-communicate by way of activating passions at the expense of reason that could otherwise cultivate political stability not only through myth and narrative but through ideological mechanisms which make the behavior of the multitude semi-rational and more democratic. Spinoza's insight into the role that the passions play in the formation of ideas about human sociability offers a new understanding into the usefulness of ideology and other social mechanisms and institutions in reshaping the non-rational passions of individuals within the multitude into more stabilizing patterns of behavior.
Subjects/Keywords: Religion, Philosophy of; Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Voronoff, T. J. (2009). Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions. (Thesis). New School University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371775
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Voronoff, Timothy J. “Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions.” 2009. Thesis, New School University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371775.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Voronoff, Timothy J. “Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions.” 2009. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Voronoff TJ. Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions. [Internet] [Thesis]. New School University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371775.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Voronoff TJ. Ruling passion| The use of myth and narrative in place of reason in politics; Spinoza's proposed solution to Hobbes' science of the passions. [Thesis]. New School University; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371775
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Bond University
12.
Brennan, Daniel.
A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel.
Degree: 2013, Bond University
URL: https://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/145
► This thesis argues that Václav Havel presents a cohesive political philosophy which he terms liberal agonism. In the thesis the author explores the main influences…
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▼ This thesis argues that Václav Havel presents a cohesive political philosophy which he terms liberal agonism. In the thesis the author explores the main influences on Havel‘s political philosophy. He describe what Havel means by his famous maxim "live in truth," claiming that what Havel means is that to live in truth, one must continually engage in a process of self-agonism in order to be existentially honest with oneself. Further to this, he claims that in Havel‘s writings there is the idea that in order for self-agonism to be fully utilised, the state must take an active interest in encouraging self-agonism through a liberal philosophy. This thesis spells out Havel‘s own unique political philosophy. The author argues that a liberal agonism is a political philosophy in which the state allows, celebrates and encourages a process of self-interrogation through which existential identities are expressed and acted upon.
Subjects/Keywords: Havel, Václav; Political science Philosophy.; Philosophy (0422)
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Brennan, D. (2013). A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel. (Thesis). Bond University. Retrieved from https://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/145
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brennan, Daniel. “A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel.” 2013. Thesis, Bond University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/145.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brennan, Daniel. “A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel.” 2013. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Brennan D. A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel. [Internet] [Thesis]. Bond University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/145.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Brennan D. A reappraisal of the political philosophy of Vaclav Havel. [Thesis]. Bond University; 2013. Available from: https://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/145
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of KwaZulu-Natal
13.
Bhasikiti, Kudakwashe.
An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe.
Degree: 2017, University of KwaZulu-Natal
URL: https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/16938
► The absence of a sound and robust African political ideology grounded in Africa‘s traditional and cultural philosophy of hunhu/ubuntu has led to Africa‘s continued subjugation…
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▼ The absence of a sound and robust African
political ideology grounded in Africa‘s traditional
and cultural
philosophy of hunhu/ubuntu has led to Africa‘s continued subjugation and
domination by both Western and Eastern bloc nations. Africa has been compelled to choose
between capitalism or socialism which are both foreign ideologies. The author strongly
contests the above view and provides an alternative ideology which is in all respects African
and grounded in Africa‘s richest
philosophy of hunhu/ubuntu. Gutsaruzhinji, both as a
philosophy and
political ideology is entrenched in traditional African cultural ideals rooted in
the hunhu/ubuntu
philosophy. It is the author‘s contention that gutsaruzhinji is an authentic
African
philosophy, tested in Zimbabwean politics, deserves to be assigned both regional and
international status. The author believes, it is time for ubiquitous
philosophy that can be
employed to extricate Africa and its people from perpetual poverty and inequalities
perpetrated by colonialism. Gutsaruzhinji focuses on effectively meeting the social and
economic needs of all citizens who had been marginalised by colonial apartheid development
trajectory. This will immediately see the abandonment of both capitalism and socialism as
guiding ideologies in African social, economic and
political development. Gutsaruzhinji was
nurtured throughout the pre-colonial period and is evident in such traditional practices as
nhimbe or majangano or letseka, where free labour and service was given to enable every
member of the community to get food and be self-sufficient. The merit of this thesis is that it
brings a new African
political thought and consciousness needed to continue embracing
hunhu/ubuntu values which are key to the survival of African
Philosophy and good
governance. The two important vehicles of African identity and survival, hunhu/ubuntu and
gutsaruzhinji are set to continue defending the African intellectual territory and
political
landscape to eternity. This thesis is intended to also assist in extricating and blending African
philosophies like Ujamaa, Consciencism, Negritude and Humanism from the label ―African
Socialism and bond them with hunhu/ubuntu
philosophy, making them an integral part of
gutsaruzhinji polity. Africa will for the first time adopt and use its own
political ideology to
better the livelihood of its citizens.
Advisors/Committee Members: Matolino, Bernard. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Ubuntu.; Gutsaruzhinji.; African philosophy.; African political philosophy.
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Bhasikiti, K. (2017). An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe. (Thesis). University of KwaZulu-Natal. Retrieved from https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/16938
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bhasikiti, Kudakwashe. “An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe.” 2017. Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/16938.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bhasikiti, Kudakwashe. “An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe.” 2017. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Bhasikiti K. An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/16938.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bhasikiti K. An analysis of the Gutsaruzhinji polity in Zimbabwe. [Thesis]. University of KwaZulu-Natal; 2017. Available from: https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/16938
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Cape Town
14.
Williams, Graham Andrew.
Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism.
