Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.
Abstract: that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Google's massive digital scanning initiative exposes and exacerbates injustices with regard to information, technology, and institutions that are not easily captured along distributive lines.
Abstract: If Google Books has been successful in furthering the cause of social justice with regard to information, it is along narrowly distributive lines. Drawing on critics of distributive justice and emphasizing the value of self-respect, the author argues that Google’s massive digital scanning initiative—especially as compared to the liberal democratic institution of the public library—exposes and exacerbates injustices with regard to information, technology, and institutions that are not easily captured along distributive lines. In particular, attention is paid to three features of the project—the quality of Google’s book scans, the politics of online search, and Google’s conception of the value of information—as demonstrative of the too-slender foundation for self-respect the Google Books project offers its users.
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TL;DR: It is argued that Walzer’s work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored and how his ideas can be extended to reshape the understanding of the field and develop new perspectives on ethical issues in commerce.
Abstract: Michael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political discussion, yet very few of his ideas have been incorporated explicitly into the business ethics literature. We argue that Walzer's work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in business ethics often borrow from political theory and philosophy to generate new insights and develop new substantive contributions. Many valuable theoretical resources are already used extensively-particularly Aristotle, Kant, Marx and a variety of utilitarian philosophers. Walzer offers another set of resources to bring to the conversation of what business ethics is and how business ethicists add value. This paper provides an opportunity to delve further into Walzer's writings, particularly themes that are tied to business ethics, and to illustrate how his ideas can be extended to reshape our understanding of the field and develop new perspectives on ethical issues in commerce.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a new ideological con-struct to transform the culture-specific cast of the Eurocentric organization model into a common cultural strain, by adopting the concept of "commingling diversity", the problem of clashing cultures and disparate perspectives in the workplace could be attenuated.
Abstract: The American workplace is at a crossroads; workplace demo- graphics powerfully suggest that managing diversity will constitute a large portion of management's agenda through out the 1990s and into the next century. This article attempts to introduce a new ideological con struct to transform the culture- specific cast of the Eurocentric organization model into a common cultural strain. The idea is that by adopting the concept of "commingling diversity," the problem of clashing cultures and disparate perspectives in the workplace could be attenuated, and the process of managing could ineluctably be transmuted.
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TL;DR: This Introduction discusses the public health and ethical challenges of responding should a pandemic influenza event reach the United States and suggests a framework that public health professionals and faith leaders can use to address those challenges.
Abstract: T Introduction discusses the public health and ethical challenges of responding should a pandemic influenza event reach the United States and suggests a framework that public health professionals and faith leaders can use to address those challenges. Critical to such a response is how emergency preparedness strategies can effectively target vulnerable populations. Ethical and programmatic principles and practices of population-based disease prevention and health promotion and protection must prioritize service to those who are habitually underserved. Vulnerable populations are the neediest; thus professionals in the public health and faith communities must afford them special attention. The public health and faith communities must come together to respond to a possible pandemic flu episode by effective emergency preparedness as an ethical mandate.* While there is no consensus on the best definition for ethics, for the purpose of this manuscript ethics is defined as a set of rules, principles, values, and ideals of a particular group.1[p.60] Paying special attention to vulnerable populations is a central ethical challenge for those making hierarchical decisions in times of public health crisis. There are several
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TL;DR: The authors review and critique Mandelbaum's emphasis on critical irony and communitarian sensibility as these take for granted the important role planning plays helping us coordinate and cope with social complexity in modern societies.
Abstract: How do we plan for collective decision-making without sacrificing the benefits of democratic pluralism to planning demands for rational consensus or precision? Seymour Mandelbaum argues that we adopt and promote open moral communities. Using ideas of political theorist James Bohman, I review and critique Mandelbaum’s emphasis on critical irony and communitarian sensibility as these take for granted the important role planning plays helping us coordinate and cope with social complexity in modern societies. We can take Mandelbaum’s critical insight that we enliven and improve the quality of public deliberation using a robust pluralism. However, binding that pluralism together will take more than respectful reciprocity and civic virtue, it requires that we do plans and planning to help guide collective decisions in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. Planning and plan-making play an important role coordinating these complex relationships. I offer two brief planning examples - one fitting Mandelbaum’s ideal and another that does not to show how a plan can still offer practical guidance even as the deliberations that frame it fail.
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...Benjamin Barber’s (1984) work is direct, Alan Wolfe (1979) latent and Michael Walzer (1983, 1995) pluralistic....
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...Michael Walzer (1983) uses the principle of non-tyranny to provide a test for political equality....
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...The inspiration for this rather cryptic simplification comes from a close reading of Michael Bratman’s book (1987) and recent revisionist work by students of rationality influenced by Herbert Simon, namely, Gigerenzer and Selten (2001)....
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