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6Why Settle for Hobbes's Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor?In Kevin S. Decker (ed.), Dune and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022-10-17.Hobbes would say that this level of apprehension is inevitable in any society that isn't governed by a sufficiently powerful central ruler. Just as in our world, some people or groups would have more power than others, and some of these might have more power than most. The Emperor would still be subject to the demands of the Spacing Guild, for example, while the Spacing Guild would still need to be on good terms with the governor of Arrakis because of the Guild's absolute dependence upon spice. …Read more
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12The Banality of EvilIn Jeffery L. Nicholas (ed.), The Expanse and Philosophy, Wiley. 2021-10-12.The eminent philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt once attended a similar trial with a similar plea: the 1961 trial of the mid‐level Nazi official Adolf Eichmann. She portrayed him as an exemplar of what she termed the banality of evil. After his capture in 1960, Eichmann was tried on charges including war crimes and crimes against humanity. Eichmann was an exemplary case of the thoughtlessness and lack of self‐reflection that goes into setting unthinkable atrocities into motion. Like…Read more
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Towards a Contractualist Theory of Transitional JusticeDissertation, Boston University. 2022.Transitional justice addresses legacies of social and political wrongdoing by coming to terms in some sense with the past and charting a path forward. In my dissertation, I introduce the complementary notion of ‘transitional ethics.’ Whereas transitional justice asks how we can dispense justice in the aftermath of widespread violence, transitional ethics asks how we can meet wider demands of morality in the aftermath of widespread violence. Although the formulation of the concept of transitional…Read more
Rebeccah Leiby
Elon University
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Elon UniversityAssistant Professor
APA Eastern Division
Greensboro, NC, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Value Theory |
Human Rights and Global Justice |