Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Debra Satz
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Joshua Cohen

The introduction to this collection of essays by leading academic scholars in the field of contemporary political philosophy presents the main themes of the book as these relate to, and are inspired by, the work of Joshua Cohen. As described, the book is divided into three parts. Part I, with chapters by Archon Fung, Assaf Sharon, and Stuart White, explores ways of reinvigorating democracy. Part II, with chapters by Christopher Lebron, Richard Locke, and Martha Nussbaum, tackles ways of confronting injustice. Part III, with chapters by Helena De Bres, Charles Sabel, and Annabelle Lever, offers principles for an interdependent world. There is also a brief afterword by Joshua Cohen and a list of his publications.

The Concept of Neutrality with Regard to Gender and Religion: A Critique Exemplified by the Approach of Martha Nussbaum

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Cornelia Mügge
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Basic Norm ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Comprehensive Doctrines ◽  
Political Norms

This article is about the meaning and the plausibility of the concept of neutrality with regard to debates on gender and religion in political philosophy. As an example, it takes the Capabilities Approach of Martha Nussbaum, which is particularly instructive as she advocates neutrality between comprehensive doctrines and, at the same time, attends to the challenges posed by gender and religion. Starting from an explanation of the meaning of the concept of neutrality in Nussbaum’s approach, the article focuses on objections against neutrality raised by feminist approaches. It discusses Nussbaum’s defence of neutrality and asks whether it is convincing or not, and to what extent. The article suggests a differentiation between neutrality as an ideal and the attribution of neutrality to actual political norms. It further argues that, whereas Nussbaum’s approach implies the latter conception, the former better corresponds to the basic norm of equal respect.

Ideas That Matter

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Collective Decision ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Collective Decision Making ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Joshua Cohen ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Political Principles

In this book, leading philosophers take up three ideas that are prominent in the work of Joshua Cohen. The first idea relates to reinvigorating democracy—improving collective decision-making by free and equal citizens. The second idea found in this volume relates to confronting injustice. What reason do those who have been systematically excluded from democracy’s promise have to obey the law or work together with others who have turned a blind eye on their situation? The third idea might be understood loosely in terms of political principles in an interdependent world. Where traditionally, theories of justice took the nation or the state to set the scope of principles of distributive justice, the rise of new institutions has put pressure on that bounded conception. This collection includes work by Martha Nussbaum, Charles Sabel, Stuart White, Archon Fung, and Chris Lebron, among others.

The Perfectionist Turn

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Den Uyl ◽  
Douglas Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Ethical Thinking ◽  
Stephen Darwall ◽  
Do So

Contemporary political philosophy—especially the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, and Amartya Sen—has assumed it can in various ways separate itself from more comprehensive philosophical positions and frameworks, and much of contemporary ethics—especially the works of Gerald Gaus and Stephen Darwall—has assumed that ethics can be based on a legislative or juridical model. Den Uyl and Rasmussen challenge both these trends. They do so by amplifying an account of human flourishing, which they call “individualistic perfectionism,” that they presented in their earlier work, Norms of Liberty. They continue to challenge the assumption that a neo-Aristotelian ethical framework cannot support a liberal, non-perfectionist political theory by describing in greater detail the nature of the perfectionist ethical approach they utilized in their previous political theorizing. They show that individualistic perfectionism represents a major and powerful alternative to much contemporary ethical thinking.

scholarly journals Democratic values, emotions and emotivism

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 723-738
Author(s):  
Bojan Vranic
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
The One

The aim of this paper is to explore the relation between democratic values and emotions. The author argues that democratic values and emotional judgments are inter-reducible: political agents use emotional judgments to reflexively evaluate normative paradigms of political life. In the first part of the paper, the author describes the state of emotions in contemporary political philosophy and identifies Charles Stevenson?s ethical conception of emotivism as the first comprehensive attempt to neutrally conceptualize emotions in moral and political thinking. The second part of the paper explores the shortcomings of emotivism and finds an adequate alternative in Martha Nussbaum?s concept of emotional judgment as the one that contains beliefs and values about social objects. In the final part of the paper, the author identifies that moral and political disagreements emerge in democracies from ranking of the importance of political objects. The evaluation criteria for this type of ranking is derived from democratic values which are reducible to agents? emotional judgments.

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