A moral theory of solidarity /
This volume analyses important debates about political responsibility, conscience, loyalty, collective action, moral agency, and the individual in society. Through these debates the volume advances a novel theory of solidarity and provides a major original contribution to a field of growing interest...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; A Moral Theory of Solidarity; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword and Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. "SHALLOW UNDERSTANDING FROM PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL"; 2. SOLIDARITY ITSELF; 3. OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; 1: Politics and the Limits of Conscience; 1.1 CONSCIENCE IN CONQUEST; 1.2 UNDERSTANDING VITORIA; 1.3 SOLIDARITY OVER CONSCIENCE; 2: Loyalty and Justice; 2.1 TELEOLOGICAL SOLIDARITY; 2.1.1 Teleological Justification; 2.1.2 Coalitions and Associations; 2.1.3 Agonism and Deference; 2.2 LOYALTY SOLIDARITY; 2.2.1 Nonconscientious Action
- 2.2.2 Solidarity is not Loyalty2.3 CONCLUSION; 3: Solidarity in Action; 3.1 WHAT IS SOLIDARITY?; 3.2 SOLIDARY COLLECTIVE ACTION; 3.2.1 Sangiovanni's Account; 3.2.2 Evaluating Sangiovanni's Account; 3.2.2.1 Alienation; 3.2.2.2 Authority and Asymmetry; 3.2.3 Deferential Solidary Action; 3.3 SOLIDARY CONGREGATIONS; 3.4 SHARED AGENCY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; 3.5 CONCLUSION; 4: Autonomy and Deference; 4.1 THE PRINCIPLE OF AUTONOMY; 4.1.1 Conceptual and Evaluative Interpretations; 4.1.2 Moral Arguments for Autonomy; 4.2 FOR DEFERENCE; 4.2.1 Autonomy and Immobilization; 4.2.2 The Mechanics of Deference
- 4.2.3 Limits of Deference4.3 LIBERAL DEFERENCE; 4.4 CONCLUSION; 5: The Dilemma of Deference; 5.1 EPISTEMIC DEFERENCE; 5.2 RELATIONSHIP DEFERENCE; 5.3 STRUCTURAL DEFERENCE; 5.3.1 Prioritarianism; 5.3.2 Equity as Political Well-being; 5.3.3 Deferring on the Basis of Equity; 5.3.4 Individuating Circumstance Zones; 5.4 THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF INEQUITY; 5.4.1 Is Inequity Perceptible?; 5.4.2 Heuristics; 5.4.3 Counterfactual Deference and the Role of Conscience; 5.5 CONCLUSION: BDS-AN INITIAL REPLY; 6: Solidarity as Equity; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 KANTIAN EQUITY; 6.3 ARISTOTELIAN EQUITY
- 6.4 BEING AN EQUITABLE PERSON6.5 EJECTING PEOPLE FROM BUSES; 6.6 CONCLUSION; 7: The Ethics of Solidarity; 7.1 DEMANDINGNESS; 7.1.1 Four Friends; 7.1.2 Tracking Duties; 7.1.3 Aggregation; 7.1.4 Living for Justice; 7.1.5 The Four Friends, Again; 7.2 INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AND CHOICE; 7.2.1 Selecting Objects of Solidarity; 7.2.2 Individual Initiative; 7.3 SOLIDARITY AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; 7.3.1 After the Act; 7.3.2 Parsing Responsibility for Wrongful Acts in Solidarity; 8: Equity and the Limits of Solidarity; 8.1 SOLIDARITY AND CONSUMER RESPONSIBILITY; 8.1.1 The Very Idea of Consumer Ethics
- 8.1.2 Against Conscientious Consumption8.1.3 Back to BDS; 8.2 VIOLENCE FOR EQUITY?; 8.3 CONCLUSION; Select Bibliography; Index