Realist Constructivism and Realist-Constructivisms
In: International studies review, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 348-352
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: International studies review, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 348-352
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 319-336
ISSN: 1581-1980
In: International studies review, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 325-342
ISSN: 1521-9488
World Affairs Online
In: Political studies review, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 176-183
ISSN: 1478-9302
Albert Weale's Democratic Justice and the Social Contract is an important book. It offers an innovative and original (proceduralist) account of justice. In so doing, it places what Brian Barry called 'the empirical method' at the centre of normative political philosophy's attempts to generate determinate answers to moral questions. This article-written from the perspective of someone sympathetic to both the commitment to mutual advantage and the empirical method – focuses on the kind of argument it is that Weale is offering and in particular on the nature of his constructivist project. It argues that Weale's commitment to equality lies outside the constructivist project and that this undermines his aspiration to genuine constructivism. The article goes on to consider, on the basis of arguments found in Democratic Justice and the Social Contract, various ways in which Weale might have grounded his egalitarian commitments from within the constructivist project.
In: IOER International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, Band 3, Heft 3
SSRN
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 75-78
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 75-78
ISSN: 1537-5935
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Working paper
In: International studies review, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 325-342
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: The soviet and post-soviet review, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 283-293
ISSN: 1876-3324
In: The soviet and post-soviet review, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 197-207
ISSN: 1876-3324
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 305-323
ISSN: 1476-9336
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls describes a metaethical procedure -- political constructivism -- whereby political theorists formulate political principles by assembling and reworking ideas from the public political culture. To many of his moral realist and moral constructivist critics, Rawls's procedure is simply a recent version of the "popular moral philosophy" that Kant excoriates in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. In this article, I defend the idea of political constructivism on philosophical and political grounds. Initially, I argue that political constructivism is the best available methodology for self-legislating, socially embedded and fallible human beings; then I show that political constructivism may produce principles that could garner the principled assent of Euro-American Muslims such as Taha Jabir Al-Alwani. The article concludes by considering how political constructivism might be employed to formulate new political principles for Euro-American societies experiencing and confronting the Islamic revival. Adapted from the source document.
In: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 513-527
ISSN: 1548-226X
AbstractTaking the complexity and diversity of Islamic law (fiqh) as a point of departure, this article examines a series of positions advanced by Muslim jurists on the relationship between law and astronomy. Focusing primarily on the question of the appropriateness of relying on astronomical calculations to determine the months of the hijri calendar, it considers three epistemological stances modeled by these positions: correspondence, constructivism, and representation. Taken together, these interventions constitute a minoritarian strain within the fiqh literature that exploited the practices, structures, and methods of reasoning of the Hanafi and Shafi'i legal schools (madhhabs) to argue in favor of the employment of astronomical calculations for ritual purposes. Though these were anomalous positions at variance from the dominant evidentiary regime that privileged perception over calculation, the view from the margins they afford provide a helpful window onto the nature of legal reasoning in Sunni Islam, revealing the importance of not only proximate social triggers to change, but also the relevance of more enduring features of madhhab reasoning—the school's role as a historical repository of jurists' opinions, the propensity to recruit the authority and argumentation of preceding departures, and the expectation to proceed with the majority regime in mind.
In: European review of international studies: eris, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 76-86
ISSN: 2196-7415
In: International affairs, Band 89, Heft 4, S. 1020-1021
ISSN: 0020-5850