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An Eco-Political Theory Of Territory, Jonathan Kwan
An Eco-Political Theory Of Territory, Jonathan Kwan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation, I advance a novel eco-political theory of territory that grounds a people’s territorial rights in its right to political self-determination understood as inextricably and normatively bound up with its right to ecological integrity and duty of ecological sustainability. I develop a social ontology of the people as the holder of territorial rights based on its members’ place-based common activities that aim at their own independent governance rather than in terms of state institutions, cultural nationhood, ethnogeography, political identity, or shared conceptions of justice. The common activities of a people generate a group right to democratic self-determination since …
Ethical Validity: An Ethical Validity Claim For Discourse Ethics, Jamie B. Lindsay
Ethical Validity: An Ethical Validity Claim For Discourse Ethics, Jamie B. Lindsay
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Discourse ethicists generally are anti-realists about moral rightness, in that the rightness of moral norms is a matter of discursive justification, and is not grounded in or by any objective feature of the world. Put differently, the position is that rightness is wholly constructed by our moral practices. Further, discourse ethics and liberal theories of justice more broadly generally rely on a distinction between goods that are generalizable, and goods that are in some way context-bound and particularistic. Jürgen Habermas’ discourse ethics makes the distinction wholly formal, abstaining from any theoretical commitment to which goods are generalizable and leaving this …