Ricoeur, Rawls, and Capability Justice

Civic Phronesis and Equality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Molly Harkirat Mann, Professor Molly Harkirat Mann, Molly Harkirat Mann

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Contemporary capabilities-based approaches to social justice, inspired by the Aristotelian emphasis on human well-being, have tended to separate and even oppose identity-based or recognitive justice from resource-based or redistributive justice. This book demonstrates that such a divorce risks further polarizing capable members of the political community from disabled or vulnerable members. In order to prevent this danger of legitimizing the growing stratification between rich and poor, or between capability and vulnerability in modern neo-liberal societies, Molly Harkirat Mann turns to the work of Paul Ricoeur. Inso doing shedevelops the argument that our historical and institutionalized practices of sharing, articulated by the lexicographical configuration of the Rawlisan principles of justice, represent a method for public deliberation or civic Phronesis, the ethical aim of which is the non-exclusion of our most vulnerable citizens from public institutions of care.By developing his political philosophy in relation to class politics in modern liberal societies, this book shows how Ricoeur's political thought is more closely aligned to that of John Rawls than has previously been acknowledged.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-04-12
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt506 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContinuum Studies in Political Philosophy
Antal sidor240
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441198501

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1. Ricoeur's Reflexive Reading of Kant's Categorical Imperative; 2. An Aristotelian Ethics of Reciprocity: "Aiming for the Good Life, With and For Others, in Just Institutions"; 3. The Anti-Sacrificial Telos of Redistributive Justice: Rawls's Principle of Civic Inclusion; 4. Dismantling the Telos of the Good Life: The Pluralist Charge; 5. Our "Least Advantaged Member": Some Neo-Liberal Consequences of Contemporary Capability Politics; 6. Conclusion: Solicitous and Possessive Narratives of Persons as Ends in Themselves; Bibliography; Index.

We begin with we are, not I am. We are who we are because of what we do through our daily practices. At a time when the United States has led the return to the gilded age when 1% of the population own one-third of its wealth, when those in the financial services who contribute least to the production of that wealth join the .com innovators to predominate among the super rich, when protesters claiming to represent the other 99% seek to reverse the direction of the narrative of greed that began in the 1980s to rise to its current pre-eminence, when protests that started on Wall Street have spread worldwide,when the principles to counteract the moralization of greed and inequality are in greatest need, this book's superb philosophical examination of that moral struggle could not be more timely.