Self, Identity, and Politics in the Study of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy

Drawing upon insights from virtue ethics, this essay develops a concept of collective identity specifically suited to deliberative democracy: a virtues-centered theory of deliberative justice. Viewing democratic legitimacy as a political phenomenon, we must account for more than the formal rules that must be satisfied according to deontological theories of deliberative democracy. I argue that common approaches to deliberative democracy are unable to account for the motivations of deliberation, or ensure that citizens have the cognitive skills to deliberate well. Next, I engage with critics of deliberative democracy who have moved toward broader and more humanistic concepts of deliberation but have stopped short of conceiving of justice as a virtue and, in their own way, neglected questions of collective identity. I reconstruct justice as a virtue from a deliberative perspective, combining virtue ethics’ emphasis on habituation with a weaker sense of collective identity that allows for value pluralism and disagreement, consistent with deliberative democracy. That is, deliberative democracy requires a shared and habituated civic culture of mutual understanding of differences. Finally, drawing from discourse on race in contemporary American politics, I conclude with brief illustrations of the need for a collective identity based on mutual understanding. Although deliberative democracy does not require a thick or intense sense of social solidarity, it does need citizens to share habits, inclinations, and capacities to engage in communication across their differences.

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KONSTRUKSI MAKNA BAKUPUKUL MANYAPU BAGI MASYARAKAT MAMALA MALUKU

Jurnal Antropologi Isu-Isu Sosial Budaya ◽

10.25077/jantro.v21.n1.p61-72.2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Sulaeman Sulaeman ◽

Mahdi Malawat ◽

Darma Darma

Keyword(s):

Symbolic Interaction ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Meaning Construction ◽

Social Solidarity ◽

Observation Study ◽

Self Identity ◽

Social Construction Theory ◽

Self Confidence ◽

Ritual Communication ◽

Depth Interviews

Bakupukul manyapu is a ritual whipping each other's limbs to hurt and bleed with healing oils Mamala as nonverbal communication. The purpose of this study is to find and explain the motives, meaning and experience of Mamala society do bakupukul manyapu ritual communication. The research method using the phenomenological method that focuses on the study of meaning bakupukul manyapu ritual communication the perspective Mamala community who experience it. The research uses a qualitative approach based on constructivist paradigm with the technique of collecting data through in-depth interviews, participatory observation, study, library and documentation with supporting data based on Phenomenology perspective, symbolic interaction and social construction theory. The subject is Mamala society the perpetrator bakupukul manyapu with the purposive sampling technique. The result that Mamala society the bakupukul manyapu have a motive "because" that is the motive proud, call, test yourself, and prove, and the motive "for" attention, self-status, self-publication, and self-identity. Bakupukul manyapu experience the pain early, bloody body lashes, whip instead of the mayhem, physical appearance, the blood is dirty, self-confidence, and oil treatment. Bakupukul manyapu meaning is the offering, solicitation, hope, and social solidarity. Meaning construction that bakupukul manyapu is interesting tradition, whipping each other, challenging the local wisdom, confidence, and trust in the conduct of treatment the indigenous Mamala Moluccas of tradition ritual communication.

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Self, Identity, and Politics in the Study of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity

The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity ◽

10.1057/9781137391865.0025 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Peter L. Callero

Keyword(s):

Social Solidarity ◽

Self Identity

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CILINAYA: NASKAH SASAK BERNUANSA ISLAM

Analisa Journal of Social Science and Religion ◽

10.18784/analisa.v15i02.332 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (02) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

R Aris Hidayat

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

National Identity ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Social Solidarity ◽

Human Being ◽

Self Identity ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Moral Aspect ◽

Moral Ethics ◽

Islamic Literature

Currently there is an indication of crisis of self-identity/national identity. This is remarked by blurred social solidarity, kinship, and so cial friendliness in line with reinforced materialism values. To re strenghten self-identity I national-identity, government and society try to discover values in manuscripts. Manuscripts are past cultural trea sures that full of noble values. This research aimed to discover and to re-actualize noble values in a manuscript as an improvement and strengthen model of social solidarity, kinship and social friendliness values that tend to blur.This research examined a manuscript entitled Cilinaya. This manu script is a Sasak's Islamic manuscript stored in West Nusa Tenggara Museum. The aim of current research are to discover Islamic thoughts in Sasak 's manuscript expected to contain noble values as a source of improvement and strengthening social solidarity, kinship and social friendliness that currently are blurring. The research used philology approach and content analysis with Roland Barthes' semiotic postructural method to discover cultural codes in this literature work.The results showed that (I) Cilinaya manuscript of such palm leaves is one of Sasak's syncretism Islamic literature works. It contents Is lamic and Hinduism substances as well as local custom. (2) Islamic substances in Cilinaya manuscript are oneness and morals. Oneness related to oneness of God (Allah), while morals related to human being interrelationship. This moral aspect regulated moral ethics and behav ioral rules in their society life. ( 3) Hinduism and custom aspects in this manuscript covered different human being classes based on caste and presenting offerings to God and considered God as a point to asking and prayerful for help.

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