Reviews: Deleuze and memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma, along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense, Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, the Comfort of Things, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, Military Workfare: The Soldier and Social Citizenship in Canada, Bruno Latours Kollektive, the Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-570
Author(s):  
Arun Saldanha ◽  
Stephen Legg ◽  
Laurent de Sutter ◽  
Caitlin DeSilvey ◽  
Hannah Appel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Singular Memory

Liberdade e Direitos Humanos no Pensamento de Richard Price

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 119-145
Author(s):  
José Gomes André ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

This paper is concerned with the political philosophy of Richard Price, analysing the way this author has developed the concept of liberty and the problem of human rights. The theme of liberty will be interpreted in a double perspective: a) in a private dimension, that sets liberty in the inner side of the individual; b) in a public dimension, that places it in the domain of a manifest action of the individual. We will try to show how this double outlook of liberty is conceived under the optics of a necessary complementarity, since liberty, which is primarily understood as a feature of the subject taken as an individual, acquires only a full meaning when she becomes efective in a comunitary field, as a social and political expression. The concept of human rights will appear located in this analysis, being defined simultaneously as condition and expression of the human dignity and happiness, at the same time natural attributes of an individual that should be cultivated and public effectiveness that contributes to the development of society.

RESPONSIBLE CHOICES, DESERT-BASED LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY NEUROSCIENCE

2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
The Real ◽  
Brain States ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Sense Psychology

AbstractNeuroscience is commonly thought to challenge the basic way we think of ourselves in ordinary thought, morality, and the law. This paper: (1) describes the legal institutions challenged in this way by neuroscience, including in that description both the political philosophy such institutions enshrine and the common sense psychology they presuppose; (2) describes the three kinds of data produced by contemporary neuroscience that is thought to challenge these commonsense views of ourselves in morals and law; and (3) distinguishes four major and several minor kinds of challenges that that data can reasonably be interpreted to present. The major challenges are: first, the challenge of reductionism, that we are merely machines; second, the challenge of determinism, that we are caused to choose and act as we do by brain states that we do not control; third, the challenge of epiphenomenalism, that our choices do not cause our actions because our brains are the real cause of those actions; and fourth, the challenge of fallibilism, that we do not have direct access to those of our mental states that do cause our actions, nor are we infallible in such knowledge as we do have of them.

Moral Faith and the Legacy of John Lewis's Political Vision of “Good Trouble”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Terrence L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Moral Faith

Abstract The late congressman John Lewis spent most of his political life engaging Black Power's commitment to economic and political freedom through a political vocabulary that aligned with his deeply held beliefs in nonviolence, human rights activism, and moral faith. The tension between the Black radical left and establishment Black politics dates back to Lewis's clash with elite Black leaders over the content of his prepared address for the 1963 March on Washington. The address provides a glimpse into Lewis's complicated political legacy. The youngest speaker at the March, Lewis faced the daunting task of both representing the political philosophy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and meeting the expectations of established civil rights leaders. Negotiating the political interests of the organizers of the March alongside the demands of SNCC foreshadowed the congressman's political vocation: a lifetime of civil rights advocacy through a politics of respectability and Black Power's political philosophy of freedom and economic transformation. Lewis's political legacy is complicated; and yet, it was fueled by an unabashed commitment to Black freedom struggles, human rights activism, and racial reconciliation.

Thomas Paine’s democratic linguistic radicalism: a political philosophy of language?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carine Lounissi
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Man

Carine Lounissi’s premise in this chapter is that characterising Thomas Paine’s radicalism is a challenge, which she takes up by focusing on his “democratic style” as a way to make his ideas accessible to the common man. The author thus studies Paine’s “democratic style”, for which he was harshly criticised, as being part and parcel of his inherently republican and democratic radicalism. She argues that in his writings Paine sought to deconstruct the discourse of the political elite of his time, associated with the trappings of royalty, and promoted the language of common sense instead as an instrument of resistance predicated on the universality of human nature. He invented a radical linguistics whereby he wished to go back to the roots of words.

The Theological and the Political: A Philosophical Critique

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Graham
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Political ◽  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Theological Perspective

The aspiration to find a theological perspective from which to view political life is a very old one. The converse – seeking to view theology from a political perspective – is new. It is one indication, perhaps, of an important cultural reversal of religion and politics. In what, retrospectively, has come to be known as ‘Christendom’, people subjected political philosophies to the test of faithfulness to biblical truth because, they supposed, the ways of politics are, and should be, subservient to the ways of God. In the long shadow of the French Revolution, however, democratic consensus and human rights have become the touchstones by which religious practices, and even Christian doctrines, are commonly assessed and regulated. In short, the content of anything called a ‘Christian’ political philosophy is judged acceptable or unacceptable by secular standards.

‘Death to Tyrants’: The Political Philosophy of Tyrannicide—Part I

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon K. Brincat
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
Self Defence

This paper examines the conceptual development of the philosophical justifications for tyrannicide. It posits that the political philosophy of tyrannicide can be categorised into three distinct periods or models, the classical, medieval, and liberal, respectively. It argues that each model contained unique themes and principles that justified tyrannicide in that period; the classical, through the importance attached to public life and the functional role of leadership; the medieval, through natural law doctrine; and the liberal, through the postulates of social contract theory. Subsequent analysis of these different models however, reveals that these historical models are unable to provide a sufficient philosophical basis for a contemporary justification of tyrannicide. In Part II, it will be contended that a reinvigorated conception of self-defence, a theme common to all three models, when coupled with the modern notion of universal human rights, may provide the foundation for a contemporary theory of tyrannicide.

Introduction: Global Justice and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Megan Blomfield
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nonideal Theory ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

This chapter introduces climate change as a problem of natural resource justice by outlining some real-world examples of resource conflicts that are being generated, or exacerbated, by climate change. It then provides some necessary background for the discussion to follow. The science and predicted impacts of climate change are explained, along with the options for responding to this problem, such as mitigation and adaptation. The chapter then briefly introduces the debate about global justice and climate change, as it has appeared in the political philosophy literature, looking at the human rights approach, the distributive justice approach, and the key methodological distinctions between integrationism and isolationism and ideal versus nonideal theory. After providing further characterization of, and motivation for, the natural resources approach to climate justice that is taken in the work, it concludes with an outline of the chapters to follow.

WRITING ABOUT CONFLICT IN AFRICA: STAKES AND STRATEGIES

Africa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike McGovern
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Conflict In Africa ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Writing about conflict in Africa is a tricky thing. Publications from non-governmental organizations and human rights campaigners often read as if they were calibrated to maximize public distress, and thus the political or financial support that would keep human rights institutions in business. Many journalistic accounts are stitched together from the rhetorical and analytical remnants of a colonial and sometimes racist common sense. Against this backdrop, fine-grained empirical studies like those typically produced by anthropologists, historians and geographers take on a particular salience. They stake out a privileged space for explaining other logics, other incentives, and different causal relations that could make sense out of wars, insurgencies and other forms of violence that appear irrational to Europeans and North Americans.

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