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Moral Universalism and Cultural DifferenceIn John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.This article examines the relationship between moral universalism and cultural difference. It analyses the problem of how to measure the claims of particular cultures against the demands of universal morality and discusses possible ways to resolve the tension between cultural minorities and the intrusion of the morality of Western liberalism. One prominent solution to this problem attempts to resolve it by identifying special rights to be accorded to cultural groups to enable them to hold on to …Read more
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151Social Contract Theory.Political Argument: A Reissue with a New Introduction.Rawls: `A Theory of Justice' and its Critics.Contemporary Political Philosophy: An IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (168): 375-378. 1992.
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Are there any cultural rights?In Julia Stapleton (ed.), Group rights: perspectives since 1900, Thoemmes Press. 1995.
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8LibertyIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 1996.Such is the rhetorical appeal of the idea of liberty that a variety of political philosophies claim to honour it. Republicans and Marxists, no less than libertarians and liberals, maintain that they and they alone are the true defenders of freedom. The literature of contemporary political theory is thus replete with rival analyses of the meaning of liberty, and disputes about its measurement, distribution and institutional requirements. Our aim here is to gain some understanding of the meaning a…Read more
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9Exit, Freedom and GenderIn Annamari Vitikainen & Dagmar Borchers (eds.), On Exit: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the right of exit in liberal multicultural societies, De Gruyter. pp. 34-56. 2012.
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14´Kevin Vallier' Trust in a Polarized AgeCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (4): 601-607. 2023.Vallier offers a defence of liberalism that is publicly justified as an answer to political polarization. This critique argues that the philosophical solution he offers – a version of liberalism more likely to be endorsed by moderately idealized agents – may not succeed because the source of polarization lies elsewhere: in resentments arising out of changed social conditions and the alienation of parts of society unhappy with the very liberal narrative in question.
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The Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Love and Freedom in the Thought of KartiniIn Debra Satz & Rob Reich (eds.), Toward a humanist justice : the political philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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38Libertarianism without self-ownershipSocial Philosophy and Policy 36 (2): 71-93. 2019.:Libertarianism is a political philosophy whose defenders have set its foundations in the principle of self-ownership. But self-ownership supplies an uncertain basis for such a theory as it is prone to a number of serious difficulties, some of which have been addressed by libertarians but none of which can ultimately be overcome. For libertarianism to be a plausible way of looking at the world, it must look elsewhere for its basic principles. In particular, it needs to rethink the way it underst…Read more
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35JusticitisIn Manuel Knoll, Stephen Snyder & Nurdane Şimşek (eds.), New Perspectives on Distributive Justice: Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem of Consensus, De Gruyter. pp. 187-204. 2018.
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90Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Political CommunitySocial Philosophy and Policy 13 (1): 80. 1996.The primary concern of this essay is with the question “What is a political community?” This question is important in its own right. Arguably, the main purpose of political philosophy is to provide an account of the nature of political association and, in so doing, to describe the relations that hold between the individual and the state. The question is also important, however, because of its centrality in contemporary debate about liberalism and community
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5ImmigrationIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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95Equality and diversityPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (2): 185-212. 2002.The foundations of human inequality lie in the fact of human diversity, or in the human tendency to differentiate from some while associating with others to form groups. The diversity which results from association and differentiation makes equality unattainable. Diversity and equality are incompatible, and attempts to promote one can only be made at the expense of the other. In these circumstances, we should abandon the ideal of equality as incapable of offering us an adequate understanding of …Read more
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32Two Constructions of LibertarianismLibertarian Papers 1 11. 2009.The libertarian first principle—a belief in individual freedom—can lead to two different and not necessarily acceptable societies from the standpoint of liberty. One is the “Union of Liberty,” in which communities, associations, and intermediate bodies are held to rigorous standards of voluntariness . In the other, the “Federation of Liberty,” they are not .While in any free society individuals may voluntarily join together and waive some of their rights , hard questions arise when nonconsenting…Read more
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17Critical Exchange on the 2010 Nobel Peace PrizeContemporary Political Theory 11 (2): 229-240. 2012.
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45Postcolonialism and political theoryContemporary Political Theory 8 (3): 363-365. 2009.Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity …Read more
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48Survey Article: Multiculturalism as Fairness: Will Kymlicka's Multicultural CitizenshipJournal of Political Philosophy 5 (4): 406-427. 1997.
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169Are Refugees Special?In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press Uk. 2016.
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75One Cheer for Constantinople: A Comment on Pettit and Skinner on Hobbes and FreedomHobbes Studies 22 (2): 192-198. 2009.Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner find Hobbes's understanding of freedom as non-interference inadequate because it fails to appreciate what is wrong with a life lived as a slave. Though their critiques have some force, however, Hobbes's view of freedom has virtues of its own. It is highly sensitive to the fact that freedom is a matter of degree. It is also unlikely to mistake freedom for something else, like security or dignity. Moreover, Hobbes is not as unmindful of the dangers of servility as…Read more
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14Islam, Democracy and Civil SocietyJournal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 13 (2). 2003.The purpose of this article, more particularly, is to explore the place of Islam in the modern world-a world which contemporary writers increasingly try to understand by invoking the notions of democracy and civil society.For many, then, Islam stands in a relationship of tension with - if not complete antagonism to - democracy and modernity. It is a religion, and a philosophy, which is a throwback to the middle ages, and an obstacle to human progress.The concern of this essay is to argue that Is…Read more
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40Explaining Moral VarietySocial Philosophy and Policy 11 (1): 1-21. 1994.Reflection on the variety of forms of social life has long been a source of moral skepticism. The thought that there are many radically different social systems, each of which colors the way its members think about moral and political questions, has been thought by many moral philosophers to undermine confidence in our belief that our way of looking at-or even posing-these questions is the correct one. The fact of cultural variety is held to reduce, if not eliminate altogether, the possibility o…Read more
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The Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Love and Freedom in the Thought of KartiniIn Debra Satz & Rob Reich (eds.), Toward a humanist justice : the political philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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27Conservatism, liberalism and ideology∗Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 1 (3): 30-44. 1987.Conservatism: Dream And Reality by Robert Nisbet Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 118pp., $9.95 LIBERALISM by John Gray Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 106pp., $9.95 IDEOLOGY by David McLellan Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. 99pp., $9?95
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133Rawls: ‘A Theory of Justice' and its CriticsStanford University Press. 1990.1 A New Departure 'No commanding work of political theory has appeared in the 20th century.' So said Isaiah Berlin, writing in 1962 . ...
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19Liberal ArchipelagoOxford University Press UK. 2003.In his major new work Chandran Kukathas offers, for the first time, a book-length treatment of this controversial and influential theory of minority rights. The author argues that the free society should not be seen as a hierarchy of superior and subordinate authorities but an archipelago of competing and overlapping jurisdictions.The idea of a liberal archipelago is defended as one which supplies us with a better metaphor of the free society than do older notions such as the body politic, or th…Read more
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