Degree: Image, Philosophy, 1992, University of Cape Town
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17058
► This dissertation adopts as its starting point the beliefs that moral truths can be known and that political philosophy is a branch of ethics. The…
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▼ This dissertation adopts as its starting point the beliefs that moral truths can be known and that
political philosophy is a branch of ethics. The author identifies three variants of libertarianism on the basis of their different treatments of the right to private property, which all three consider to be the cornerstone of
political libertarianism. The author evaluates the arguments of Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, John Hospers and Ayn Rand for the moral foundations of libertarianism and finds them to be methodologically inadequate. None is able to furnish libertarianism with the moral foundations it requires. Following the example of Jan Narveson in his recent defence of the libertarian idea, the author adopts as the correct metaphysic of morality the method of hypothetical contract. The contractarian method is capable of determining both the nature and the extent of moral obligation. From application of the method of hypothetical contract, the author concurs with the above-mentioned authors that morality is a system of rights and duties, i.e. deontological in character, and that persons are indeed bearers of moral, non-conventional rights. One of these rights is the negative right to equal social liberty. The author differs, however, in finding that contractarianism favours also a positive right to basic, standard welfare. Recognition of this latter right commits the author to a form of moderate or Lockean libertarianism that endorses the in-principle justice of coercive redistribution to meet persons' basic welfare. Consequently, the orthodox libertarianism advocated by Nozick, Rothbard, Hospers, Rand and Narveson which recognises only negative moral rights is rejected by the author. All of the libertarians cited accept in one form or another John Locke's labour theory of appropriation. However, the author eschews the standard reading of Locke they are wedded to. The standard reading premises the labour theory on a person's ownership of himself. This reading is rejected on the grounds that the idea of self-ownership is insufficiently determinate to act as a sure basis for establishing property rights in things one has mixed one's labour with. A reconstructed defence of the moral right to private property through labouring which avoids this difficulty is given. That defence is premised not on self-ownership but on the right to equal social liberty. Save for the requirement to meet basic welfare there are no limits to the extent of acquisition. The author argues that, despite his avowals to the contrary, Nozick in fact endorses a positive right to welfare, and that this positive right is one that is co-extensive with the right to basic welfare established by the method of hypothetical contract. Two arguments are given. The first argument draws on Nozick's Lockean proviso that an act of appropriation not worsen the position of others. The second is based upon the application to an envisaged society of libertarian-rights bearers of Nozick's clause that permits the violation of rights in order to avoid catastrophic…
Advisors/Committee Members: Brooks, David (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Philosophy
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Williams, G. A. (1992). Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism. (Thesis). University of Cape Town. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17058
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Williams, Graham Andrew. “Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism.” 1992. Thesis, University of Cape Town. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17058.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Williams, Graham Andrew. “Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism.” 1992. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Williams GA. Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Cape Town; 1992. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17058.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Williams GA. Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town; 1992. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17058
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
15.
Obi, Augustine Ifeanyi.
Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach.
Degree: PhD, 2019, Australian Catholic University
URL: https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/804
► This thesis examines the question of ethics in the thought of Martin Heidegger, focusing especially on his earlier works. While set against the backdrop…
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▼ This thesis examines the question of ethics in the thought of Martin Heidegger, focusing especially on his earlier works. While set against the backdrop of the ongoing controversy over Heidegger’s associations with National Socialism and the idiosyncratic anti-Semitism of passages in the recently published Schwarze Hefte, the thesis is not offered as a contribution to that debate, especially as it relates to its biographical content. Rather, the focus is on the extent to which the “fundamental ontology” Heidegger develops in the 1920s makes a serious contribution towards what I have referred to (with a nod to Frederick Olafson), as Heidegger’s ‘ontological ground of ethics’. In doing so, I explicitly take up Heidegger’s later claim (in his famous Brief über den 'Humanismus) that “If the name ‘ethics,’ in keeping with the basic meaning of the word ἦθος, should now say that ethics ponders the abode of the human being, then that thinking which thinks the truth of being as the primordial element of the human being … is in itself originary ethics [ursprüngliche Ethik].” (GA9: 356). As such, the thesis looks to examine a web of ideas in early Heideggerian texts of the 1920s that provide a compelling case for such an originary ground of ethics, in the sense of a condition of possibility for moral normativity. Of course, such a ground cannot be understood as a traditional metaphysical foundation, for like Dasein itself, it is an Ab-grund, a groundless ground, a factical ground. For this ethical ground is eventually nothing other than Dasein itself, a being that, as thrown, “never [has] … power over [its] ownmost Being from the ground up,” but must rather take on the ground of its dwelling (ἦθος) in the world. The thesis proceeds by examining four inter-related themes in the early Heidegger that I suggest interweave in providing what Heidegger refers to in Sein und Zeit (in terms of one of these themes), as “the existential conditions for the possibility of … morality in general, and for the possible forms which this may take factically.” (SZ: 286). The first chapter explores Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle’s notion of φρόνησις, as a lens through which the other three themes – Gewissen (chapter two), Eigentlichkeit (chapter three) and Mitsein (chapter four) – might be read most effectively for this purpose. In the light of Heidegger’s reading of φρόνησις as a practical skill for discerning the best way of acting in relation to factically available possibilities, Dasein can be understood as an ontologised ix version of Aristotle’s φρόνιμος. This phronetic Dasein’s deliberative action is tailored to a desired end (τέλος); that for the sake of which (οὗ ἕνεκα) it acts. In this way, ethics is grounded not as a ‘science’ of definite knowing (επιστήμη, or as a τέχνη), but as phronetic skill and understanding. In this light, Heidegger’s analyses of Gewissen, Eigentlichkeit, and Mitsein are inherently phronetic, and the abyssal ground of ethics that emerges is thoroughly hermeneutical. In his presentation of the authentic “call”…
Subjects/Keywords: Ethics and Political Philosophy; Theory and Philosophy
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Obi, A. I. (2019). Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach. (Doctoral Dissertation). Australian Catholic University. Retrieved from https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/804
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Obi, Augustine Ifeanyi. “Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Australian Catholic University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/804.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Obi, Augustine Ifeanyi. “Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach.” 2019. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Obi AI. Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Australian Catholic University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/804.
