Public Justification

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
The Public ◽  
Compatibility Relation ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Degree

This chapter develops a conception of the public justification of the moral rules that are the object of social trust. The goal is to explain how complying with moral rules and abiding by our personal values and commitments are compatible. When this compatibility relation is established, a system of social trust can sustain itself in the right way by driving appropriately trusting and trustworthy behavior, and motivating holding the untrustworthy accountable. When moral rules are publicly justified, that is, justified for each person by her own lights, the compatibility relation obtains and moral rules can then form the basis for trust and trustworthiness and so sustain a social system with a high degree of justified social trust-moral peace. The chapter explains precisely what is to be justified, the kinds of reasons that constitute public justifications, and how public justification is rooted in moral peace and social trust.

Realising immigration as a human right: public justification and cosmopolitan solidarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102098713
Author(s):  
David Martínez ◽  
Alexander Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Human Right ◽  
National State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The Right ◽  
Normative Justification

According to David Miller, immigration is not a human right. Conversely, Kieran Oberman makes a case for immigration as a human right. We agree with the latter view, but we show that its starting point is mistaken. Indeed, both Miller and Oberman discuss the right to immigration within the liberal paradigm: it is a right or not depending on the correct balance between the interests of the citizens of a given national state and the interests of the immigrants. Instead, we claim that public justification can underpin immigration as a human right. That said, the public justification of the right to immigration has several counterarguments to rebut. Before we deal with that issue, relying on Jürgen Habermas’s social theory, we examine the legal structures that could support the right to immigration in practice. To be sure, this does not provide the normative justification needed, instead it shows the framework that allows the institutional realization of this right. Then, through a combination of civic and cosmopolitan forms of solidarity, the article discusses the formation of a public sphere, which could provide the justification of the right to immigration.

Legal Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-155
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Social Trust ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
Legal Coercion ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

Previous chapters argue that maintaining a system of social trust in the right way requires that our shared moral rules be publicly justified. This chapter argues that coercive laws are required in order to strengthen a system of social trust by properly incentivizing trustworthy behavior in cases where moral sentiments and moral ostracism alone cannot provide strong enough reason to be trustworthy. Legal coercion can often stabilize moral rules that might otherwise collapse and create new moral rules that would not have otherwise existed. So law can be an efficient means of maintaining a system of trust by providing persons with additional incentives to engage in trustworthy behavior. This is how law is publicly justified, and so how the law acquires its moral authority.

Right-Wing Parties in Odessa in 1904 –1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 621-642
Author(s):  
Igor V. Omeliyanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Population ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The City

The article examines the creation, social structure, quantity, financing and main activity directions of the monarchist organizations in Odessa in 1904 – 1917. Odessa became one of the centers of the monarchist movement in Russia, in the period under consideration there were about ten right-wing organizations in the area, some of them being subsidiaries of the all-Russia parties, and some – independent parties. High degree of the city population politicization was conditioned by sharp interethnic and economic contradictions and became the cause of mass monarchic movement, while mixed social structure and personal conflicts among monarchist leaders promoted the split of active monarchist organizations in Odessa and the appearance of the new ones. Right-wing parties in Odessa played a prominent role in the public and political life of the city, especially in 1906 -1912. Then due to various reasons this influence started to decrease. With the beginning of the First World War the monarchist movement in Odessa experienced certain growth. However, the draft of right-wing activists to the army filed forces, the decrease of monarchist ideas popularity in society, as well as social and economic difficulties of the war time, very soon led to the critical weakening of the right organizations in Odessa, followed by their disappearance from the political arena in February of 1917.

Primary Rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 156-172
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Constitutional Choice ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
The Law ◽  
Conception Of The Good ◽  
Rational Plan

The ideas of moral peace, a system of trust, and public justification explain the need for a legal system that corrects and stabilizes moral rules that form the basis for social trust. Legal rules gain authority when they improve upon the system of moral rules. But some of society’s moral commitments merit protection over and above the law by constitutional rules that govern the ratification, reform, and repeal of laws. This chapter develops an account of the most fundamental constraints on justifiable constitutional rules—primary rights. Primary rights are rights that anyone with a rational plan of life would want for herself to pursue her conception of the good and justice, and ones she is willing to extend to others on reciprocal terms. These rights merit moral, legal, and constitutional protection, and begin the process of constitutional choice.

Trust and the Foundations of Public Justification

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-78
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Viewpoint Diversity ◽  
The Right

This chapter explains the great value found in a society where social trust is both high and grounded in the trustworthy behavior of all. It explains how social trust can be freely and respectfully sustained even under conditions of deep viewpoint diversity. Social trust has value in promoting social cooperation, economic development, and relations of love and friendship. But social trust cannot be grounded in recognizing these goods alone, as it must be based in observing the trustworthy behavior of others, and on respect for other persons within a system of trust. Toward this end, the chapter introduces two arguments, the argument from trustworthiness and the argument from accountability, which explain how social trust can be respectfully sustained and why the idea of public justification is essential for sustaining social trust in the right way.

Children’s maintenance obligations to parents versus the right to social welfare benefits

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Iwona Sierpowska ◽  
Anna Malicka-Ochtera
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social System ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Family ◽  
Financial Obligations ◽  
The Right

If they suffer privation, which means that they are unable to meet their basic needs on their own, parents are entitled to claim maintenance from their children. On the other hand, the difficult life situation caused by privation, linked with lack of self-sufficiency, is one of the reasons to claim social welfare benefits. Therefore, the same circumstances constitute the basis for financial support from both the family and the public social system. Because the laws do not explicitly define the order in which maintenance ought to be paid, this study attempts to establish the relation between the family’s and the State’s financial obligations. Based on the legal-dogmatic and analytical methods, this article presents: the essence of the right to maintenance and its forms in the Polish Social Welfare Act, the duties of the administrative bodies in bringing actions for maintenance, the consequences of failure in fulfilling maintenance obligations and of unjustified relinquishment of maintenance claims from family members. In the conclusion, the authors stress the primacy of family obligations over the State’s ones, and formulate recommendations for social welfare authorities as regards enforcing the fulfilment of family financial obligations.

Promosi Dan Informasi Media Audio Visual Berbentuk Video Profile Pada SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Kota Tangerang

CICES ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Faisal Rudiansyah Hamzah ◽  
Panji Wira Soma ◽  
Indri Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Message Delivery ◽  
The Public ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right

With the development of information technology in particular in the field of multimedia in such rapid and the longer forms of media information more diverse so that more education institutions boast. Media information and promotion is currently used by SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang. The purpose of this research audio visual media into the media information and proper promotion, by controlling hearing and vision in the form of audio visual in order to convey messages can be understood by the public at large. Existing problems, namely the medium used by the SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang still use print media such as banners, posters and pamplet are considered less effective and efficient to use while simultaneously promoting the institutions with the best possible audio visual media so that it is selected into a medium of information and promotion of the right, by controlling hearing and vision in the form of audio visual. Because therein lies the message delivery process or how to visualize. At the same time listening and showing the contents of the message to the recipient with information through media menunjangnya, so the design of video media profile that displays the entire scope, advantages and facilities belonging to SMK PGRI 11 Ciledug Tangerang, can be a solution in solving problems in media promotion and information. With this study the author makes with the title "promotion and INFORMATION AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA SHAPED VIDEO PROFILE on SMK PGRI 11 APPLICATIONS TANGERANG CITY ".

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