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Amartya Sen
In: Contemporary philosophy in focus
The social contract theorists: critical essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
In: Critical essays on the classics
The Neo-liberal State. By Raymond Plant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 283p. $95 cloth, $40 paper
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 557-558
ISSN: 1541-0986
STATE COERCION AND FORCE
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 28-49
ISSN: 1471-6437
AbstractState power is widely thought to be coercive. The view that governments must wield force or that their power is necessarily coercive is widespread in contemporary political thought. John Rawls is representative in claiming that (political power is always coercive power backed up by the government(s use of sanctions, for government alone has the authority to use force in upholding its laws.( This belief in the centrality of coercion and force plays an important but not well appreciated role in contemporary political thought. I wish to challenge this belief and the considerations that motivate it. States are not necessarily coercive or coercive (by definition.( Their claimed authority is prior to the force they wield. Legitimate states should need to resort to coercion and force much less than other states, and that fact seems unappreciated in contemporary political thought.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH IMPERIALISM?
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 153
ISSN: 1471-6437
NATURAL RIGHTS AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 314-329
ISSN: 1471-6437
If we have a natural right to liberty, it is hard to see how a state
could be legitimate without first obtaining the (genuine) consent of the
governed. I consider the threat natural rights pose to state legitimacy.
I distinguish minimal from full legitimacy and explore different
understandings of the nature of our natural rights. Even though I conclude
that natural rights do threaten the full legitimacy of states, I suggest
that understanding our natural right to liberty to be grounded in our
interests in a certain way might not commit us to requiring consent for
minimal legitimacy. Thus, even if natural rights effectively block the full
legitimacy of states - on the assumption that rarely, if ever, the requisite
consent will be forthcoming - they may allow minimal state legitimacy.
The Very Idea of Popular Sovereignty: "We the People" Reconsidered
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1471-6437
The sovereignty of the people, it is widely said, is the foundation of modern democracy. The truth of this claim depends on the plausibility of attributing sovereignty to "the people" in the first place, and I shall express skepticism about this possibility. I shall suggest as well that the notion of popular sovereignty is complex, and that appeals to the notion may be best understood as expressing several different ideas and ideals. This essay distinguishes many of these and suggests that greater clarity at least would be obtained by focusing directly on these notions and ideals and eschewing that of sovereignty. My claim, however, will not merely be that the notion is multifaceted and complex. I shall argue as well that the doctrine that the people are, or ought to be, sovereign is misleading in potentially dangerous ways, and is conducive to a misunderstanding of the nature of politics, governance, and social order. It would be well to do without the doctrine, but it may be equally important to understand its errors. Our understandings and justifications of democracy, certainly, should dispense with popular sovereignty.
Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
In: History of European ideas, Band 21, Heft 5, S. 721-722
ISSN: 0191-6599
Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.Klaus R. Scherer
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 288-290
ISSN: 1468-2508
Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 288-290
ISSN: 0022-3816
The Relation between Self-Interest and Justice in Contractarian Ethics
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 119-153
ISSN: 1471-6437
One of the most noteworthy features of David Gauthier's rational choice, contractarian theory of morality is its appeal to self-interested rationality. This appeal, however, will undoubtedly be the source of much controversy and criticism. For while self-interestedness is characteristic of much human behavior, it is not characteristic of all such behavior, much less of that which is most admirable. Yet contractarian ethics appears to assume that humans are entirely self-interested. It is not usually thought a virtue of a theory that its assumptions are literally false. What may be said on behalf of the contractarian?
Foundations of Social Choice Theory. Edited by Jon Elster and Aanund Hylland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii, 250p. $32.50)
In: American political science review, Band 81, Heft 3, S. 1055-1057
ISSN: 1537-5943
Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political Philosophy. By James S. Fishkin. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 201. $22.00.)
In: American political science review, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 602-603
ISSN: 1537-5943