Council of Science Editors:
Obi AI. Heidegger's abyssal ground of ethics: A fourfold approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Australian Catholic University; 2019. Available from: https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/804
Boston University
16.
Solecki, Daniel Joseph.
"Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education.
Degree: 2018, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/33225
► This thesis analyzes and evaluates the scheme for civil education discussed in Thomas Hobbes’ political works. Hobbes argues in The Elements of Law, De Cive,…
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▼ This thesis analyzes and evaluates the scheme for civil education discussed in Thomas Hobbes’
political works. Hobbes argues in The Elements of Law, De Cive, and Leviathan that the preservation of
political order requires that all subjects learn the rationally grounded principles of
political theory. Some contemporary scholarship on this aspect of Hobbes’
political philosophy has confined its understanding of “Hobbesian education” to this: the sovereign’s system of true civil doctrines and the means for their dissemination. I argue that for the system of Hobbesian civil doctrines to function as it is intended, a public must also receive instruction in formal argumentation, a skill Hobbes calls “acquired wit” (L viii.13). I will show that the subjects’ cultivation of their individual reasoning abilities is required so the subjects are able to (1) understand the philosophical foundations of the sovereign’s power, (2) sufficiently resist the allure of obfuscating eloquence and other falsehoods, and (3) conduct themselves in accordance with Hobbes’ natural laws. Civil peace in a Hobbesian system requires that the public be able to tell the difference between sound and unsound inferences. If Hobbes did intend for the sovereign to instruct the public in “acquired wit,” contemporary scholars who have offered sympathetic appraisals of Hobbesian education are further vindicated.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sreedhar, Susanne (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Education; Hobbes; Reason; Political philosophy
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Solecki, D. J. (2018). "Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education. (Thesis). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/33225
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Solecki, Daniel Joseph. “"Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education.” 2018. Thesis, Boston University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/33225.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Solecki, Daniel Joseph. “"Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education.” 2018. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Solecki DJ. "Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education. [Internet] [Thesis]. Boston University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/33225.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Solecki DJ. "Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education. [Thesis]. Boston University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/33225
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Notre Dame
17.
William R Smith.
Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>.
Degree: Philosophy, 2018, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/n870zp41x4w
► Nearly all health systems and professionals espousean ideal of keeping to medical practitioners are purported to have special obligations to their patients. These include…
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▼ Nearly all health systems
and professionals espousean ideal of keeping to medical
practitioners are purported to have special obligations to their
patients. These include obligations to prioritize their patients
over others in their professional actions. They must do so even
when this requires foregoing the opportunity to produce a vastly
more just distribution of healthcare. Yet, the foundations of these
obligations are unclear at best. Some believe that these
obligations arise from the aims of medicine or some (social)
contract, but both types of foundations rest on spurious
metaphysical and epistemic claims. Moreover, the claims for such
goods, based in justice, of the exceptionally needed are
particularly stark. Hence, if we cannot find better foundations for
this ideal, there is grave risk that we do great harm and grave
injustice in complying with it. This
dissertation criticizes standard views of these foundations and
then offers an alternative according to which the legitimate
prescriptions of legitimate medical practices as well as those of
legitimate governments. The concept of legitimacy is already widely
invoked in medical ethics—particularly to justify and clarify the
demands of resource allocation, such as those that must cohere with
the special obligations mentioned above. Unfortunately, typical
views of legitimacy, to which one might appeal, cannot capture the
right extension of verdicts about resource allocation in critical
cases. In light of these failings, this dissertation
turns to the foundations of
political philosophy to develop a new
theory of legitimacy and authority of government and then extend
that theory to explain the legitimacy and authority of medical
practice. According to this theory, entities have authority over
their
subject if, only if, and because the subjects would better
fulfill their associative duties to each other. It then uses this
theory to illuminate important claims in the general theory of
partiality. This paves the way to developing a general framework
for understanding legitimate medical practice from this theory, the
implications of which the dissertation illustrates by expounding
both on the theory of special obligations of medical professionals
and on the theory of healthcare resource allocation in regard to
claims of medical necessity.
Advisors/Committee Members: Robert Audi, Research Director, Fritz Warfield, Committee Member, Paul Weithman, Committee Member.
Subjects/Keywords: Political Philosophy; Bioethics; Moral Philosophy; Medical Ethics
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Smith, W. R. (2018). Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>. (Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/n870zp41x4w
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Smith, William R. “Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>.” 2018. Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/n870zp41x4w.
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Smith, William R. “Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>.” 2018. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
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Smith WR. Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/n870zp41x4w.
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Smith WR. Legitimizing Medical Practice</h1>. [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2018. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/n870zp41x4w
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University of Arkansas
18.
Edens, Justin Edward.
Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility.
