81.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 2
Brian McElwee
The Appeal of Self-Ownership
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In this paper, I argue that the appeal of a principle of self-ownership is grounded in the specially intimate relationship that each of us has with our body. I argue that once we appreciate the source of the appeal of a claim of self-ownership, we can see how a differently shaped set of strong rights over our body can do justice to the considerations that ground this appeal, without committing us to the most controversial implications of a claim of self-ownership.
|
|
|
82.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Michael Bacon
Breaking Up is Hard to Do:
John Gray’s Complicated Relationship with the Liberal Project
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
This paper examines the issue that has taken center stage in the writings of John Gray, the bankruptcy of the Enlightenment project and its implications for liberal political theory. The paper outlines Gray’s critique, showing that elements of his argument against what he calls “the liberal project” apply equally to his own value-pluralist position. It suggests that Gray equivocates between rejecting the Enlightenment liberal project and offering a value-pluralist version of that project because of a fear of moral relativism, a fear that, it is argued, is misplaced.
|
|
|
83.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Stefan Rummens
The Semantic Potential of Religious Arguments:
A Deliberative Model of the Postsecular Public Sphere
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
This paper introduces a distinction between three different kinds of religious arguments. On the basis of a deliberative model of democracy, it is argued that autonomy and identity arguments should be acceptable in public debate, whereas authority arguments should be rejected. This deliberative approach is clarified by comparing it with the exclusionist position of John Rawls on the one hand and the inclusionist position of Nicholas Wolterstorff on the other. The paper concludes with some general remarks about the relation between reason and religion that explain the sense in which a postsecular public sphere also remains a secular one.
|
|
|
84.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Danny Scoccia
Physician-Assisted Suicide, Disability, and Paternalism
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Some disability rights (DR) advocates oppose physician-assisted suicide (PAS) laws like Oregon’s on the grounds that they reflect ableist prejudice: how else can their limit on PAS eligibility to the terminally ill be explained? The paper answers this DR objection. It concedes that the limit in question cannot be defended on soft paternalist grounds, and offers a hard paternalist defense of it. The DR objection makes two mistakes: it overlooks the possibility of a hard paternalist defense of the limit, and it confuses terminal illness, which is at best one type of disability, with disability itself.
|
|
|
85.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Sonya Charles
How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond to the Problem of Internalized Oppression?
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In “Autonomy and the Feminist Intuition,” Natalie Stoljar asks whether a procedural or a substantive approach to autonomy is best for addressing feminist concerns. In this paper, I build on Stoljar’s argument that feminists should adopt a strong substantive approach to autonomy. After briefly reviewing the problems with a purely procedural approach, I begin to articulate my own strong substantive theory by focusing specifically on the problem of internalized oppression. In the final section, I briefly address some of the concerns raised by procedural theorists who are leery of a substantive approach.
|
|
|
86.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Michael Huemer
Is There a Right to Immigrate?
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Immigration restrictions violate the prima facie right of potential immigrants not to be subject to harmful coercion. This prima facie right is not neutralized or outweighed by the economic, fiscal, or cultural effects of immigration, nor by the state’s special duties to its own citizens, or to its poorest citizens. Nor does the state have a right to control citizenship conditions in the same way that private clubs may control their membership conditions.
|
|
|
87.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
36 >
Issue: 3
Norvin Richards
Lives No One Should Have To Live
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
Prospective parents centainly ought to avoid creating a child whose life would be so terrible that no one should have to live it. However, those who sought to avoid it would risk making a serious moral error, if their reasoning did follow a certain pattern.The error would be failure to respect autonomy, which includes a claim to judge for oneself whether one's life is worth living. I explain how this applies to a decision about whether someone is to exist at all, and what difference it would make if prospective parents paid autonomy the respect it merits.
|
|
|
88.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 2
William Nelson
Equal Opportunity
|
|
|
89.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 2
Kelly A. Oliver
Woman as Truth in Nietzsche’s Writing
|
|
|
90.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 2
James L. Hudson
The Ethics of Immigration Restriction
|
|
|
91.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 2
Douglas N. Husak
Why There Are No Human Rights
|
|
|
92.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 2
Michael Davis
Is the Death Penalty Irrevocable?
|
|
|
93.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Heinz C. Luegenbiehl
1984 and the Power of Technology
|
|
|
94.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
James R. Bennett
Oceania and the United States in 1984:
The Selling of the Soviet Threat
|
|
|
95.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Mike W. Martin
Demystifying Doublethink:
Self-Deception, Truth, and Freedom in 1984
|
|
|
96.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Cordell Strug
‘Metaphysics Is Not Your Strong Point’:
Orwell and Those Who Speak for Civilization
|
|
|
97.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Steven Blakemore
Language and Ideology in Orwell's 1984
|
|
|
98.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Gorman Beauchamp
Big Brother in America
|
|
|
99.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Roger Paden
Surveillance and Torture:
Foucault and Orwell on the Methods of Discipline
|
|
|
100.
|
Social Theory and Practice:
Volume >
10 >
Issue: 3
Patricia Hill
Religion and Myth in Orwell's 1984
|
|
|