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On Human Rights And Structural Justice, Robert Howard
On Human Rights And Structural Justice, Robert Howard
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The rights literature is full of accounts of rights, and each captures important aspects of the nature and function of rights. But none of the leading theories offers a comprehensive account of the nature and function of rights that both stands up under the pressure of counterexamples and can buck accusations of internal inconsistency.
In this paper I embrace much of Nicholas Wolterstorff's work on justice and the relation of human rights to worth, and I propose changes to his account in order to strengthen it. I evoke the works of Johan Galtung, Richard Rubenstein, and Elizabeth Anderson in order …
Civic Tenderness: Love's Role In Achieving Justice, Justin Leonard Clardy
Civic Tenderness: Love's Role In Achieving Justice, Justin Leonard Clardy
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Martha Nussbaum’s work Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice identifies the role that compassion plays in motivating citizens in a just society. I expand on this discussion by considering how attitudes of indifference pose a challenge to the extension of compassion in our society. If we are indifferent to others who are in situations of need, we are not equipped to experience compassion for them. Building on Nussbaum’s account, I develop an analytic framework for the public emotion of Civic Tenderness to combat indifference.
Civic tenderness is an orientation of concern that is generated for people and groups that …