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: This paper examined how school principals perceive social justice in schools and found that committed leaders perceive notions of redistribution, recognition, inclusion, and representation, and sheds light on why principals differ in their beliefs and philosophies when approaching social justice.
Abstract: Where there are people, there is social in/justice. Using Nancy Fraser’s framework, this qualitative research examines how school principals perceive social justice in schools. Twenty-one elementary and secondary school principals were interviewed in the Greater Toronto Area. The study provides some empirical evidence on the ways social justice–committed leaders perceive notions of redistribution, recognition, inclusion, and representation, and sheds light on why principals differ in their beliefs and philosophies when approaching social justice.
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...This difference model of social justice is also characterized by “complex equality” (Walzer, 1983), which, as Gale (2000) indicated, has also given rise to the adoption of the concept of equity....
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16 Mar 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present two different approches of the notion of pauvrete, i.e., the approches monetaires and multidimensionnelles, which tend to be beaucoup plus convergent.
Abstract: Depuis la fin du XIXeme siecle, les preoccupations concernant la definition de la pauvrete ne cessent de croitre dans les milieux universitaires et politiques. Les implications sur les programmes de lutte contre la pauvrete dependent en grande partie de la definition que l'on retient de la notion meme de pauvrete. Cette these a pour ambition de questionner les rapports parfois ambigus entre trois grandes familles informationnelles. L'utilitarisme qui constitue, aujourd'hui encore, grâce a de nombreuses extensions theoriques, le paradigme dominant dans les analyses relatives a la pauvrete, definit cette notion comme un etat de denuement monetaire ne permettant pas de subvenir aux besoins des personnes concernees. L'attention exclusive portee aux ressources monetaires ne permet cependant pas d'apprehender la pauvrete dans sa totalite. C'est la raison pour laquelle deux approches – concernant les besoins essentiels et les capabilites – permettent d'enrichir la definition de la pauvrete d'informations plurielles comme les besoins de base ou les libertes. Si elles semblent s'opposer de prime abord, la presente recherche montre que les trois approches retenues sont beaucoup plus convergentes. Apres avoir presente les domaines de substitution et de complementarite theoriques, nous avons mobilise les donnees issues de l'Observatoire de la Guinee maritime pour les confronter a la realite. Les resultats empiriques corroborent les conclusions theoriques : les approches monetaires et multidimensionnelles tendent a fournir une information complementaire quant a la realite du phenomene de pauvrete sur notre echantillon. Si l'identification monetaire des menages pauvres ne permet pas d'en saisir la multidimensionnalite, il n'en reste pas moins que le revenu reste important dans la probabilite qu'un menage soit victime de pauvrete multidimensionnelle.
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01 Apr 2010TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new economic framework for creating a just and sustainable economy based on Adam Smith's silence and an economics of property, and the notions of provision and family.
Abstract: List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction: creating a just and sustainable economy Part I. Creating a New Economic Framework: 2. Adam Smith's silence and an economics of property 3. Reclaiming the notions of provision and family 4. Making provisions in a dangerous world Part II. The Civic Option: 5. From property relations to civic relations 6. Society, civil society and the market 7. Restoring reciprocity 8. Civic norms and market competition Part III. A Civic View of Labor, Land, and Money: 9. Labor: employment as engagement 10. Land: ownership as a concession 11. Money: commodity or credit Part IV. Civilizing Economic Systems: 12. A world of systems 13. Imagining stakeholder economy 14. The ethics of economic systems 15. Changing systems of provision Part V. A Civic Agenda: 16. The civic obligations of corporations: 17. Creating circumstances for civic conversations Appendix: free enterprise and the economics of slavery Bibliography Index.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The role of nationality laws and their implementation in underpinning or undermining the modern state in Africa is both important and has received too little attention from policy-makers to date as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The role of nationality laws and their implementation in underpinning or undermining the modern state in Africa is both important and has received too little attention from policy-makers to date. This is the finding of a comparative analysis of nationality laws across all 54 African states, matched with detailed case studies of the ways in which the law has interacted with politics, especially in countries that have had crises centred on identity. Recommendations call for reform of law and practice to provide a right to a nationality in the country where a person has the closest connections.
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TL;DR: This paper argued that there are fundamental connections between a nation's political arrangements and its educational efforts on behalf of youth and argued that to fully shrug off lingering vestiges of Darwinism, we need a new educational narrative, one premised on inserting community as a central curricular feature in the nation's public schools.
Abstract: This essay contends that there are fundamental connections between a nation’s political arrangements and its educational efforts on behalf of youth. Though the common school architects of the nineteenth century recognized these connections, they were profoundly forgotten in a later Darwinian milieu that suggested—our allegiance to democracy notwithstanding—that the business of statecraft is best left to the most “fit.” This essay argues that to fully shrug off lingering vestiges of Darwinism, we need a new educational narrative, one premised on inserting community as a central curricular feature in the nation’s public schools.
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