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: The notion d'egalite complexe developpee par M. Walzer dans le cadre d'un systeme bloque des echanges, en vue d'une distribution egalitaire des biens sociaux, is considered in this article.
Abstract: Critique de la notion d'egalite complexe developpee par M. Walzer dans le cadre d'un systeme bloque des echanges, en vue d'une distribution egalitaire des biens sociaux. Alors que Walzer se propose de circonscrire les inegalites dans les differentes spheres politiques, l'A. montre que celui-ci sous-estime l'ubiquite des processus d'accumulation inegalitaires, meme s'il parvient a reduire les processus d'exclusion et de formation de sous-classes sociales.
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TL;DR: The welfare state is essential to the social peace, legitimacy and political stability of democratic capitalist countries in the second half of the twentieth century as mentioned in this paper, the culmination of centuries-long modernization processes of state-building, nation-building and democratization.
Abstract: The welfare state proved essential to the social peace, legitimacy and political
stability of democratic capitalist countries in the second half of the twentieth century,
the culmination of centuries-long modernization processes of state-building, nationbuilding and democratization (Rokkan, 1975). Yet from its early days onward
welfare state intervention has been subject to political conflict concerning issues of
how to allocate the burden of its financing, and how to distribute benefits. Within
public welfare discourse, issues of normative justification are relevant for all groups
which attempt to establish legitimate needs and jostle for their ‘fair’ share of welfare
benefits (Fraser, 1989). Given the recent and ongoing reconstruction of many Western
welfare states, the issue of sustainable justice – combining financial sustainability
with a set of normative principles that do justice to societal needs and are able to
attract lasting public support – promises to remain high on the political agenda.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on the ethnographic turn in recent comparative religious ethics (CRE) and argue that comparative religious ethicists should privilege engagement with non-western intellectual sources, since it undermines the erroneous view that non-Western sources are either soft or are part of someone else's commitments and therefore irrelevant.
Abstract: Abstract:This article reflects on the ethnographic turn in recent comparative religious ethics (CRE). Comparative religious ethicists should be lauded because they privilege engagement with non-Western intellectual sources. Such engagement is important since it undermines the erroneous view that non-Western sources are either soft or are part of someone else's commitments and therefore irrelevant. Yet some recent comparative work stops at merely describing these non-Western sources, moving ethics away from its normative tasks. If CRE is to remain relevant to broader conversations in moral and political theory, comparative religious ethicists should perform two tasks: they should evaluate the object under consideration and illustrate how thinking about it may contribute to broader thinking about common moral and political problems.
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