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Economic Justice
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01 Jan 1988TL;DR: In this paper, a minimal ethics and orientation for political theory is proposed, with a focus on action, rationality and normative discourse, and the foundations of communicative ethics as the two tasks of critical theory.
Abstract: Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Rationality, social theory and political philosophy 2. Action, rationality and normative discourse 3. Justice and the foundations of communicative ethics 4. Toward a minimal ethics and orientation for political theory 5. Communicative reason, modernity and contemporary capitalism 6. The two tasks of critical theory Notes Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: This article argued that a form of contractualism more individualistic than Rawls' would do better at addressing concerns about justice and the family raised by feminist theorists, and that it would also compel us to be more egalitarian.
Abstract: I contend that a form of contractualism more individualistic than Rawls’ would do better at addressing concerns about justice and the family raised by feminist theorists, and that it would also compel us to be more egalitarian. Dissatisfactions expressed with Rawls's neglect of issues related to gender and the family can only be addressed if ‘parties in the original position’ are strictly defined as individuals. Thus defined, they are not only able to address questions of justice within families, but can also explore the less familiar question of justice of the family, namely whether the family should exist, from the point of view of justice. I conclude by exploring the question of whether the family should be abolished, in view of its leading to life chances unequal between individuals, and compare the family with a generalized, well resourced and well run orphanage.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzes the processes whereby a new "penal common sense" aiming to criminalize poverty and thereby normalize precarious wage labor has incubated in America and is being internationalized, alongside the neoliberal economic ideology which it translates and complements in the realm of "justice".
Abstract: This article analyzes the processes whereby a new ‘penal common sense’ aiming to criminalize poverty and thereby normalize precarious wage labor has incubated in America and is being internationalized, alongside the neoliberal economic ideology which it translates and complements in the realm of ‘justice’. Three operations are distinguished in the transatlantic diffusion of this new doxa on ‘security’: (1) the gestation and dissemination of terms, theses, and measures that converge to penalize social insecurity and its consequences; (2) their borrowing, through a work of adaptation to the national cultural idiom and state tradition, by the officials of the different receiving countries; (3) the ‘academicization’ of the categories of neoliberal understanding by pseudo-social research that serves to legitimize the bolstering of the penal state.Denunciations of ‘urban violence’ and increased surveillance of ‘problem neighborhoods’, curfews and the targeting of petty drug offenders, deregulation and p...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the recent contributions made by feminists who advocate a distinctive "ethic of care" to replace the conventional "ethics of rights" and explore ways in which the eth...
Abstract: This article looks at the recent contributions made by feminists who advocate a distinctive ‘ethic of care’ to replace the conventional ‘ethic of rights’. The article explores ways in which the eth...
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01 Nov 1983
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an account of the central questions which Adam Smith was trying to answer when he wrote the Wealth of Nations, and the relation between Smith's concerns as a moral philosopher, as a professor of jurisprudence and as a political economist.
Abstract: Since … according to Smith, a society is not happy, of which the greater part suffers – yet even the wealthiest state of society leads to this suffering of the majority – and since the economic system (and in general a society based on private interest) leads to this wealthiest condition, it follows that the goal of the economic system is the unhappiness of society. Karl Marx, ‘Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844’ No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable… Compared, indeed, with the more extravagant luxury of the greater, [the labourer's] accommodation must no doubt appear extremely simple and easy – and yet it may be true, perhaps, that the accommodation of an European prince does not always so much exceed that of an industrious and frugal peasant, as the accommodation of the latter exceeds that of many an African king, the absolute master of the lives and liberties of ten thousand naked savages. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Bk I, Chs. I and VIII) No clear definition of the identity of political economy in eighteenth-century Scotland can be given unless an account is offered of the central questions which Adam Smith was trying to answer when he wrote the Wealth of Nations . This in turn requires that we should be able to understand the relation between Smith's concerns as a moral philosopher, as a professor of jurisprudence and as a political economist.
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