Degree: MA, 2017, University of Arkansas
URL: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1987
► In order to solve the apparent incompatibility between moral responsibility and determinism, it is necessary to understand moral responsibility in terms of the function…
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▼ In order to solve the apparent incompatibility between moral responsibility and determinism, it is necessary to understand moral responsibility in terms of the function it plays within moral systems, which is highly similar to the role played by laws within judicial systems. By showing that a conception of moral responsibility based upon desert is metaphysically untenable, a function-based conception will be showed to be much more likely. Furthermore, by considering why the desert-based conception has proven so resilient, insight into the moral responsibility/determinism debate may be possible. Lastly, this paper considers whether the problems with this conception can be solved, and if not, what kinds of problems would need to be avoided in considered alternate conceptions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Warren Herold, Eric Funkhouser, Richard Lee.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Religion; Theology; Ethics and Political Philosophy
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Edens, J. E. (2017). Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility. (Masters Thesis). University of Arkansas. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1987
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Edens, Justin Edward. “Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility.” 2017. Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas. Accessed January 24, 2021.
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1987.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Edens, Justin Edward. “Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility.” 2017. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Edens JE. Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1987.
Council of Science Editors:
Edens JE. Determinism and the Role of Moral Responsibility. [Masters Thesis]. University of Arkansas; 2017. Available from: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1987
19.
Oliva, Daniela Andrea.
Technological mediation| The implications of technology on the human experience.
Degree: 2013, California State University, Long Beach
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1521598
► Technology intervenes in nearly every aspect of life. A multitude of technologies and related fields from virtual reality to bio-genetics are fading the distinction…
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▼ Technology intervenes in nearly every aspect of life. A multitude of technologies and related fields from virtual reality to bio-genetics are fading the distinction between technology and biology, a phenomenon met with reservation and exuberance. Given the extent of technological mediation today and the promise of its future intensification, humanity is confronted with many unanswered questions. What constitutes life and how is it defined? What would it mean for humanity if technology continues to become more humanized, and evolves to become self-aware? I canvass the work of authors Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, and Kevin Kelly among others to provide proper scope and a continuum of thought in regards to the implications of technology on the human condition. I propose that it is appropriate to view technology as a pharmakon. Technology is enhancing and dehumanizing, a contradiction that cannot be resolved. Instead, it is something humanity must endure.
Subjects/Keywords: Metaphysics; Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Oliva, Daniela Andrea. “Technological mediation| The implications of technology on the human experience.” 2013. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1521598.
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Oliva, Daniela Andrea. “Technological mediation| The implications of technology on the human experience.” 2013. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
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Oliva DA. Technological mediation| The implications of technology on the human experience. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1521598.
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Oliva DA. Technological mediation| The implications of technology on the human experience. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2013. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1521598
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Yale University
20.
Kirshner, Alexander S.
A Theory of Militant Democracy.
Degree: 2011, Yale University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467905
► The right to participate politically is the moral foundation of democratic self-government, but in many countries large groups are opposed to democracy. Do democrats…
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▼ The right to participate politically is the moral foundation of democratic self-government, but in many countries large groups are opposed to democracy. Do democrats have an obligation to respect the political rights of antidemocrats? When is it legitimate to limit citizens' right to participate, for instance, by banning parties? How can democracy be defended without undermining or delegitimizing representative institutions? This dissertation explores the proceeding questions by integrating examinations of real-world crises in Germany, Turkey, India and the United States, with normative argument, and critical analysis of scholarship by Jeremy Waldron, Nancy Rosenblum, Joshua Cohen, and Michael Walzer, among others. Investigating the ethical questions posed by efforts to defend democracy, I engage with broader debates about the normative character of political partisanship, the limits of democratic tolerance, and the challenges raised by democratic diversity and the global spread of representative forms of government. My dissertation offers a novel perspective on threats to democracy by drawing out the implications of antidemocrats' right to participate. Traditionally, normative work in this area focused on a single question: can a majority legitimately decide to abolish representative government? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for example, famously inveighed against the Hobbesian prospect “that a whole people [could] alienate its freedom and subject itself to a king.” To defend themselves effectively, however, democratic regimes must act <i>before </i> majorities vote democracy down. Accordingly, the fundamental choice democrats face is not whether to obey antidemocratic decisions, but whether it is legitimate to restrict participation before such a decision is taken. To address the challenges raised by threats to democracy, I define and defend a framework of principles which should guide efforts to safeguard representative government, argue that: (1) all individuals, even antidemocrats, possess an equal claim to participate in democratic decisions; (2) democrats should only limit political participation to deter violations of citizens' core democratic rights; (3) democrats must acknowledge the distinctive risks associated with protecting democracy. I develop the implications of this approach in several case studies in which individuals have made difficult judgments about whether to protect democracy. The dissertation begins by treating instances in which suspect organizations do not fundamentally threaten the stability of the representative government, but nonetheless violate others' right to participate. I consider whether electoral systems should be designed in ways that discourage antidemocratic action and the plausibility of different justifications for limiting democratic participation. Later chapters examine how democrats might respond when representative regimes are threatened by large antidemocratic movements. In these chapters, I examine the legitimacy of…
Subjects/Keywords: Law; Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Kirshner, A. S. (2011). A Theory of Militant Democracy. (Thesis). Yale University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467905
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Kirshner, Alexander S. “A Theory of Militant Democracy.” 2011. Thesis, Yale University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467905.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Kirshner, Alexander S. “A Theory of Militant Democracy.” 2011. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Kirshner AS. A Theory of Militant Democracy. [Internet] [Thesis]. Yale University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467905.
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Kirshner AS. A Theory of Militant Democracy. [Thesis]. Yale University; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3467905
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Indiana University
21.
Basik, Nathan.
An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism.
