Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective

Pettit, Philip

doi:10.1093/clp/cus016

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“…Its investigation does not need any (currently impossible) detailed empirical and/or technical information. Other political properties concur to increase the feasibility of SG; with regards to the morality soft constraints, for instance, they include the ideals (Pettit, ) of legitimacy and procedural justice, as shown in the last Section.…”

Section: Feasibilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Sulfur in the Sky with Diamonds: An Inquiry into the Feasibility of Solar Geoengineering

Grasso

2019

Global Policy

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Solar geoengineering (SG) is considered a promising, albeit controversial, climate engineering technology to help reduce predicted global warming. However, the complexity of SG raises serious doubts about its political practicability. The objective of this article is to investigate this technology's feasibility, a fundamental dimension of said practicability. Feasibility is here understood as a political property: the higher the feasibility of a state of affairs ranks, the greater its eventual political practicability. According to this perspective, the less SG clashes with economic, institutional, and moral soft constraints, the more feasible it becomes, and hence the greater its political practicability. An analysis of economic and institutional soft constraints points to a high degree of SG feasibility. This feasibility is, however, limited by the perceived non‐bearable moral costs which SG involves. Given the greater weight of moral soft constraints, SG's overall feasibility is therefore low. Based on these indications, the article offers suggestions for lessening SG's friction with soft constraints, especially with the highly sensitive moral ones, with the aim of increasing this technology's feasibility. On the basis of this heightened feasibility, the paper concludes with policy recommendations which improves the practicability of SG.

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Section: Feasibilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Sulfur in the Sky with Diamonds: An Inquiry into the Feasibility of Solar Geoengineering

Grasso

2019

Global Policy

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“…Secondly, honesty and transparency about such policies are minimal, necessary conditions for the legitimacy of health institutions. A social or political institution is legitimate if it is acceptable or justifiable or desirable 35 in the eyes of the people who participate in that institution. The general idea is that when an institution is legitimate, those who interact with it can accept or endorse the way that the institution treats them.…”

Section: Transparency Legitimacy and Social Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adversaries at the Bedside: Advance Care Plans and Future Welfare

Kestigian

London

2016

Bioethics

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Advance care planning refers to the process of determining how one wants to be cared for in the event that one is no longer competent to make one's own medical decisions. Some have argued that advance care plans often fail to be normatively binding on caretakers because those plans do not reflect the interests of patients once they enter an incompetent state. In this article, we argue that when the core medical ethical principles of respect for patient autonomy, honest and adequate disclosure of information, institutional transparency, and concern for patient welfare are upheld, a policy that would allow for the disregard of advance care plans is self-defeating. This is because when the four principles are upheld, a patient's willingness to undergo treatment depends critically on the willingness of her caretakers to honor the wishes she has outlined in her advance care plan. A patient who fears that her caretakers will not honor her wishes may choose to avoid medical care so as to limit the influence of her caretakers in the future, which may lead to worse medical outcomes than if she had undergone care. In order to avoid worse medical outcomes and uphold the four core principles, caregivers who are concerned about the future welfare of their patients should focus on improving advance care planning and commit to honoring their patients' advance care plans.

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“…Against individual freedom as non-interference, they offer the concept of political freedom as non-domination and non-arbitration. (Viroli, 2002;Pettit, 2012). People are free, according to republican conception, when no one has the capacity to dominate and interfere arbitrary sway over them.…”

Section: New Perspectives On Freedom Equality and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty . Pettit (1995Pettit ( , 1996Pettit ( , 2003Pettit ( , 2006Pettit ( , 2012; Q. Skinner (1998); P. Rosanvallon ( 2000Rosanvallon ( , 2004Rosanvallon ( and 2006 and C. Mouffe (1992) 21. Two examples of not being politicaly free and exposed to the domination of others may be given as: An unskilled worker due to her limited employment prospects, is vulnerable to her employer's illicit treatment; Citizens of an oppressive regime where those in power are allowed to commit violations of even the most fundamental human rights without fear of any legal accountability for their actions.…”

Section: End Notesmentioning

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A New Social Contract: Rethinking the Role of the State Towards Post- 2015 Development Agenda

Pirili¹,

Pirili²

2015

eab

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As the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals ends in 2015 a broad consultative process headed by UN is being conducted all around the world in order to formulate new goals/targets within the broader framework of sustainable human development. The main argument of this paper is founded on the major fault line in neoliberal thinking with its belief in self regulating markets and its anti-state rhetoric whose harmful consequences have been exposed by the current economic crisis. We argue that there is a need for reconsidering the potential for the role of the modern State which is adapted to the challenges of the 21st century. We suggest that the concept of social contract in discussing the role of the State may be very helpful as it broadens the concern for development beyond the State versus Economy dichotomy. The essence of any social contract is a consensus among the members of a society with regards the regulation of collective life which is grounded upon the utmost values. As such it legitimizes the roles of the State in promoting these goals, and also the structures of interaction between the State and the civil society. Therefore we argue that, the concept of social contract may provide a basic framework into the post-Millenium debates which seek to construct a new global development agenda based upon globally agreed values and goals.

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Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective

Cited by 29 publications

References 2 publications

Sulfur in the Sky with Diamonds: An Inquiry into the Feasibility of Solar Geoengineering

Sulfur in the Sky with Diamonds: An Inquiry into the Feasibility of Solar Geoengineering

Adversaries at the Bedside: Advance Care Plans and Future Welfare

A New Social Contract: Rethinking the Role of the State Towards Post- 2015 Development Agenda

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