The Limits of Constructivism

Can Rawls Condemn Female Genital Mutilation

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ID6402964
AutoresAndrew Koppelman (0009-0008-3023-6205, Northwestern University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen71
Número3
Páginas459-482
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670509990052
OpenAlexW1985747421
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas16

Constructivist political theory, championed most prominently by John Rawls, builds up a conception of justice from the minimal requirements of political life. It has two powerful attractions. It promises a kind of civic unity in the face of irresolvable differences about the good life. It also offers a foundation for human rights that is secure in the face of those same differences. The very parsimony that is its strength, however, deprives it of the resources to condemn some atrocities. Because it focuses on the political aspect of persons, it has difficulty cognizing violence done to those aspects of the person that are not political, preeminently the body. Constructivism thus can be only a part of an acceptable theory of justice

Constructivism (international relations · Epistemology · Female circumcision · Human rights · International relations · Law and economics · Normative · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Reflective equilibrium · Sociology · Value pluralism · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Religious Freedom and Discrimination

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