Degree: 2009, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3344560
► This dissertation supports universalistic trends in political thought by arguing for a physiologically based moral sense underlying a realist version of evolutionary ethics. The…
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▼ This dissertation supports universalistic trends in political thought by arguing for a physiologically based moral sense underlying a realist version of evolutionary ethics. The project begins by arguing for a methodological anarchy that paradoxically works against the epistemological gap between natural and social science embodied in the "bifurcation thesis." Chapter Two examines the roots of moral intuitionism, and stresses the contradiction between the ubiquity of intuitions in moral philosophy and the simultaneous rejection of intuitionism, a contradiction that motivates the effort to ground moral intuitions more rigorously in physiology. Chapter Three extends the argument for naturalistic moral psychology by demonstrating how it could complement, rather than contradict, Charles Taylor's notions of moral frameworks and ontology. The ways in which conceptual and technological advances in science are being applied to moral philosophy are treated in Chapter Four. Chapter Five defends moral realism, but since evolutionary ethics is widely construed as a nonrealist position, Chapter Six uses evolutionary convergence to support the compatibility of evolutionary and realist moral perspectives. The final chapter briefly considers some relativistic concerns before sketching an evolutionary realist stance and applying it to several concrete issues generally regarded as moral concerns. Evolutionary moral realism simultaneously contributes to second order ontological and epistemological debates and clarifies positions regarding first order normative principles, such as consequentialism and contractualism. For both philosophers and scientists the broadest contribution of evolutionary realism is the notion that progress on any of these debates within moral philosophy will require integrating abstract theory with concrete empirical findings.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Basik, Nathan. “An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism.” 2009. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3344560.
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Basik, Nathan. “An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism.” 2009. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Basik N. An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3344560.
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Basik N. An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3344560
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22.
Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan.
Diversity, modesty, liberty| An essay on state neutrality.
Degree: 2009, University of Maryland, College Park
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3359335
► Human beings have long disagreed about the best way to live. Of what significance is this fact for politics? In this dissertation, I argue…
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▼ Human beings have long disagreed about the best way to live. Of what significance is this fact for politics? In this dissertation, I argue that it is of the <i>utmost</i> significance, and that substantial theoretical conclusions follow from our decision to take it seriously. Arguing that few accounts of politics have given due consideration to the fact of persistent disagreement, among reasonable and well-intentioned individuals, as to what gives life meaning and value, I articulate what I hope to be the most defensible account of a politics that accommodates this fact. Citing (in Part One) a variety of possible inferences we might make in response to this ‘fact of diversity’, I defend (in Part Two) a <i>humble</i> assessment of our cognitive abilities in this regard as the most charitable inference on offer. Formulated from the perspective of those who would claim the right to exercise political power and authority, this epistemically-humble response to the fact of diversity issues in a principled refusal to endorse any particular account of the Good Life as authoritative for public purposes. The state manifests this principled refusal by adopting an attitude of ‘maximum feasible accommodation’ with respect to its citizens’ pursuits of their diverse conceptions of life’s meaning and value. Such an attitude needs to be fleshed out in terms of policy, however, so in Part Three I articulate and defend, as the best practical expression of a stance of maximum accommodation, a principle that restricts the use of the state’s coercive power to only those measures needed to protect citizens’ ‘expressive liberty’ – that is, their right to live lives that express their cherished notions of life’s meaning and value, free from coercive interference.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan. “Diversity, modesty, liberty| An essay on state neutrality.” 2009. Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3359335.
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Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan. “Diversity, modesty, liberty| An essay on state neutrality.” 2009. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
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Baltzly VB. Diversity, modesty, liberty| An essay on state neutrality. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland, College Park; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3359335.
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Baltzly VB. Diversity, modesty, liberty| An essay on state neutrality. [Thesis]. University of Maryland, College Park; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3359335
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Princeton University
23.
Buckinx, Barbara C. J.
Reducing domination in global politics.
Degree: 2010, Princeton University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3410989
► This dissertation articulates an approach to global governance that has at its center the neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. It constitutes an alternative…
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▼ This dissertation articulates an approach to global governance that has at its center the neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. It constitutes an alternative to the prevailing—liberal-political and cosmopolitan democratic—approaches to global governance, which focus on the benefits of global cooperation among independent peoples in accordance with liberal principles, or on the application of democratic ideals and institutions beyond the state, respectively. I sympathize with the former approach’s ascription of a normative role in global governance to the state, and I agree with the latter that we ought to view questions of political governance through a global lens. Nevertheless, I argue that neither approach fully captures what is at stake in global governance. In particular, they fail to grasp the ways in which the global order renders individuals vulnerable to domination. Global actors sometimes wield such extensive power over us that our encounters with them render us incapable of asserting control over our own choices, and I am concerned with the unrestrained exercise or potential exercise of that power. As a result, I propose that we adopt non-domination as a global political ideal. I then consider which actors ought to undertake the task of reducing the vulnerability of individuals to domination, and the method by which they ought to do so. I distinguish between the public nature of global institutions and the private character of states, corporations, and non-governmental organizations, and argue that only the former ought to be concerned with the problem of global domination. I also contend that they ought to do so incrementally, rather than by pursuing ideal-theoretic institutional design. In addition to providing an alternative to the existing liberal and cosmopolitan-democratic approaches to global governance, the dissertation also hopes to contribute to the burgeoning literature on neo-republicanism. It faults contemporary civic republicans for being insufficiently concerned with the oppression of individuals in non-republican states, and it formulates a global republican approach that takes the freedom of such individuals seriously. Chapters One and Two offer a diagnosis of the <i>problem </i> and a description of the <i>values</i> that are central to its resolution, while Chapters Three and Four focus on the global actors that are best suited to bringing about the necessary global change, as well as the <i>method</i> by which this change should be brought about. Chapter One argues that current research in normative global governance has paid insufficient attention to the problem of domination in global politics. Chapter Two proposes freedom as non-domination as a candidate for a global political ideal, and it explains how this ideal can address many of the values that liberals and cosmopolitan democrats care about within it. Chapter Three critiques the conflation of public and private global actors in the accounts of some of the existing scholarship.…
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Buckinx, B. C. J. (2010). Reducing domination in global politics. (Thesis). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3410989
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Buckinx, Barbara C J. “Reducing domination in global politics.” 2010. Thesis, Princeton University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3410989.
