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Beast-Gods, Bandits, And Beggar-Kings: The Traveler In Political Thought, Nader Sadre
Beast-Gods, Bandits, And Beggar-Kings: The Traveler In Political Thought, Nader Sadre
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation, I use texts by Plato, Locke, Homer, and Gandhi to explore the political dimension of travel. I argue that travel is a proxy for practices and conditions that exceed “normal” politics. In this capacity, travel reveals what normal politics is, or is assumed to be. Travel marks a boundary of the political realm in a double sense: it may conceal or point to a pre-political source of authority; and it may provide an intimation of new political modes and orders. My analyses suggest that there is no single or consistent relationship between travel and politics. Rather, the …
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 …