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 the U.S. context, the contrast between the "Dreamers" and "Parachuters" helps to draw out this distinction between civic ties and credit lines as competing bases for membership acquisition as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In today's age of restrictionism, a growing number of countries are closing their gates of admission to most categories of would-be immigrants with one important exception. Governments increasingly seek to lure and attract “high value” migrants, especially those with access to large sums of capital. These individuals are offered golden visa programs that lead to fast-tracked naturalization in exchange for a hefty investment, in some cases without inhabiting or even setting foot in the passport-issuing country to which they now officially belong. In the U.S. context, the contrast between the “Dreamers” and “Parachuters” helps to draw out this distinction between civic ties and credit lines as competing bases for membership acquisition. Drawing attention to these seldom-discussed citizenship-for-sale practices, this essay highlights their global surge and critically evaluates the legal, normative, and distributional quandaries they raise. I further argue that purchased membership goods cannot replicate or substitute the meaningful links to a political community that make citizenship valuable and worth upholding in the first place.
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TL;DR: There is widespread agreement that the European Union is presently suffering from a lack of social justice as mentioned in this paper. Yet there is significant disagreement about what the relevant injustice consists in: Fede...
Abstract: There is widespread agreement that the European Union is presently suffering from a lack of social justice. Yet there is significant disagreement about what the relevant injustice consists in: Fede...
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...One source of hierarchies in esteem comes from pre-eminence (Walzer, 1983: 46), i.e. the social phenomenon whereby the multi-dimensionality of esteem-providing social spheres breaks down and one particular sphere of social life becomes the all-important marker of assessment....
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TL;DR: A number of concerns with justice and balancing considerations that should play a role in critical care triage policy, focusing on discrimination and on fundamental egalitarian and social justice concerns are distinguished.
Abstract: Some ethicists assert that there is a consensus that maximising medical outcomes takes precedence as a principle of resource allocation in emergency triage of absolutely scarce resources. But the nature of the current severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 pandemic and the history of debate about balancing equity and efficiency in resource allocation do not support this assertion. I distinguish a number of concerns with justice and balancing considerations that should play a role in critical care triage policy, focusing on discrimination and on fundamental egalitarian and social justice concerns.
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TL;DR: The authors discuss the status and role of politics in the pragmatic sociology of critique and argue that pragmatic sociology tends to ignore questions of the constitution of politics, and suggest that one way of bringing the foundational aspect upfront is by conceptualizing and studying defiance, including forms of explicit (dissent) and implicit critique (resistance) of the existing order.
Abstract: The article discusses the status and role of politics — in its various facets — in the pragmatic sociology of critique. We focus on a number of different dimensions of politics — politics-as-justification, politics-as-distribution, politics-as-constitution, and politics-as-defiance — that can said to be of importance for a pragmatic sociology of critique, but that have not all been taken up equally in this approach. We situate pragmatic sociology in a tradition of thought that views politics as emerging in the settlement of disputes over differences without resorting to violence. However, we argue that pragmatic sociology tends to ignore questions of the constitution of politics, and suggest that one way of bringing the foundational aspect upfront is by conceptualizing and studying defiance, including forms of explicit (dissent) and implicit critique (resistance) of the existing order.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider two questions: (1) Do democratic states have the right to deport non-citizens present or residing on their territory? (2) If so, what principles should guide deportation.
Abstract: This article considers two questions: (1) Do democratic states have the right to deport non-citizens present or residing on their territory? (2) And, if so, what principles should guide deportation...
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...This is a wellknown objection against guest worker programmes raised perhaps most prominently by Michael Walzer, who objects to states that refuse to grant citizenship to guest workers they claim (wrongly) are temporary only; as indicated earlier, these individuals thus remain permanently vulnerable to deportation because they remain subject to unjust citizenship laws (Walzer, 1983)....
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...…by Michael Walzer, who objects to states that refuse to grant citizenship to guest workers they claim (wrongly) are temporary only; as indicated earlier, these individuals thus remain permanently vulnerable to deportation because they remain subject to unjust citizenship laws (Walzer, 1983)....
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