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movements in political philosophy over the last twenty years. The resulting collection of essays, which includes selections from the majority of the major thinkers over that time frame, can be deemed a ... political theory. These key questions include the philosophy of social explanation, the idea of distributive justice, and the general discussions surrounding the liberalism/communitarianism debate. The last
to ward off the charges of ethical relativism. Charges that have become increasingly prevalent in light of the success and popularity of the political theory of John Rawls, articulated in his work, A ... background for this collection of essays but, Tessitore argues, the background for the modern political debate. Modern political theorists in both the communitarian and liberal camps have attempted to use
Essays Philos Book Review | Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy Roger Chao Over the past decade, a plethora of anthologies on contemporary (non-historical) political philosophy have been ... published, each one attempting to do the same thing, provide a comprehensive, and non-biased survey of the current state of play, outlining where the field of political philosophy is currently at. With the
thought summarizes neatly what Roberto Esposito’s Philosophy for Europe contributes to contemporary political philosophy – or what it might contribute, were it not for its author’s arrogance. The book is an ... facing Europe today. In what follows, I will focus less on these philosophical and historical aspects of Esposito’s book and more on its political implications. A philosophy for Europe consists of five
reluctantly agreed to let his lecture notes on moral and political philosophy be published. Rawls was quite concerned that his written lectures didn't really do justice to the figures, books, and topics that he ... well-constructed discussions that are book-like in their form and structure. These lectures serve as an interesting set of historical analyses on key figures in political philosophy, and are written in
Peoples, would reject the supreme emergency exemption. After discussing this problem, I will conclude by arguing that currently terrorism does not constitute a supreme emergency. Political Philosophy and ... History Political philosophy is an ambiguous enterprise.3 It is concerned with questions of principles about justice and morality. But this concern is connected with the changing nature of historical
existential conditions in Africa through the framework of Social and Political Philosophy, Africa’s Recent Experience, and more recently, Philosophy of Development and Development Ethics. [See for example ... deployed as the new guiding philosophy or ideology for Africa‘s socio-economic and political integration that could also facilitate the demand for reparation and overall justice within the global village
Essays in Philosophy by Douglas R. Anderson. Perhaps because philosophers are perpetual beginners, I am drawn to beginnings; and the one Douglas Anderson has written for Philosophy Americana is a ... is doing or has done philosophy in the United States. He seeks an understanding of “American philosophy” (or “philosophy Americana”) analogous to the evolving, open-ended, decidedly fluid music
interpretive essays on Heidegger’s thought on death, to pieces on the significance of death for life and for philosophy. Although nearly all of the authors are professors in philosophy departments, there are ... , although Betty S. Flowers, the poet, does lament the death of the afterlife in both literature and philosophy (pp. 53-56). However, this lack of diversity on that issue is made up for, in my opinion, by the
This essay treats the field of philosophy and the study of disability such that each may be conceived of in terms of the other, perhaps to the extent that they may be thought of as one. First, it ... would reveal the enterprise to be pragmatic, probably, or at least a matter of the sciences, human or otherwise, and thus arguably the inquiry would fall outside the field of philosophy. Much, if not most
Kant being dead and all, but I still kind of suspect he might’ve won. The point of our disagreement involved how to teach philosophy to introductory students, those students who probably have never taken ... a philosophy course and may not even really understand what the point of the discipline is, or why they should care. Poor Kant was more of an innocent bystander than anything, but I came out swinging
philosophical attention. In this paper I recover the philosophy of Capetillo as part of a Latin American and Caribbean philosophical tradition centered on radical praxis which placed sexuality at the centerfold ... emancipation, Capetillo’s thought serves as an entry point into a broader vision of the political philosophy of the Americas that centers on the role that women have played in the production of thought. Toward
), justice (applied moral and political philosophy), and meta-ethics. The majority of the lectures (nine of the twelve) are housed under the morality section, with only one lecture on justice and two on meta ... philosophy. Lecture ten, “Neo-Aristotelian Reflections on Justice” (originally published in 2004) attempts to see a dialogue engaged between Aristotle and contemporary liberal political philosophers about
Essays in Philosophy Readers of John Rawls's magisterial A Theory of Justice (1971) will have noted the massive historical learning that underlay Rawls's construction of a theoretical model of ... in society, asking people to efficiently pursue their self-interest has the same consequence as asking them to decide what is best for everyone considered impartially. The basis of Rawls' political
It is sometimes remarked that while the preoccupation with the history of technology is a mature and well-established discipline, the preoccupation with the philosophy of technology is at best recent ... then looks at the epistemological values and goals embedded respectively in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology, to consider their overlap as well as their differences. It uses the
Essays in Philosophy Understanding the Political Philosophers is a work on the history of political thought; in it Haworth outlines major developments in political philosophy from Socrates to ... Rawls. Haworth does not aspire to offer a complete account of these developments yet he does attempt to present themes from the history of political philosophy that speak to a contemporary audience. As
shows how Wittgenstein’s philosophy, together with broader intellectual trends, reflects and contributes to totalitarian currents in the social, political and economic fabric of advanced industrialised ... living, modes of social and political organisation and so forth are better than others, and, moreover, that these better conditions are realisable. A philosophy that criticises ways of thinking that
Essays in Philosophy With a few possible exceptions,1 Martin Heidegger is arguably one of the first philosophers to explicitly discuss the implications of a philosophy of technology. In fact, some ... publication of Being and Time that Heidegger was able to refine his project regarding the philosophy of technology. Many scholars contend that Heidegger's later works are actually more representative of the
Essays in Philosophy Reviewing Christopher New's analytic philosophy of literature is akin to reviewing an autopsy: one is aware of a meticulous examination, the object of which was (but is not ... now) alive, the successful outcome of which will be a determination of the cause of death. Autopsies serve a useful purpose, and the same may be said of analytic philosophy applied to literature; but
Volume 1526-0569 Philosophy Bites Again Steven Ross Hunter College/The Graduate Center CUNY Philosophy Bites Again - Twenty-seven short interviews with prominent philosophers on a wide range of ... subjects, Philosophy Bites Again (“PBA”) is indeed pretty much as it advertises itself – lively, intriguing, sometimes remarkably helpful, to even the most experienced of philosophers. But the “pretty much
