Justice and Reconciliation as Social Recognition: A Reading from The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate of Hegel and Its Update in Axel Honneth

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Adilson Felicio Feiler
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Normative Principle ◽  
Principle Of Justice ◽  
Justice Model

Our research reflects on the passing of a justice model linked to moral law imputes, positive punishment for non-compliance, for a model that reconciles justice. Following this line of thought, we add the contributions of Axel Honneth, according to which the establishment of a normative principle of justice must provide guidance for political action. This was only made possible to the extent that such principles are allied to social practices. By analyzing the Spirit of Christianity and its Fate, an early work of Hegel, we intend to verify the relevance of the concept of justice, for the design of the hegelian attack on the positive law and subsequent defense of ethics as reconciliation and fullness of life. From the understanding of justice as reconciliation in Hegel we approach that which underlies the reconstruction of social practices as Honneth understands.

An Unfamiliar and Positive Law: On Kant and Schiller

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reed Winegar
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: A familiar post-Kantian criticism contends that Kant enslaves sensibility under the yoke of practical reason. Friedrich Schiller advanced a version of this criticism to which Kant publicly responded. Recent commentators have emphasized the role that Kant’s reply assigns to the pleasure that accompanies successful moral action. In contrast, I argue that Kant’s reply relies primarily on the sublime feeling that arises when we merely contemplate the moral law. In fact, the pleasures emphasized by other recent commentators depend on this sublime feeling. These facts illuminate Kant’s views regarding the relationship between morality, freedom, and the development of moral feelings.

scholarly journals Kant's Theory of Punishment

Utilitas ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thom Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Moral Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Criminal Culpability

The most widespread interpretation amongst contemporary theorists of Kant's theory of punishment is that it is retributivist. On the contrary, I will argue there are very different senses in which Kant discusses punishment. He endorses retribution for moral law transgressions and consequentialist considerations for positive law violations. When these standpoints are taken into consideration, Kant's theory of punishment is more coherent and unified than previously thought. This reading uncovers a new problem in Kant's theory of punishment. By assuming a potential offender's intentional disposition as Kant does without knowing it for certain, we further exacerbate the opportunity for misdiagnosis – although the assumption of individual criminal culpability may be all we can reasonably be expected to use. While this difficulty is not lost on Kant, it continues to remain with us today, making Kant's theory of punishment far more relevant than previously thought.

scholarly journals From Social Recognition of Property to Political Recognition by the State

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Christopher Serkin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Core Property ◽  
Takings Clause ◽  
Definition Of

Gerhart’s book makes real contributions and nicely incorporates doctrinal payoffs. It sells short, however, the distributional concerns embedded in core property doctrines and so does not entirely account for the extent to which positive law can and does diverge from social recognition. It therefore admits constitutional protection for property that is too parsimonious, and that also does not embrace the full complexity of the relationship between property and the State. This short response argues that positive property rights—especially in a modern regulatory state—are inherently redistributive. When the State has a choice between different regulatory strategies for achieving public goals, constitutional limits like the Takings Clause should not rely on formal categories but must instead account explicitly for distributive concerns. At the end of the day, the State is an active, not passive, player in the definition of property rights, a role that comes with both constitutional limitations and requirements.

Interpreting Kant's Theory of Divine Commands

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 128-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Kain
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Autonomy Of Ethics ◽  
Divine Commands ◽  
Rule Out

Kant rejected ‘theological morality’, insisting that no one, including God, can be the ‘author’ of the moral law because the moral law is a categorically necessary, non-positive law. Kant was also no religious enthusiast and clearly intended to rule out certain kinds of dependence of ethics on theology. Such considerations make it tempting to suggest that Kant was fully committed to what has been called the ‘autonomy of ethics’ from theology. Yet an observant reader of Kant's corpus is constantly confronted with passages in which Kant discusses philosophical theology, connections between moral philosophy and theology, and even argues that we should ‘recognize all our duties as divine commands’ (KpV, 5: 129).

