On the Nature and Significance of Political Respect
On the Nature and Significance of Political Respect
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152039
- ISBN
- 9798384016489
- DDC
- 100
- 서명/저자
- On the Nature and Significance of Political Respect
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 139 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Ebels-Duggan, Kyla.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The concept of "political respect" is commonly employed within political theorizing, especially within the history of liberal thought. Even so, there is, at present, no consensus among liberal theorists concerning what political respect consists of, how it relates to other normative and psychological notions (such as self-respect), and what political and social conditions support its emergence and persistence. This essay attempts to illuminate these and other related issues by providing a generalized conceptual framework within which we can more accurately understand the kinds of relations that constitute political respect and how to reason more effectively about them.With this goal in mind, this dissertation proceeds in five main stages. Stage one identifies and motivates a dominant view within contemporary liberalism that I call thin liberalism: the view that governmental policies are justified if and only if they bring about a state of affairs in which the negative liberties of all individuals are respected. I outline multiple objections to this variety of liberalism and conclude that its failure indicates several ways forward for the development of alternative versions of liberal theory (Chapter 1).Stage two discusses and evaluates the viability of egalitarian liberalism: a family of political views, each of which emphasizes the importance of considerations of equality within our political reasoning. I discuss an objection often leveled against egalitarian liberalism that I call the problem of the private sphere and conclude that while the objection successfully undermines some versions of egalitarian liberalism, it does not undermine all of them. If egalitarian liberalism is supplemented with a concept that I call "the commons," it acquires the argumentative resources necessary to address the objection adequately (Chapter 2).In stage three, I develop and distinguish my preferred version of liberalism, which I call respect-forward liberalism, from its theoretical competitors. Political respect, I argue, should be understood as consisting of the relations represented within my proposed respect framework. After advancing and illustrating the theoretical value of this framework, I enumerate the theses that I take to constitute the respect-forward liberal view and explain why they should be accepted (Chapter 3).With my positive view concerning the nature of political respect presented, stage four consists of evaluating its relationship to contemporary debates about how the state should conceive of citizens. I accomplish this by discussing the capabilities approach and a criticism that its proponents have leveled against distributive justice liberalism that I call the opacity objection. The capabilities approach, I argue, identifies some important considerations that a theory of political respect ought to be receptive to, but it is not, by itself, capable of recognizing all the relations about which political respect can be present or absent. The insights of the capabilities approach, however, can be subsumed within my proposed respect framework and the theory of respect-forward liberalism. Doing this, I argue, results in a complete theoretical framework within which to conduct our future political reasoning (Chapter 4).Finally, in stage five, I conclude with some brief thoughts concerning the current state of political discourse and how the ideas discussed in the preceding chapters can both assist us in diagnosing precise why so many current political discussions become unproductive as well as provide guidance about how they can be improved going forward (Conclusion).
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy
- 일반주제명
- Ethics
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 키워드
- Equality
- 키워드
- Liberalism
- 키워드
- Liberty
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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