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Buckinx, Barbara C J. “Reducing domination in global politics.” 2010. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
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Buckinx BCJ. Reducing domination in global politics. [Internet] [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3410989.
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Buckinx BCJ. Reducing domination in global politics. [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3410989
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24.
Matatyaou, Uri Jacob.
Memory – space – politics| Public memorial and the problem of political judgment.
Degree: 2008, Northwestern University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3303659
► Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic…
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▼ Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic historical events. My dissertation explores the challenges of memorializing these events, in order to recover the importance of memory for politics. Insisting on the role of public memorial as a site of democratic practice, my work questions the dominant discourse that informs and directs acts of memorialization. That is, a discourse that circumscribes remembrance and forgetting as either a politics of memory, in which the meaning of an event is imposed on a particular community, or as its attendant ethics, in which one or more communities is obliged to remember, most often for the purpose of collective instruction. Theorizing the meaning of community in the representational strategies of public memorial, I ask: What kinds of memorials enable plurality and political speech? What kinds disable and silence? Which practices of remembrance are best suited to the events they want to memorialize, as well as to the imperatives of our own political present? Do these practices consolidate meaning, or do they provoke the kind of critical questioning that is essential to democracy? To recover the importance of memory for politics, I develop a distinctively political idiom for talking about public memorial. I draw from the texts of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Theodor Adorno to show how memory energizes our ability to think, judge, and act in the face of a past that can be neither forgotten nor changed. While these thinkers provide me with theoretical resources, I ground my readings in contemporary memorial architecture. Each site casts an individual perspective on the events it sets out to represent, and thus offers a singular notion of what it means to remember. It is not my intention to establish a paradigm out of a particular field of memory, but to bring each act of memorial into conversation with the theoretical texts in order to ask how space enables and disables practices of reflective judgment constitutive of human plurality and democratic community.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General; Architecture
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Matatyaou, Uri Jacob. “Memory – space – politics| Public memorial and the problem of political judgment.” 2008. Thesis, Northwestern University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3303659.
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Matatyaou, Uri Jacob. “Memory – space – politics| Public memorial and the problem of political judgment.” 2008. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Matatyaou UJ. Memory – space – politics| Public memorial and the problem of political judgment. [Internet] [Thesis]. Northwestern University; 2008. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3303659.
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Matatyaou UJ. Memory – space – politics| Public memorial and the problem of political judgment. [Thesis]. Northwestern University; 2008. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3303659
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The University of Utah
25.
Askren, Russell Wayne.
Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate.
Degree: 2012, The University of Utah
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3521997
► In recent decades liberal political philosophy has debated a significant question: If the basic commitment of liberal political theory is the equal moral standing…
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▼ In recent decades liberal political philosophy has debated a significant question: If the basic commitment of liberal political theory is the equal moral standing of all individuals, how do we justify the presence of borders and their control such that individuals receive different consideration and treatment based solely upon their status as members of a particular political community? One position claims that hard borders are unjustifiable; borders must be open as a matter of right and respect for all individuals. At the other end of the spectrum is the position that hard borders are justifiable; borders can be closed as a matter of the right of particular communities to the goods that community creates and the preservation of that community's unique identity. A third category of arguments considers the problem from the perspective of the nonideal circumstances in the world; opening borders is an appropriate and necessary response to resolving problems of hunger, poverty and violence in the world. I examine several arguments in each of these categories, finding that the arguments offered are problematic in ways which make them less than fully persuasive, even though they explore in valuable ways different aspects of the debate. A second problem is that this moral debate has failed to influence in any meaningful way the ongoing public policy debate related to immigration. To overcome this second problem I utilize a model proposed by Jonathan Wolf and Avner de-Shalit in which philosophically fragmented concepts, which cannot influence policy in their fragmented state, are brought to bear upon policy through the identification of the moral consensus present in the debate. This moral consensus, which represents the central moral concern of the debate, can be effectively applied to the appropriate policy debate. The proposed consensus is based upon the central moral concern of the open borders debate, the effect of immigration control policies upon the well-being of individuals, and argues that states may control their borders constrained by the obligation to give consideration to the effects of control policies and to ameliorate the negative effects of such policies.
Subjects/Keywords: Ethics; Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Askren, R. W. (2012). Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate. (Thesis). The University of Utah. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3521997
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Askren, Russell Wayne. “Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate.” 2012. Thesis, The University of Utah. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3521997.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Askren, Russell Wayne. “Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate.” 2012. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Askren RW. Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Utah; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3521997.
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Council of Science Editors:
Askren RW. Liberalism and borders| Finding moral consensus in the open borders debate. [Thesis]. The University of Utah; 2012. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3521997
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26.
Hughes, Thomas Michael.
Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions.