Towards an Arendtian Conception of Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-239
Author(s):  
Yasemin Sari
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Principle Of Justice

Abstract This article argues that Arendt’s rich account of the political necessarily involves an implicit, but never fully worked out, phenomenological articulation of justice in her work. Arendt’s unique articulation of the role of judgment in political action provides us with the outline of an Arendtian principle of justice that relieves the tension between idealist and realist theories of justice. Building on this role of judgment, I aim to emphasize the phenomenological premise of identifying the conditions for the possibility of the political in empirico-historical events rooted in her ideas of plurality and freedom. By showing that, for Arendt, justice is a phenomenon like power and equality, we can make progress on an implicit account of justice in her work. Taking seriously Arendt’s articulation of freedom-manifesting and principled political action, I will show that a principle of justice guides political action based on political judgment that is affectively oriented to the world.

scholarly journals Participatory trouble: Towards an understanding of algorithmic structures on Facebook

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Berg
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Social Collective

Several studies have engaged in understanding how the internet and online platforms increase political engagement through various forms of online participation and leverage social collective action. This article advances this line of research by exploring how social network sites in general and Facebook in particular are fuelled by algorithms that affect and become entangled with social practices on these sites. The article is empirically grounded in an analysis of 66 self-reflexive diaries on Facebook use and studies algorithmic structures on Facebook by exploring how personalized social feeds affect the experienced relationship between self and others as well as the readiness to share information to a network of peers. In contrast to studies that position online platforms as strengthening participatory political action, this article argues that it is necessary to take into account how algorithmic structures affect interpersonal relationships and the experienced ability to engage in participatory practices.

scholarly journals ESCOLA E COMUNIDADE: PESQUISA E EXTENSÃO EM BUSCA DA CIDADANIA EMANCIPATÓRIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Leonardo Bis Santos ◽  
Antonio Donizetti Sgarbi
Keyword(s):  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
To Come ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Espirito Santo ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Parece não haver resistência de que a aproximação entre a comunidade escolar e a do bairro é desejável, contudo, esbarramos muitas vezes nas condições materiais e na apropriação do tempo na forma de prioridades. Neste relato de experiência apresentamos uma proposta de ensino, pesquisa, extensão e mobilização para ação em curso em um bairro periférico da cidade de Vitória/ES. As propostas relatadas são resultado de um esforço conjunto entre servidores de uma escola municipal, do Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo – IFES e de moradores do bairro Jesus de Nazareth, num esforço recíproco e constante na promoção da ressignificação social positiva. Aspectos teórico-metodológicos da obra de Paulo Freire – significação do outro – em debate com o conceito de reconhecimento social de Axel Honneth são basilares para a interpretação teórica dos aspectos empíricos – ação dos sujeitos – em busca da emancipação social dos agentes. Palavras-chave: Resistência Social, Emancipação Social, Educação Popular, Ensino em Periferias   School and community: research and extension in search of emancipatory citizenship Abstract: It seems there is no resistance to the fact that the approximation between the school community and the neighborhood is desirable. However, we usually tend to come across the material conditions and time appropriation as priorities. On this experience report, we show up an ongoing proposal of teaching, research, extension and social mobilization at a specific peripheral neighborhood in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil. The proposal described here are the result of a joint effort among the professionals of a municipal school, as well as the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo – IFES, and residents of the Jesus de Nazareth neighborhood. These three groups worked together in order to promote a positive social resignification. Theoretical and methodological aspects of Paulo Freire’s work – the signification of the other – in the debate with the concept of social recognition by Axel Honneth, are fundamental to the theoretical interpretation of the empirical aspects – subjects’ actions – searching the social emancipation of the agents. Keywords: Social Resistance, Social Emancipation, Popular Education, Teaching at Peripheral Neighborhoods   Escuela y comunidad: investigación y extensión en busca de la ciudadanía emancipadora Resumen: Parece que no hay resistencia de que la aproximación entre la comunidad escolar y la del barrio es deseable, sin embargo, chocamos muchas veces en las condiciones materiales y en la apropiación del tiempo en forma de prioridades. En este relato de experiencia presentamos una propuesta de enseñanza, investigación, extensión y movilización para la acción del curso en un barrio periférico de la ciudad de Vitória / ES. Las propuestas relatadas son el resultado de un esfuerzo conjunto entre servidores de una escuela municipal, del Instituto Federal de Espírito Santo - IFES y de habitantes del barrio Jesús de Nazareth, en un esfuerzo recíproco y constante en la promoción de la resignificación social positiva. Los aspectos teórico-metodológicos de la obra de Paulo Freire - significación del otro - en debate con el concepto de reconocimiento social de Axel Honneth, son fundamentales para la interpretación teórica de los aspectos empíricos - acción de los sujetos - en busca de la emancipación social de los agentes. Palabras-clave: Resistencia Social, Emancipación Social, Educación Popular, Enseñanza en Periferias

