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 palliative care movement was initiated some 30 years ago to respond to widespread ignorance or neglect of pain relief for the dying, but in recent years there has emerged a blending of clinical treatment and hospice care, a kind of compromise with the idea of death as an inevitability.
Abstract: A number of changes can be observed in the way people are coming to think about death, mourning, and medical progress. The palliative care movement was initiated some 30 years ago to respond to widespread ignorance or neglect of pain relief for the dying, which was then coming to public attention and becoming a key part of the nascent hospice movement. Yet if an important feature of the latter movement was acceptance of the reality of death, in recent years there has emerged a blending of clinical treatment and hospice care, a kind of compromise with the idea of death as an inevitability. Meanwhile, the combination of real progress in forestalling death and the matching medical and media hype about past and coming victories over mortality mean that death itself is coming to be seen as a biological accident, a contingent event, not a fixed given. People die now because of bad luck, indifference to good living habits, unfortunate genetics, and the like, or because they have the misfortune of dying before a cure for their fatal disease is at hand. Mourning likewise is changing. The old custom of the deceased being laid out in their living rooms, followed by a funeral, has long given way to a movement away from public funerals to private ones followed later by a memorial ceremony. No more dead bodies on display to grieve over, but soothing ceremonies of remembrance.
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...The perceptive political scientist Michael Walzer (1983) has well caught the essence of this new spirit....
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...As Michael Ignatieff (1988) has acutely put it, “the modern world, for very good reasons, does not have a vernacular of fate....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on identity and how it is reflected in, and reproduced by, anxiety and insecurity at work and identify sources of anxiety concerns in their attempts to achieve perfection against this background of uncertain knowledge and precarious contexts of the performative nature of professional expertise.
Abstract: Through empirical research on academics and veterinary surgeons, this article focuses on identity and how it is reflected in, and reproduced by, anxiety and insecurity at work. Three analytical themes – perfection, performativity and commodified service – each of which generates anxiety indicates a loss of autonomy as academics and vets are subjected to competitive market forces as well as an intensification of masculine managerial controls of assessment, audit and accountability. We see these pressures and their effects as reflecting a commodification of service provision where the consumer (student or client) begins to redefine the relationship between those offering some expertise and those who are its recipients, partly achieved through the performative gaze of constant and visible rating mechanisms. Our empirical research also identifies sources of anxiety concerns in their attempts to achieve perfection against this background of uncertain knowledge and precarious contexts of the performative nature of professional expertise.
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...However, the level of institutionalized social inequalities in which, alongside the US, the UK might readily claim world leadership, make this equal opportunity mantra an obstacle race for all except a privileged elite minority (Bourdieu 1984; Walzer 1984)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore theory on effective communication practices, grounded in Habermas's Theory of Communica-tive Action, as well as research on effective group interaction to suggest that certain communicative capacities and collaborative processes that successfully face the challenge of e pluribus unum at the level of groups and organizations might also apply to broader communities.
Abstract: The American creed of e pluribus unum—out of many, one—has proven to be an elusive aspiration for societies throughout history. Research suggests that a s the diversity of a community increases, its stores of social capital decline. Yet, there exi sts a growing body of evidence that suggests under certain conditions, patterns of inclusion and collaboration are not only possible but predictable. This project explores theory on effective communication practices, grounded in Habermas’s Theory of Communica tive Action, as well as research on effective group interaction to suggest that certain communicative capacities and collaborative processes that successfully face the challenge of e pluribus unum at the level of groups and organizations might also apply to broader communities. After reviewing a series of case studies, a community learnin g model is offered as a way to promote those conditions more intentionally under a broader “civic canopy” as a way to help establish a new set of community norms—or a new civic operating system—that regards civil society as a type of associational ecosystem that can enable communities to better learn and adapt to the challenges they face.
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TL;DR: The claim that contemporary political philosophy is carried out in too ahistorical a fashion depends upon it being possible for historical facts to ground normative political principles as discussed by the authors, but this they cannot do.
Abstract: The accusation that contemporary political philosophy is carried out in too ahistorical a fashion depends upon it being possible for historical facts to ground normative political principles. This they cannot do. Each of the seven ways in which it might be thought possible for them to do so fails for one or more of four reasons: (1) History yields no timeless set of universal moral values; (2) it displays no convergence upon such a set; (3) it reveals no univocal moral or cultural context in the present; (4) the failure of an ethical tradition to successfully respond to criticism over a long period of time is no guarantee of its inability to do so. Because historical critiques of contemporary normative thought rely upon one or more of these things holding true, they are, as a class of arguments, to be rejected.
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...…normative ideas, it is said to be impossible for contemporary scholars to produce adequately grounded normative political principles (Taylor 1984, Walzer 1984, Taylor 1985, Macintyre 1988, Hampshire 1989, Rorty 1989, Taylor 1992, Dunn 1993, Gray 1995, Larmore 1996, Skinner 1998, Shklar 1998,…...
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TL;DR: This article developed a typology of IIPs on the grounds of investment amounts and status obligations, and applied this typology to map and examine IIPs in the EU context, where each Member State has at least one legal mechanism for granting residence or citizenship rights in exchange for investment.
Abstract: Immigrant investor programmes (IIPs) have mushroomed around the world in recent years. Focusing on the EU context, where each Member State has at least one legal mechanism for granting residence or citizenship rights in exchange for investment, this paper has a twofold objective. First, it seeks to develop a typology of IIPs on the grounds of investment amounts and status obligations. Second, the paper applies this typology to map and examine IIPs in the EU. Rather than looking in detail at the politics of investment-based migration in each country, this study identifies general conditions across states that enable different types of IIPs to develop.
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