Degree: 2009, University of California, Santa Barbara
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371649
► Political obligation has been the dominant concept to explain individual obedience to political institutions. It claims that a free individual has performed some voluntary…
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▼ Political obligation has been the dominant concept to explain individual obedience to political institutions. It claims that a free individual has performed some voluntary act which generate a new set of moral requirements to support and comply with a particular set of political institutions. However the concept of political obligation has come under successful attack, rendering all existing formulations inadequate. This project explicitly abandons the language of political obligation, and presents an understanding political institutions that are not obligatory. I begin by reviewing the recent defenses of political obligation, and show that none consider all of the relevant critiques that have been used to reject the political obligation narrative. After the inadequacy of the current formulations has been shown, I return to the early modern writings on political obligation to consider the political relations of individuals who had no political obligations: foreigners. Once it has been shown that social cooperation with foreigners is possible without political obligations, I utilize Thoreau to show how citizens might behave as foreigners, through his formulation of sojourning. While the relations of foreigners and sojourners do much to explain social cooperation without political obligation, there remains a need to reconceptualize the law. To do this, I suggest that we understand the law not as a system of summary rules, but rather as what Rawls calls rules of practice. Finally, in the absence of political obligation, Hobbes is utilized to show that the state’s need to use coercive force can be based on the right of war, rather than the right of punishment derived from a set of special obligations. It is ultimately argued that political obligation is unnecessary as a concept to explain an individual’s relationship to particular political institutions, and that we should move our language beyond political obligation.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Hughes, T. M. (2009). Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions. (Thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371649
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hughes, Thomas Michael. “Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions.” 2009. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371649.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hughes, Thomas Michael. “Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions.” 2009. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Hughes TM. Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California, Santa Barbara; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371649.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hughes TM. Beyond political obligation| Reconceptualizing the individual's relationship to political institutions. [Thesis]. University of California, Santa Barbara; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3371649
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Columbia University
27.
Lange, Margaret Meek.
Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel.
Degree: 2010, Columbia University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3388468
► My dissertation examines Hegel's influence on John Rawls' treatment of freedom in a liberal state. This reading of Rawls draws on two major sources:…
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▼ My dissertation examines Hegel's influence on John Rawls' treatment of freedom in a liberal state. This reading of Rawls draws on two major sources: first, Rawls' own political theory, and second, his commentary on Hegel found in the 2000 Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy and in some unpublished notes. The dissertation begins with the claim that, for both Rawls and Hegel, an ideal social world is one that realizes freedom. Through the lens of Rawls, Hegel, and Rawls' writing on Hegel, I then address the following questions: How should we understand the aspiration that the social world realize freedom? Is this aspiration practicable? Both Rawls and Hegel understand freedom in an overarching sense as rational self-determination. Based on that understanding, I argue, the requirement that the social world realize freedom breaks down into two parts, one objective and one subjective. Borrowing from Frederick Neuhouser's recent work, Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom, I construct the following definitions of objective and subjective freedom. A society realizes objective freedom only if its major institutions enable the individual freedom of all of its citizens. A society realizes subjective freedom if and only if all citizens affirm these same institutions as their own and act from their affirmation. Given these preliminaries, the dissertation first summarizes the conceptions of subjective and objective freedom of each author. Then, the dissertation argues that Rawls' political theory implicitly entertains an immanent critique of the very liberalism of freedom that he proposes. The immanent critique states that a liberal social world that realizes objective freedom will not realize subjective freedom. The dissertation finds this critique in Rawls' political theory and shows its debts to Hegel. It reconstructs Rawls' defense and establishes that Hegel influences Rawls here as well. I demonstrate that Rawls' refutation of the immanent critique borrows from Hegel's political theory and includes a strategic misreading of Hegel's concept of reconciliation through philosophy. Finally, I claim that Rawls' defended liberalism of freedom is superior to Hegel's along two dimensions: it is more individualistic and it is more egalitarian.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Lange, M. M. (2010). Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel. (Thesis). Columbia University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3388468
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lange, Margaret Meek. “Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel.” 2010. Thesis, Columbia University. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3388468.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lange, Margaret Meek. “Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel.” 2010. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Lange MM. Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel. [Internet] [Thesis]. Columbia University; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3388468.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lange MM. Defending a liberalism of freedom| John Rawls's use of Hegel. [Thesis]. Columbia University; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3388468
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
28.
Rosensweig, Jason.
Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political.
Degree: 2017, The University of Chicago
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639185
► Explores the foundations of political community as understood in two complementary ways: first, in contemporary normative political and social theory. Second, in the history…
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▼ Explores the foundations of political community as understood in two complementary ways: first, in contemporary normative political and social theory. Second, in the history of politics and in the history of philosophy. Particular attention is given to David Hume, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke, as well as their relationship to contemporary political philosophers like Bernard Williams, John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Mills. Using Wittgenstein’s concept of a form of life <i>(lebensform) </i> in the <i>Philosophical Investigations,</i> argues that there is a family within the history of political thought whose members share the understanding that a shared form of life, which develops organically and historically, is a necessary condition for a free society to work well. Examines how political and social obligation, trust and commerce, as well as sympathy and concepts of rights, all require interdependence and shared assumptions and expectations. This family balances the impulses of political realism and political idealism, though is somewhat more anti-idealist than pro-realist. Bottom-up thinking that doesn’t fall in to the trap of idealism or of rationalism, due to a commitment to epistemological limits and the recognition of our finite capacities. In particular, I am interested in how we can combine the seemingly competing forces of culture and tradition (ways we have been doing things, one might say) with the necessary desire for change, reform, and progress. My approach to these questions can help shape the way we think about the size of states, if and when foreign intervention makes sense, the pace of change, and the necessary variety of political and social orders suited to a varying world.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; History; Political science
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Rosensweig, J. (2017). Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political. (Thesis). The University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639185
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rosensweig, Jason. “Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political.” 2017. Thesis, The University of Chicago. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639185.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rosensweig, Jason. “Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political.” 2017. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Rosensweig J. Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639185.
