Just Freedom A Moral Compass For A Complex World
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Author |
: Philip Pettit |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2014-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393063974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393063976 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by : Philip Pettit
Freedom, in Philip Pettit's provocative analysis, requires more than just being let alone. In Just Freedom, a succinct articulation of the republican philosophy for which he is renowned, Pettit builds a theory of universal freedom as nondomination. Seen through this lens, even societies that consider themselves free may find their political arrangements lacking. Do those arrangements protect people's liberties equally? Are they subject to the equally shared control of those they protect? Do they allow the different peoples of the world to live in equal freedom? With elegant, user-friendly tests of freedom--the eyeball test, the tough luck test, and the straight talk test--Pettit addresses these questions, laying out essential yardsticks for policymakers and concerned citizens alike. An invitation to join in a program that would better articulate and realize justice in our social, democratic, and international lives, Just Freedom offers readers an essential starting place for the world's thorniest problems.
Author |
: Philip Pettit |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2014-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393243017 |
ISBN-13 |
: 039324301X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World by : Philip Pettit
An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas. In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic progress. Whereas many thinkers define freedom as the absence of interference—we are left alone to do as we please—Pettit demands that in their basic life choices free persons should not even be subject to a power of interference on the part of others. This notion of freedom as non-domination offers a yardstick for gauging social and democratic progress and provides a simple, unifying standard for analyzing our most entangled political quandaries. Pettit reaffirms the ideal, already present in the Roman Republic, of a free citizenry who enjoy equal status with one another, being individually protected by a law that they together control. After sketching a fresh history of freedom, he turns to the implications of the ideal for social, democratic, and international justice. Should the state erect systems for delivering mandatory healthcare coverage to its citizens? Should voting be a citizen’s only means of influencing political leaders? Are the demands of the United Nations to be heeded when they betray the sovereignty of the state? Pettit shows how these and other questions should be resolved within a civic republican perspective. Concise and elegant in its rhetoric and ultimately radical in its reimagining of our social arrangements, Just Freedom is neither a theoretical treatise nor a practical manifesto, but rather an ardent attempt to elaborate the demands of freedom and justice in our time.
Author |
: Philip Pettit |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107005112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107005116 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the People's Terms by : Philip Pettit
A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require.
Author |
: John Broome |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2012-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393084092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393084094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (Norton Global Ethics Series) by : John Broome
A vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate. Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal standards of goodness and justice require of us, both as citizens and as governments. His conclusions—some as demanding as they are logical—will challenge and enlighten. Eco-conscious readers may be surprised to hear they have a duty to offset all their carbon emissions, while policy makers will grapple with Broome’s analysis of what if anything is owed to future generations. From the science of greenhouse gases to the intricate logic of cap and trade, Broome reveals how the principles that underlie everyday decision making also provide simple and effective ideas for confronting climate change. Climate Matters is an essential contribution to one of the paramount issues of our time.
Author |
: Benjamin Pratt |
Publisher |
: Front Edge Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781934879122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1934879126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins and 007's Moral Compass by : Benjamin Pratt
Here's a book that will open your eyes and fascinate you with the many guises of evil in our times. It's also a book that will usefully disturb you, as you find these evil processes at work in your own life. Ultimately, it's a book that will reward your efforts as you look at evil through the eyes of Ian Fleming's James Bond. Like bond, you too might be roused to take on the dragons of evil in our midst. Great for individual reflection or small group study. Includes a complete study guide and other extras to help you quickly spark discussion in your group.
Author |
: William Maley |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190652388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190652381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis What is a Refugee? by : William Maley
"Refugee" is a commonplace term that obscures myriad personal stories, many contradictions and a more complex history than most people imagine, as William Maley demonstrates.
Author |
: Shannon Vallor |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190851187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019085118X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology by : Shannon Vallor
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology.
Author |
: Catia Cecilia Confortini |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2012-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199845231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199845239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intelligent Compassion by : Catia Cecilia Confortini
Intelligent Compassion traces changes in the ideas and policies of the longest-living international women's organization between 1945 and 1975. Focusing on disarmament, decolonization and the Middle East, it finds answers to IR questions about the possibility of emancipatory agency in the theoretical practices of women peace activists.
Author |
: Amartya Sen |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2011-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674060470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674060474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of Justice by : Amartya Sen
Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
Author |
: Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 735 |
Release |
: 2007-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466804272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466804270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.