Article archive
03/02/2010 17:17
Intervention and Transparency: the Case of Human Rights
Daniel Diederich Farmer
Marquette University
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Intervention and Transparency: the Case of Human Rights
In this paper, I critique constructivist accounts of universal human rights (Jack Donnelly’s in particular) by deploying a criterion of transparency. A ‘transparent’ moral vocabulary is one...
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03/02/2010 17:15
Foucault: Politics of the Police
Andrew Johnson
Louisiana State University
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Foucault: Politics of the Police
This is a shorter version of a project I have been working on in relation to Foucault and his College de France lectures. It is my argument that Michel Foucault addresses the institution and practice of the police,...
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03/02/2010 17:14
Nussbaum's Capabilities, Jaggar's Critique, What's Next?
Chad Kleist
Marquette University
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Nussbaum's Capabilities, Jaggar's Critique, What's Next?
There have been two philosophical approaches to addressing cross-cultural moral disagreement and conflict. The dominant approach aims to develop a theory that is in some sense both ‘thick’ (i.e., it...
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03/02/2010 17:13
Heidegger’s (Unspoken) Justice: the Ordering of the World
Shane Ewegen
Boston College
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Heidegger’s (Unspoken) Justice: the Ordering of the World
In his 1942 lectures on Parmenides, Heidegger offers one of his few sustained meditations on the character of the political. More precisely, through an analysis of certain sections of Plato’s Politeia,...
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03/02/2010 17:12
“Common Sympathies”: the Civic Duty Argument
Hsin-wen Lee
University of Southern California
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“Common Sympathies”: the Civic Duty Argument
Miller believes that, in a multi-national society, a government will have difficulty enforcing the demands of civic duties--- due to the lack of trust and reciprocity, the rich national communities...
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03/02/2010 17:12
Negativity and Normativity: Art and Justice in the 20th Century
Aline M. Ramos
Fordham University
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Negativity and Normativity: Art and Justice in the 20th Century
Ever since Greek Antiquity, we have been revising our idea of justice and all of its normative components. The Presocratic philosophers and Plato mentioned many ways in which beauty, art and...
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03/02/2010 17:11
Crisis of Antiquity: Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and the Roots of Our Modern Crisis
Kyle Thomsen
Loyola University Chicago
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Crisis of Antiquity: Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, and the Roots of Our Modern Crisis
A great deal has been said regarding the modern political sphere, and how we currently live in a time of peril. Two great thinkers, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault,...
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03/02/2010 17:10
Towards a Human Language: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty
Timothy Weidel
Loyola University Chicago
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Towards a Human Language: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty
In this paper, I offer an alternative approach to global poverty by challenging the current language of human rights (in terms of the work of Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge). This...
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03/02/2010 17:08
On Tolerance of the Ways of Life
Adalberto de Hoyos Bermea
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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On Tolerance of the Ways of Life
Liberal tolerance pretends to be neutral to diverse ways of life, but its principles often conflict with the values of non liberal cultures, and supposes that it is necessary to disencourage...
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03/02/2010 17:06
Crises Undeniable, Ideological: Jürgen Habermas and the Legitimacy of Critical Theory
Miles Hentrup
University of Oregon
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Crises Undeniable, Ideological: Jürgen Habermas and the Legitimacy of Critical Theory
In his 1968 essay “Technology and Science as ‘Ideology,’” Jürgen Habermas develops in outline the ways in which, in advanced capitalism, an effective critical social...
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