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This book draws connections and explores important questions at the intersection of the debates about relational autonomy and relational equality. Although these two research areas share several common assumptions and concerns, their connections have not been systematically explored. The essays in this volume address theoretical questions at the intersection of relational theories of autonomy and equality and also consider how these theoretical considerations play out in real-world contexts. Several chapters explore possible conceptual links between relational autonomy and equality by considering the role of values—such as agency, non-domination, and self-respect—to which both relational autonomy theorists and relational egalitarians are committed. Others reflect on how debates about autonomy and equality can clarify our thinking about oppression based on race and gender, and how such oppression affects interpersonal relationships. Autonomy and Equality: Relational Approaches is the first book to specifically address the relationship between these two research areas. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
Almost all women and men claim that gender equality within their relationships is the ideal. In practice, however, equality is not predominant within many couples and families. This book develops current debates about individualisation within families – particularly how partners understand and resolve tensions between the need for togetherness and personal autonomy, and how partners view and work with increasing gender equality. Individualism and Families is based on a large Swedish study from two of the foremost European experts on the sociology of the family. The study looks particularly at partnering, parenting, intimacy, commitments, attitudes to finances and gender divisions of labour.
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges of ensuring institutional, social and economic equality whilst respecting the competences of regions and the rights of groups.
This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard accounts, between autonomy and other aspects of the agent, including self-conception, self-worth, memory, and the imagination.
In recent years, common ownership has enjoyed unprecedented favour among policy-makers and citizens in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Conservation land trusts, affordable-housing co-operatives, community gardens, and neighborhood-managed parks are spreading throughout major cities. Normatively, these common-ownership regimes are seen as yielding a variety of benefits, such as a communitarian ethos in the efficient use of scarce resources, or greater freedom to interact and create in new ways. The design of common-ownership regimes, however, requires difficult trade-offs. Most importantly, successful achievement of the goals of common-ownership regimes requires the limitation of individual co-owners' ability to freely use the common resource, as well as to exit the common-ownership arrangement. This article makes two contributions. First, at the normative level, it argues that common ownership has the potential to help foster greater “equality of autonomy”. By Ň“equality of autonomy”, I mean more equitable access to the material and relational means that allow individuals to be autonomous. Second, at the level of design, this article argues that the difficult trade-offs of common-ownership regimes should be dealt with by grounding the commitment to equality of autonomy in the context of specific resources. In some cases, this resource-specific design helps to minimize or avoid difficult trade-offs. In hard cases, where trade-offs cannot be avoided, this article offers arguments for privileging greater equality of autonomy over full negative freedom.
Preface A true state of nature cannot be recognized by a philosophy that accommodates divine authority. Identifying a deity as the proprietor of natural law and sovereign to a person's unique property of self is to give value to an entity that is synonymous with the universe. Divinity does not exist within reality; rather, the supernatural seeks to contain reality as it evolves- like the arbitrary arrangement of letters that comprise a word attempt to contain an abstract meaning with definition. This work will investigate the ability for the static containment of universals by exploring the meanings of symbols such as language. I find it irresponsible to assign a place for faith amongst the natural laws as an original component of existing; with a skeptical approach, the original state of nature cannot be considered while theological discourse is accommodated. The assumption that principles are bestowed by God as natural is to posture the true state of nature from the onset; basing a state of nature upon an assumption of the supernatural is to found philosophies that cannot be substantiated nor sustained. Traditional philosophers such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes have proposed philosophical arguments that leave room for such supernatural authority, and I contend that the presumption of divine nature invalidates any conclusions made upon those artificial premises; only an authentic state of nature- one that only acknowledges core elements of reality- may be validated and valued. I have also incorporated more contemporary philosophers such as Rawls and Nozick in this work because they have introduced innovative thought experiments from which any perspective may be imagined: Robert Nozick's "Experience Machine" and John Rawls' "The Veil of Ignorance" are tools for considering philosophy based on a true and authentic state of nature, and it will bear out that philosophy is a skeptical science at its core. Negotiations of social contracts are a major consideration in this writing; the way that entities relate and are related to one-another in the universal context is a continuous theme that resurfaces in all facets of existence- both living and nonliving. I find it irresponsible to assume consent in any contract and equate the practice to rape and slavery; for instance, at the root of faith is the assumption that a governing deity accepts the charge to govern, and assumptions of power given or received through coercion or confiscation are not social contracts made on the basis of equality. Equality is the primary motivation for this work. The original and true state of nature affords each existent being a unique capacity that is acknowledged as an autonomous function: the soul, the self, or the mind. Humanity is an interactive species, and its moral premises respond to the relationships social contracts are forged from. There are basic principles to how beings relate naturally, and so morality is a consideration for the autonomous being as it exists amongst others, and those relationships are substantiated by the natural laws which make no accommodations for attractive or moral results; as a science, the skeptical philosophy of a true state of nature must remain as neutral as mathematical functions in order to responsibly construct an ethic that is worthwhile. I have made every effort to avert coercion and acquiescence that might discredit or corrupt the philosophy I present; only from a vantage of neutrality can the balance of nature and nurture be reconciled.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "More Than Merely Equal Consideration"? -- 2. Prescriptivity and Redundancy -- 3. Looking for a Range Property -- 4. Power and Scintillation -- 5. A Religious Basis for Equality? -- 6. The Profoundly Disabled as Our Human Equals -- Index
Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen Darwall Leading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethics An ideal semester-length course text certain to generate vigorous discussion
"This volume analyzes a group of Southeast Asian societies that have in common a mode of sociality that maximizes personal autonomy, political egalitarianism, and inclusive forms of social solidarity. Their members make their livings as nomadic hunter-gatherers, shifting cultivators, sea nomads, and peasants embedded in market economies. While political anarchy and radical equality appear in many societies as utopian ideals, these societies provide examples of actually existing, viable forms of "anarchy." This book documents the mechanisms that enable these societies to maintain their life-ways and suggests some moral and political lessons that those who appreciate them might apply to their own societies"--Back cover.