Morality, politics, and law: a bicentennial essay

This article explores the contribution of Jürgen Habermas’ discourse theory of morality, politics, and law to theorizing educational justice. First, it analyzes Christopher Martin’s discourse-ethical argument that the development of citizens’ discursive agency is required on epistemic grounds. The article criticizes this argument and claims that the moral importance of developing discursive agency should be justified instead on the basis of moral grounds. Second, the article examines Harvey Siegel’s critique of Habermas’ moral epistemology and suggests that Siegel neglects that the epistemic justification of moral claims proceeds differently from the epistemic justification of assertoric claims. Finally, the article presents a discourse-theoretic conception of educational justice that defends the importance of discursively justifying norms of educational justice through properly arranged structures of justification.

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Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England

10.1057/9780230597662 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Renaissance England ◽

Politics And Law

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Civil Jurisdiction, Settler Politics, and the Colonial Constitution, circa 1840-58

Victoria University of Wellington Law Review ◽

10.26686/vuwlr.v39i3.5473 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 497 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Damen Ward

Keyword(s):

Lower Court ◽

Parliamentary Debates ◽

Early Colonial ◽

Responsible Government ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Competing Ideas ◽

Politics And Law ◽

The Relationship ◽

Institutional Relationships

In early colonial politics, decisions about lower court jurisdiction often reflected competing ideas about the relationship between different parts and functions of government. In particular, court structure and jurisdiction could be seen as having important implications for the role and power of the governor. Appreciating the importance of jurisdiction as a way of defining, and arguing about, the distribution and exercise of political and legal authority in the colonial constitution allows connections to be drawn between different elements of settler politics in the 1840s and 1850s. The closing of the Court of Requests by Governor Grey in 1848, and the decisions of the Supreme Court judges in subsequent litigation, provide examples of this. Debate over the role of the governor in emerging systems of representative and responsible government after 1852 contributed to lower court jurisdiction remaining politically significant, particularly in relation to Māori. This is shown by considering parliamentary debates about the Stafford ministry's 1858 proposals for resident magistrates' jurisdiction over "native districts". The politics of jurisdiction were part of wider contests about the establishment and consolidation of particular political and institutional relationships within the colonial constitution. This multi-faceted construction of government authority suggests a need to reconsider elements of Pākehā colonial politics and law.

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ECONOMICS, POLITICS, LAW: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS June 2019: сб.науч.тр./ OEAPS Inc.; редкол.: Флора Бертран (отв.ред.) [и др.]. - Берлин, Германия : OEAPS Inc., 06. 2019. - 71 С.

10.31219/osf.io/94p8r ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Inc. OEAPS

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Business Law ◽

Mathematical Methods ◽

Business Economics ◽

Section 8 ◽

Municipal Law ◽

Politics And Law ◽

Monetary Circulation ◽

Comparative Nature

The conference is a major international forum for analyzing and discussing trends and approaches in research in the field of economics, politics and law. We provide a platform for discussions on innovative, theoretical and empirical studies of problems in these disciplines. Given the international focus, materials of a comparative nature are especially welcomed.Doctors and candidates of science, scientists, specialists of various profiles and directions, applicants for academic degrees, teachers, graduate students, undergraduates and students are invited to participate in the conference.CONFERENCE SECTIONSSection 1 Finance, monetary circulation and credit Section 2 Accounting and taxation Section 3 Management and marketing Section 4 World economy Section 5 Business economics Section 6 Mathematical methods of economics Section 7 Relevant economic issues Section 8 Constitutional and municipal law Section 9 Civil and family law Section 10 Labor and business law section 11 Criminal law and criminology section 12 International law Section 13 entitled Administrative Section 14 law enforcement Section 15 Topical issues of jurisprudence Section 16 Topical issues in political science.Additional criteria considered in the consideration of the submitted document are its accuracy, organization / presentation (ie logical flow) and recording quality.

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Muslims, Islamic Law, and the Sociopolitical Reality in the United States

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v17i2.2060 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 1-28

Author(s):

Sherman A. Jackson

Keyword(s):

Islamic Law ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Double Consciousness ◽

American Muslims ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Subjective Responses ◽

Self Image ◽

The One ◽

Politics And Law

Native born African-American Muslims and the Immigrant Muslimcommunity foxms two important groups within the American Muslimcommunity. Whereas the sociopolitical reality is objectively the samefor both groups, their subjective responses are quite different. Both arevulnerable to a “double Consciousness,” i.e., an independently subjectiveconsciousness, as well as seeing oneself through the eyes of theother, thus reducing one’s self-image to an object of other’s contempt.Between the confines of culture, politics, and law on the one hand andthe “Islam as a way of life” on the other, Muslims must express theircultural genius and consciously discover linkages within the diverseMuslim community to avoid the threat of double consciousness.

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