In the Beginning Was the Dead: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Volume 9, Issue 4, p. 490-507
ISSN: 1470-8914
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In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Volume 9, Issue 4, p. 490-507
ISSN: 1470-8914
Horowitz (2000) http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17180/article_detail.asp argues that politics should be viewed as war; participants in political discourse should be defined as friends or enemies; and arguments should be viewed largely as weapons. This makes valuing dissensus and a search for common ground naïve at best, and counterproductive and useless at worse. This essay will explore the nature of Horowitz' position and the future search for common ground needed for the valuing of dissensus.
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In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that care cannot be a useful moral and political concept until its traditional and ideological associations as a "women's morality" are challenged.Moral Boundaries contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. In our society, members of unprivileged groups such as the working classes and people of color also do disproportionate amounts of caring. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.
Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented by his many works on ethics, which have important implications for political theory
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 168-170
ISSN: 0032-3470
In: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft: IPG = International politics and society, Issue 3, p. 101-113
ISSN: 0945-2419
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In: The Western political quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, p. 603-622
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 542-546
ISSN: 0090-5917
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Volume 4, Issue 2, p. 375-376
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Perspectives on political science, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 125
ISSN: 1045-7097
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Forest Enhancement (REDD+) has become a central focus of global climate change mitigation efforts. Even though the international demand for forest-based carbon sequestration is the key driver of REDD+, forest protection strategies must be implemented on the ground. This cross-scale nature of REDD+ explains why scholars and policy makers increasingly favor nested governance arrangements over either fully centralized or fully decentralized REDD+ governance. The focus of the literature on nested REDD+ governance has mostly been on monitoring, reporting, and verification of carbon emission reductions across sub-national, national, and international levels. We build on Ostrom's principle of 'nested enterprises' to argue that REDD+ must be designed to systematically and formally link national policy reforms with the organization and execution of sub-national (regional and local) forest conservation efforts led by forest users. We also contribute new insights on the political dimensions of nestedness in REDD+, with important roles for inter-community forestry associations and forest rights movements.
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and Forest Enhancement (REDD+) has become a central focus of global climate change mitigation efforts. Even though the international demand for forest-based carbon sequestration is the key driver of REDD+, forest protection strategies must be implemented on the ground. This cross-scale nature of REDD+ explains why scholars and policy makers increasingly favor nested governance arrangements over either fully centralized or fully decentralized REDD+ governance. The focus of the literature on nested REDD+ governance has mostly been on monitoring, reporting, and verification of carbon emission reductions across sub-national, national, and international levels. We build on Ostrom's principle of 'nested enterprises' to argue that REDD+ must be designed to systematically and formally link national policy reforms with the organization and execution of sub-national (regional and local) forest conservation efforts led by forest users. We also contribute new insights on the political dimensions of nestedness in REDD+, with important roles for inter-community forestry associations and forest rights movements.
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In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 163-189
In The Problem of Political Authority, Michael Huemer argues that the contractarian and consequentialist groundings of political authority are unsuccessful, and, in fact, that there are no adequate contemporary accounts of political authority. As such, the modern state is illegitimate and we have reasons to affirm political anarchism. We disagree with Huemer's conclusion. But we consider Huemer's critiques of contractarianism and consequentialism to be compelling. Here we will juxtapose, alongside Huemer's critiques, a theistic account of political authority from Nicholas Wolterstorff's book The Mighty and the Almighty. We think that Wolterstorff's model does better than contractarianism and consequentialism at answering Huemer's critiques. We also think that an abductive basis for God's existence emerges from the inadequate authority accounts that Huemer surveys.
In: Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft: IPG = International politics and society, Issue 3, p. 101-113