Wanjiru Njoya, Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 281 pages
In: Journal of economics, race, and policy, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 61-63
ISSN: 2520-842X
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In: Journal of economics, race, and policy, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 61-63
ISSN: 2520-842X
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 200, Heft 5
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Journal des économistes et des études humaines: JEEH, Band 26, Heft 1
ISSN: 2153-1552
Abstract
Libertarianism upholds individual liberty as of primary political importance. The concern for liberty leads to support for highly limited government, and sometimes even anarchism. Sometimes people come under the mistaken impression that libertarians have such a myopic concern for individual liberty that they must oppose social rules and social order. While that is too extreme, libertarianism does seem to have significant tensions with social rules, and the role of social rules within libertarianism is complex and contentious. This work aims to bring out some of this complexity and to clarify the important place of social rules in libertarian thought.
In: Social philosophy & policy, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 217-236
ISSN: 1471-6437
Abstract:This essay argues that moral accountability depends upon having a shared system of social norms. In particular, it argues that the Strawsonian reactive attitude of resentment is only fitting when people can reasonably expect a mutual recognition of the justified demands to which they are being held. Though such recognition should not typically be expected of moral demands that are thought to be independent of any social practice, social norms can ground such mutual recognition. On this account, a significant part of a society's social norms are also properly seen as moral norms. The essay defends this overlap of social and moral norms in contrast to views on which moral norms and social norms are sharply distinguished. Lastly, the essay concludes by addressing challenges for accountability in circumstances of norm change.
In: Routledge handbooks
In: Social theory and practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 417-440
ISSN: 2154-123X
This article lays out the "functionalist" view according to which justice is a social technology for adjudicating competing claims, then defends the claim that any functional principles of justice must effectively coordinate the expectations of diverse members of society. From there, it argues that within the functionalist framework there cannot be any adequate conception of justice for society's basic institutional structure or constitution under conditions of reasonable pluralism. It concludes by discussing the theoretical place of emergent legal and constitutional principles within a functionalist theory.
In: Economy, Polity, and Society Series
Bringing together several scholars from different social science disciplines who relate Hayek's theory of social change to empirical phenomena and methodological debates within their respective disciplines, Toward a Hayekian Theory of Social Change explores Hayek's political economy and social philosophy in new perspective.