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This book examines the significance of Kant's political philosophy
in the context of contemporary philosophical and political debates.
In the last few decades, Kantian specialists have increasingly
manifested a purely exegetic and philological interest in Kant's
oeuvre, while contemporary philosophers and scientists tend to use
Kant with scant hermeneutical care, thus misrepresenting or
misunderstanding his positions. This volume countervails these
tendencies by focusing more on specific themes of contemporary
relevance in Kant's writings. It looks to Kant's political thought
for insight on tackling issues such as freedom of speech, democracy
and populism, intergenerational justice, economic inequality,
money, poverty, international justice and gender/feminism.
Featuring readings by well-known Kant specialists and emerging
scholars with unorthodox approaches to Kant's philosophy, the
volume fills a significant gap in the existing scholarship on the
philosopher and his works. It will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of philosophy, politics and ethics.
This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in
contemporary philosophical debates. It argues that Kant's
philosophy can still serve as a guide to navigate the turbulence of
a globalized world in which we are faced by an imprescriptible
social reality wherein moral values and ethical life models are
becoming increasingly unstable. The volume draws on Kantian ethics
to discuss various contemporary issues, including sustainable
development, moral enhancement, sexism, and racism. It also tackles
general concepts of practical philosophy such as lying, the
different kinds of moral duties, and the kind of motivation one
needs for doing what we consider the right thing. Featuring
readings by well-known Kant specialists and emerging scholars with
unorthodox approaches to Kant's philosophy, the volume will be of
great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, politics
and ethics. It will also appeal to moral theorists, applied
ethicists and environmental theorists.
This book examines Kant's contributions to the theory of knowledge
and studies how his writings can be applied to address contemporary
epistemological issues. The volume delves into the Kantian ideas of
transcendental idealism, space, naturalism, epistemic normativity,
communication, and systematic unity. The essays in the volume study
Kant's theories from a fresh perspective and offer new arguments
for assenting that knowledge cannot account for itself without
acknowledging the fundamental role of the cognitive subject. In
doing so, they suggest that we reconsider Kant's views as a
powerful alternative to naturalism. Featuring readings by
well-known Kant specialists and emerging scholars with unorthodox
approaches to Kant's philosophy, the volume fills a significant gap
in the existing scholarship on the philosopher and his works. It
will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of knowledge,
philosophy, and epistemology.
This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest
antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa
Familia Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian
president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Familia has been for a
time the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world,
serving more than 50 million Brazilians who had a monthly per
capita income of less than USD 50. The program is regarded as one
of the key factors behind the significant poverty reduction Brazil
experienced during the first decade of the 21st century. Bolsa
Familia is neither a credit scheme nor a loan. It is a program of
civic inclusion: it aims to help citizens meet their most basic
needs and sometimes just to survive. Its goal is to create
citizenship, not to merely train the entrepreneurial spirit. Having
this in mind, the authors of this book spent five years (2006-2011)
interviewing more than 150 women registered in the program to see
how the cash transfers impacted their everyday lives. The authors
concluded that the program produces significant social impacts in
the beneficiaries' lives by increasing their levels of moral,
economic and political autonomy, promoting citizenship. Money,
Autonomy and Citizenship - The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa
Familia will be of interest to both academic researchers and public
agents involved with the study, development and implementation of
public policies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting social
justice.
This book discusses the potential for Kant's political and
juridical philosophy to shed light on current social challenges and
policy. By considering Kant as a contemporary and not above moral
responsibility, the authors explore his political theory as the
philosophical foundation of human rights, discussing the right to
citizenship, social dynamics and the scope of global justice.
Focusing on topics such as society, Kant's position on human
rights, domestic economic justice, public education and moral
virtue, the authors analyse the shortcomings of Kant's modes of
thought and help the reader to gain new perspective both on this
classical thinker and on more contemporary issues.
This book discusses the potential for Kant's political and
juridical philosophy to shed light on current social challenges and
policy. By considering Kant as a contemporary and not above moral
responsibility, the authors explore his political theory as the
philosophical foundation of human rights, discussing the right to
citizenship, social dynamics and the scope of global justice.
Focusing on topics such as society, Kant's position on human
rights, domestic economic justice, public education and moral
virtue, the authors analyse the shortcomings of Kant's modes of
thought and help the reader to gain new perspective both on this
classical thinker and on more contemporary issues.
This book analyzes the impacts on peoples' lives of the largest
antipoverty social program in the world: the Brazilian Bolsa
Familia Program. Created by the government of former Brazilian
president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsa Familia has been for a
time the largest conditional cash transfer program in the world,
serving more than 50 million Brazilians who had a monthly per
capita income of less than USD 50. The program is regarded as one
of the key factors behind the significant poverty reduction Brazil
experienced during the first decade of the 21st century. Bolsa
Familia is neither a credit scheme nor a loan. It is a program of
civic inclusion: it aims to help citizens meet their most basic
needs and sometimes just to survive. Its goal is to create
citizenship, not to merely train the entrepreneurial spirit. Having
this in mind, the authors of this book spent five years (2006-2011)
interviewing more than 150 women registered in the program to see
how the cash transfers impacted their everyday lives. The authors
concluded that the program produces significant social impacts in
the beneficiaries' lives by increasing their levels of moral,
economic and political autonomy, promoting citizenship. Money,
Autonomy and Citizenship - The Experience of the Brazilian Bolsa
Familia will be of interest to both academic researchers and public
agents involved with the study, development and implementation of
public policies aimed at reducing poverty and promoting social
justice.
Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and
Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the
critical and political commitment of various Latin American and
Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global
“stealth revolution” in recent decades, where neoliberalism has
forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system
devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the
shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies
to build new conceptions of the public and the common through
mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in
Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and
weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited
by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side
of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance
and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions
of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our
goal of creating a radically democratic world.
In Alessandro Pinzanis Arbeit wird das Denken der Philosophen
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau und Kant als Basis genommen, um die
Reflexion uber die Beziehung von Individuum und Staat neu zu
beleben. Nachgewiesen wird, dass die Positionen dieser Philosophen
zugleich vier Denktraditionen entsprechen, die eine vierfache
Wurzel moderner Demokratien bilden: Republikanismus, Liberalismus,
radikale Demokratie und Konstitutionalismus. Sowohl der Bezug auf
klassische Denker wie auch die Entgegensetzung der benannten
Traditionen modernen politischen Denkens sind allerdings
problematisch. Der Autor zeigt, dass gerade die Benutzung
vergangener Autoren und schemenhaft definierter Denktraditionen
viele der Schwierigkeiten verursacht, die beim Versuch entstehen,
die aktuellen Probleme unserer Demokratien zu begreifen, geschweige
denn, zu losen. Nach der sowohl ideengeschichtlichen als auch
systematischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Konzeptionen der
Klassiker politischer Philosophie wird im Buch die aktuelle Debatte
uber die Notwendigkeit politischer Tugenden bzw. der Annahme einer
bestimmten politischen Haltung seitens der Burger gegenwartiger
Demokratien vorgestellt."
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