6 edition of The decent society found in the catalog.
Published
1996
by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.
| Statement | Avishai Margalit ; translated by Naomi Goldblum. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | JC336 .M35 1996 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xi, 304 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 304 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL805701M |
| ISBN 10 | 0674194365 |
| LC Control Number | 95042273 |
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The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an ideal which can be realized even in our children's lifetime. We should get rid of cruelty first, advocated Judith Shklar.
Humiliation is a close second. There is more urgency in bringing about a decent society than in bringing about a just by: Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times op-ed is the author of To Change the Church, Bad Religion, and Privilege, and coauthor of Grand New joining the New York Times, he was a senior editor for the is the film critic for National Review, and he cohosts the New York Times’s weekly op-ed podcast, The ed on: Febru The decent society is a necessary prelude to a just society according to Margalit, and a decent society is one that does not humiliate those who depend on it.
Humiliation occurs when someone dependent on a state or a group is considered outside the boundary of concern, and treated as less than those who consider themselves members of that state /5. The Decent Society - Kindle edition by Margalit, Avishai, Goldblum, Naomi.
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This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. The Decent Society develops with great subtlety a theme largely neglected in political philosophy since Rousseau.
Alongside the denial of freedom, in a less than decent society, there can also be the humiliation that comes from second-class citizenship and the pain of exclusion from full : Avishai Margalit. Down to the last detail, an overly theoretical and abstract elaboration of exactly what would and would not comprise a decent society.
In his seminal work A Theory of Justice, John Rawls postulated an ideal Kantian society designed along strict equalitarian lines. As a philosophical construct, it has been enormously influential. But in practical terms it has stood just a bit too far Author: Avishai Margalit.
Get this from a library. The decent society. [Avishai Margalit] -- This text outlines Avishai Margalit's social philosophy, based on the foundation that a decent or civilized society is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and.
This book owes its existence to that remark of Morgenbesser's. I myself owe Morgenbesser much of my philosophical apprenticeship and not a few of my social persuasions. The idea of the decent society appealed to me, but for many years I was not able to flesh it out.
The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an ideal which can be realized even in our children's lifetime. We should get rid of cruelty first, advocated Judith Shklar.
Humiliation is a close second. There is more urgency in bringing about a decent society than in bringing about a just one. The search for 'the Decent Society' - a fit place in which to live - has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a.
The Decent Society. From Plato on, political philosophy has dealt with the question of the just society, but not with the question of the decent society. In this book, Margalit argues that the pursuit of decency, understood primarily in terms of the absence of humiliation, takes precedence over the pursuit of the ideal of justice.
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social by: The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize.
The decent society is an ideal which can be realized even in our children's lifetime. We should get rid of cruelty first, advocated Judith Shklar. Humiliation is a close second.
There is more urgency in bringing about a decent society than in bringing about a just one/10(16). The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an ideal which can be realized even in our children's lifetime.
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Alongside the denial of freedom, in a less than decent society, there can also be the humiliation that comes from second-class citizenship and the pain of /5(2).
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