scholarly journals Reclaiming the Commons: Law, Rhetoric, and C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatic Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 174387212093593
Author(s):  
Sarah Hakimzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Legitimacy ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Pragmatic Philosophy

This article returns to C.S. Peirce’s pragmatic philosophy and Roberta Kevelson’s law and semiotics framework in order to propose a theory of justice that is rooted in rhetoric and the community’s evolving sense of legal legitimacy. It argues that this community is best conceptualized as part of the commons, the basis for a governance paradigm that is newly emerging from the world of activism. After providing an overview of the theory, it describes two promising litigation efforts designed to reclaim the commons from privatization.

Realism and Poetry

2019 ◽  
pp. 485-505
Author(s):  
Jonathan N. Barron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
New Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Sara Teasdale ◽  
Pragmatic Philosophy

American poetic realism still remains a largely unknown and untold story. Although it came to American poetry relatively late by comparison with fiction, the typical American realist poem has a distinctive nexus combining theme, diction, and style. Chief among the first American realists are Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Sara Teasdale. Specifically, realist poetry expresses a pragmatic philosophy rejecting the individual’s location in the world as something knowable, fixed, and stable. Realist poets reject as amoral and quietist the commitment to beauty for the sake of beauty and tend toward virtues associated with masculinity. Their poetry rejects generic nouns in favor of particulars and depicts recognizable contemporary landscapes and, above all, contemporary American cities such as Chicago, Boston, or New York. It emphasizes the interior space of the self as revealed by the new science of psychology. It also focuses on the living idiom of talk and speech rather than a “literary” language.

scholarly journals Rawls weltweit

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (121) ◽  
pp. 611-626
Author(s):  
Urs Müller-Plantenberg
Keyword(s):  
World Society ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Closed Society

Rawls‘ Theory of justice is related to a „closed“ society. His theory is discussed under the conditions of globalization, where the world society is the only useful meaning of a closed society. But insofar societies are organised in different states, people have to regard the needs of „outsiders“, if they want to practice a minimum of justice.

What Can I Hope about the Earth’s Future Climate? Affective Resources for Overcoming Intergenerational Distance, Kantian and Otherwise

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political History ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Problems

AbstractWhile climate change involves spatial, epistemological, social, and temporal remoteness, each type of distance can be bridged with strategies unique to it that can be borrowed from analogous moral problems. Temporal, or intergenerational, distance may actually be a motivational resource if we look at our natural feelings of hope for the future of the world, via Kant’s theory of political history, and for our children. Kant’s theory of hope also provides some basis for including future generations in a theory of justice.

Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 55-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Velicu ◽  
Gustavo García-López
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Multiple Exposures ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Ambiguous Effect

In this paper we propose an ‘undisciplinary’ meeting between Elinor Ostrom and Judith Butler, with the intent to broaden the theory of the commons by discussing it as a relational politics. We use Butler’s theory of power to problematize existing visions of commons, shifting from Ostrom’s ‘bounded rationality’ to Butler’s concepts of ‘bounded selves’ and mutual vulnerability. To be bounded – as opposed to autonomous being – implies being an (ambiguous) effect of socio-power relations and norms that are often beyond control. Thus, to be a collective of bounded selves implies being mutually vulnerable in power relations which are enabling, albeit injurious. A politics of commoning is not a mere technical management of resources (in space) but a struggle to perform common livable relations (in time). We argue that the multiple exposures which produce us are also the conditions of possibility for more just and equalitarian ‘re-commoning’ of democracies around the world.

Agent-Based Simulation for Consumers’ Behavior Mode on Low-Carbon Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1524-1528
Author(s):  
Fu Qun
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Energy Consuming ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Transitioning to purchasing low carbon buildings is vital for pro-environment because it consume less energy. Consumers’ attitudes may fall into three categories: Supportive, opposed and neutral. By simulating the agents’ behaviors based on evolutionary models which believes that buying low carbon buildings can reduce energy consuming and protect environment. At the same time, it assumes environment is shared by all the agents and those against the low carbon won’t receive penalty. Human being can exploit renewable and new energy with developed technology. Evolutionary theory explains people who get energy will affect people’s attitudes around them, while those lack of energy will change their behaviors. Research proves that opponents will dominant in the world without punishments and their behaviors increase pollution. So it is necessary to improve social education and let government to take administrative compulsory measures or legislate in order to get rid of “tragedy of the commons” produced by consuming non-low carbon buildings.

I. The Committee-Men in the Long Parliament, August 1642–December 1643

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Glow
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The Political ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons

It has been said that the Civil War was won by committees. Recent writers on this subject have begun to show how parliamentary policy and its execution was forged in the committee chambers rather than on the crowded floor of the House of Commons. This article is concerned with the personnel of these committees, in particular with those men who were not famous for their political activities and attitudes. Obviously, a core of leaders was needed in order to direct the business of the committees, to give continuity to their proceedings and to ensure that their work was in accord with the policy of the Commons. But the political ‘parties’ were relatively small, and with all the enthusiasm in the world their members could not attend personally to all aspects of government, civil and military. This study is concerned with the men who had no known political views but who contributed a great deal of time and effort to the running of parliamentary affairs. Because of their relative obscurity in the House it will be useful to ask why they were chosen to serve on certain committees, how their background and activity compared with that of their more ‘political’ colleagues, and how they reacted to situations where they were required to take a political stand. Above all, it will be possible to judge whether these men formed a coherent group rather than a random collection of individuals. These men owed their positions to their administrative skill rather than to their political affiliations. As administrators they were responsible to the legislature, and during a time of intensified state intervention, they became analogous to a non-political civil service, ready to execute the policy decisions of the party leaders.

scholarly journals TEORI KEADILAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF FILSAFAT HUKUM DAN ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kurniawan Budi Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law

The existence of Islamic law in the world is to regulate human life, both as a person and as a member of society in order to behave according to the wishes of the Creator. This is different from the general concept of law which is only intended to regulate human life as members of society or in other word the law exists because of the conflict of human interest. Among the problems in the philosophy of Islamic law, the most frequent discourse is about the issue of justice in relation to the law. This is because the law or regulation must be fair, but in fact it is often not. This paper will describe this issue of justice from the perspective of legal philosophy and Islam. In the perspective of legal philosophy, the author will only parse the theory of justice Aristotle and John Rawl. Whereas in the perspective of Islamic legal philosophy, the author will parse the theory of the Muktazilah and Asyariyah divine justice, and the Islamic Maqasyid Theory as the ideals of Islamic legal social justice.

scholarly journals Towards an Ethnography Commons

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eli Elinoff
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Transformative Research ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Writing Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

How might the notion of an ethnography commons transform ethnographic research practice and pedagogy? In this paper, I consider how the concept of the commons, in all of its messiness, might provide a way of not only addressing questions surrounding the boundaries of ethnographic research and knowledge that have been fundamental to anthropology since Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus 1986), but also for crafting more transformative research and social interventions into the world itself. I do so first by considering how contemporary structures of capitalism are shaping the university, our research, and our relationships with our students. Then, I trace the ways in which the debates about the boundaries of ethnography have transformed research and pedagogy over the last 20 years. Finally, I conclude by suggesting a number of potential trajectories for acting on the promise of the commons through ethnographic teaching and research.

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