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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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, 2015 The use of nonviolent action is on the rise. From the Occupy Movement to the Arab Spring and mass protests on the streets of Brazil, activists across the world are increasingly using unarmed tactics to challenge oppressive, corrupt and unjust systems ...
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Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018 This essay develops a theory of public dialogue and deliberation as agonistic resistance to authoritarian governance.Where authoritarian regimes value strict obedience to authority at the expense of freedom, deliberative democracy is predicated on the ...
Anna Wolfe
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Nonviolence in the European Parliament : a missed opportunity? [PDF]
Published online: February 2025This paper explores the potential of nonviolence that the European Parliament (EP) has not yet utilised. The European Union (EU) demonstrates a variety of affinities with nonviolence in its principles and practices ...
DELIS, Amy Dominika Maria
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Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The submission of rap lyrics as inculpatory evidence (Rap on Trial) is an active prosecution tactic deployed in United States criminal trials. In this paper, I argue that interpretive ambiguity in rap lyrics is exploited in Rap on Trial cases, constituting a novel form of discursive injustice: extractive discursive injustice.
K. M. Crandall
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Sumud Freedom Camp: Levinas’ Face-to-Face in Praxis
Religions, 2019 In Levinas’s thought, the subject emerges and is founded in relationship with the other, in the face-to-face. In response to other’s summons, the call to respond with discourse, not violence to the vulnerable face of another person, the ...
Robin Podolsky
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What Now? Military Peace Activism in the Wake of the Vietnam War
Peace &Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article defines military peace activism as peace activism related to military manpower policy and military personnel, including active, reserve, potential, and former servicemembers. It argues that when the US war in Vietnam and the draft that supported it ended, antiwar activists who worked with GIs had to reframe their work, as the ...
Amy J. Rutenberg
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Educational Pacifism and Montessori
Journal of Montessori ResearchEducational theory and practice is dominated by mass formal schooling systems, which routinely and unjustly harm many students. I call this stance “educational pacifism,” and in this paper argue that Montessorians ought to be educational pacifists. That
Nicholas Parkin
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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