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Council of Science Editors:
Rosensweig J. Progress, Forms of Life and the Nature of the Political. [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639185
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of California – Berkeley
29.
Pomara, Francesca Maria.
Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico.
Degree: Italian Studies, 2015, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tx2q4kt
► The following reading of Giambattista Vico’s Scienza nuova (1744) employs a Machiavellian lens to illustrate how issues preventing political longevity and encouraging ever-proliferating contingencies are…
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▼ The following reading of Giambattista Vico’s Scienza nuova (1744) employs a Machiavellian lens to illustrate how issues preventing political longevity and encouraging ever-proliferating contingencies are overcome epistemologically, not through atemporal Cartesian reason, but rather through a layered, trans-historical hermeneutics. Because Vico frequently references (both tacitly and explicitly) Niccolò Machiavelli and because the two thinkers have a common grounding in humanist studies, particularly in rhetoric, the present discussion will explore the ways in which they share a distinct worldview that defines history as the epistemological experience of the individual and places concerns for proper governance at its core.A triadic interpretive schema will parse through three major thematic threads common to both Machiavellian and Vichean thought—advice; the individual; and communal laws—in order to analyze their three corresponding modes of argumentation—the visual, the metaphorical/poetical, and the legal—that are essential to substantiate the affinities and novelty of these two thinkers’ practical philosophies. The Introduction will discuss Machiavelli and Vico’s similar peripheral location with respect to modernity as a means to establish the basis for their comparison. Specifically, the Introduction will explain why Machiavelli’s writings deepen comprehension of the Scienza nuova and the claim Vico puts forth within it of its innovation from his pro-Descartes contemporaries.Chapter One, entitled “Allegorical Thinking and the Problem of Contingency,” will confront the difficulty of securing universally applicable praxes, as typified by the slippery counsel in Machiavelli’s Principe, and will analyze how Vico proposes a solution through the Scienza’s frontispiece. By foregrounding the rhetorical and interpretative techniques that enable allegory to link two levels of meaning—surface and hidden, poetical and philosophical—Chapter One will show how the Machiavellian prince anticipates the overcoming of temporal obstacles that is central to the reading and implementation of Vico’s science, particularly through the visualization of two moments in time.Chapter Two, entitled “The Individual, the Collective, and the Fictions of Exemplarity,” analyzes the entity responsible for the resolution of contingency, moving from the individual to the many. Machiavelli, in his Vita di Castruccio Castracani, obliquely answers the question he proposes on the waning validity of the self as both model and propagator of continuity, overturning the efficacy of legacies according to filial succession for one based on interpretative ties. Chapter Two contends that Castruccio’s sayings look forward to the ways in which Vico argues Homer’s exemplarity as depending less on an individual’s merits and more on a collective representational impulse, with a person’s identity becoming the vehicle for the majority’s ideas, desires, and will.Chapter Three, entitled “Legislating the Histories of Human Thinking,” brings together the allegorical and…
Subjects/Keywords: Romance literature; Philosophy; Political science
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Pomara, F. M. (2015). Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tx2q4kt
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pomara, Francesca Maria. “Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tx2q4kt.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pomara, Francesca Maria. “Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico.” 2015. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Pomara FM. Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tx2q4kt.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Pomara FM. Historical Knowing and Creative Politics in Machiavelli and Vico. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1tx2q4kt
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of California, San Diego
30.
Gottschalk, Justin Michael.
Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy.
Degree: 2014, University of California, San Diego
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626264
► This dissertation investigates Platonic political philosophy as a possible means for understanding the relationship between knowledge and power. Via a close reading of Heinrich…
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▼ This dissertation investigates Platonic political philosophy as a possible means for understanding the relationship between knowledge and power. Via a close reading of Heinrich Meier's early work on Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, it attempts to articulate how political philosophy in Meier's sense works, as well as to carry out <i>in actu</i> a piece of interpretation in accord with its characteristic approach. It finds that Meier "purifies" (<i>kathairo</i>) the figures of Schmitt and Strauss into the exemplars of political theology and political philosophy, respectively; that he traces postmodern relativism back to its roots in a moral-theological view associated with revelation; that he is able in this way to sharpen the distinction between political theology and political philosophy, and, more generally, between the orders of knowledge and of power; and that these orders, despite much obvious interpenetration, are incommensurable in view of their extreme cases. Further, it finds that political philosophy operates in the interrogative mode for questioning the assertions and commands of political and theological authorities, and the hypothetical subjunctive mode for protecting itself, and philosophy generally, from persecution at the hands of such authorities; in addition, it employs these modes to gain insight into its own possibility and necessity, or to progress in self-knowledge. Finally, it finds that political philosophy makes a characteristic turn (<i>periagoge</i>) toward the good, and that this is only justified if the good sticks to the real or if truth is somehow primary or if not everything is possible.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy; Political Science, General
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Gottschalk, J. M. (2014). Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy. (Thesis). University of California, San Diego. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626264
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gottschalk, Justin Michael. “Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy.” 2014. Thesis, University of California, San Diego. Accessed January 24, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626264.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gottschalk, Justin Michael. “Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy.” 2014. Web. 24 Jan 2021.
Vancouver:
Gottschalk JM. Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California, San Diego; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 24].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626264.
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Council of Science Editors:
Gottschalk JM. Knowledge or Power Heinrich Meier and the Case For Political Philosophy. [Thesis]. University of California, San Diego; 2014. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626264
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