RECONHECIMENTO E AUTONOMIA NA TEORIA DA JUSTIÇA DE AXEL HONNETH

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (137) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
Denilson Luis Werle
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
Normative Reconstruction ◽  
Normative Foundations

O artigo pretende examinar a relação entre reconhecimento e autonomia na teoria da justiça de Axel Honneth construída a partir da reconstrução normativa das relações intersubjetivas de reconhecimento mútuo presentes nas práticas sociais e instituições políticas e jurídicas das sociedades modernas. Para entender tanto seus fundamentos normativos quanto para examinar suas possibilidades concretas de realização, a questão da justiça não deve ser formulada em termos meramente distributivos e alocativos, mas sim do ponto de vista da reconstrução de suas gramáticas implícitas nos conflitos sociais e políticos e sedimentadas na estrutura básica da sociedade. A justiça deve ser vista como um conceito relacional orientado para o diagnóstico crítico das relações de dominação social e política arbitrárias, tendo como objeto primário os diferentes contextos e práticas de socialização das pessoas e grupos, tendo em vista primeiramente as estruturas e relações intersubjetivas, e não os estados subjetivos ou supostamente objetivos de provisão de bens e de satisfação de necessidades.Abstract: The article aims to examine the relations between recognition and autonomy in Axel Honneth´s theory of justice. This theory is based on the normative reconstruction of the interpersonal relations of mutual recognition which are present in the social practices and political and legal institutions of modern societies. To understand its normative foundations as well as examine its practical possibilities of realization, the question of justice should not be made on purely distributive and allocative terms, but by reconstructing the “grammars” of justice, that are implicit in social and political practices and sedimented in the basic structure of society. Justice must be seen as a relational concept designed for the critical diagnosis of arbitrary relations of social and political domination. The primary subject of justice is the different contexts and practices of individual and group socialization. It should first bear in mind the structures and interpersonal relations and not the subjective or putatively objective states that provide goods and satisfy needs.

THE LIMITS OF ACTION IN MACHIAVELLI POLICY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAURICIO BUENO DA ROSA
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
Conception Of Man ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Historical Observation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Normative Perspective ◽  
Do So

Classical philosophers conceived the study of politics from a normative perspective. From this flowed the current understanding that political action should be guided by ethics. As a result, the primary goal of politics was to educate men, make them better, and guide them for good. Machiavelli does not share the conception of man left by Christian philosophy that this is a being impelled by nature to social life. According to Christian understanding, the individual was subordinate to the state, but its action was limited by the natural or moral law that transcends the state's own authority, constituting a superior office to which every member of the community can turn when temporal power goes against it. your rights. In contrast, for Machiavelli, man is a being driven by antisocial forces. According to the Florentine man has a tendency to act on selfish impulses for his own benefit. This natural tendency can be controlled by the use of religion, law, or coercion, for as he himself writes, man does good when he feels coerced to do so. For Machiavelli, the perversity of men is a finding of historical observation, men have always dominated each other, because desires and interests move them in opposite directions.

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