Jonathan Seglow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Seglow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Seglow |
| SIGNATURE | SEGLOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2766-1955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Gay Is Your Cake: Religious Accommodation, Integrity, and Discrimination
This article examines the concept of integrity in scholarly debate on religious accommodation. There is a scholarly consensus on the value of integrity as manifesting one’s commitments (‘MM integrity’) as a way of approaching accommodation disputes, but the article argues that MM integrity is often at stake on both sides of a legal dispute. It defends a divergent view of integrity where it consists in a person’s responsible exercise of her moral …
Freedom of speech: A relational defence
Much of the recent literature on freedom of speech has focused on the arguments for and against the regulation of certain kinds of speech. Discussions of hate speech and offensive speech, for example, abound in this literature, as do debates concerning the permissibility of pornography. Less attention has been paid, however, at least recently, to the normative foundations of freedom of speech where three classic justifications still prevail, base…
The Value of Sacred Places
This article explores the neglected topic of the value of sacred places of various religions. The great value that adherents of these religions ascribe to these places cannot account for their public political value, given that the duty to treat such places with respect falls on all citizens, whatever their faith. The article considers and rejects three views regarding the value of sacred places: that they are protected by cultural rights, that d…
What are the criteria for religious recognition
Freedom of expression
This article surveys the classic and contemporary literature on the nature and limits of freedom of expression (or free speech). It begins by surveying the main philosophical justifications for free speech, before moving to consider the two most discussed topics in the free speech literature: hate speech and pornography. The article offers some brief reflections on the large number of arguments which have been offered on these topics. Three newer…
Respecting multiculturalism? Respecting religion
This response to Balint focuses on his stance towards minority cultural and religious practices where he is in general sceptical of special accommodation. I argue that there are grounds to grant special rights and other accommodative measures towards such minorities on the basis of freedom and citizenship (both values Balint endorses), and appraisal respect, a value he rejects. The upshot is more support for a hands-on, active state than the hand…
Introduction to a Symposium on Peter Balint’s Respecting Toleration
KEYWORDS: Respecting TolerationPeter BalintJohn HortonPeter JonesEmanuela CevaSune LægaardJonathan Seglow
Reassessing Recognition
Religious accommodation law in the UK: Five normative gaps
This article offers a normative analysis of the state of religious accommodation law in the UK. It identifies five ‘normative gaps’ in the law where the legal discussion could benefit by employing the analytical lens of political theory. These gaps concern (i) what sorts of religious (or non-religious) beliefs should enjoy protected status; (ii) how the law should address issues of individual choice and responsibility; (iii) whether there is a ge…
Introduction: Religion and public life
Political debate about the place of religion and religious identities in liberal democracies is as vigorous as ever, as evidenced by Christians' assertiveness against what they regard as secularising tendencies and the attempt to eliminate their established place in public life, as well as religious minorities seeking to combat their often marginalised position and the specific injustices to which they are subject (such as anti-Semitism and Islam…
What’s wrong with establishment
This paper examines what objections we might have to moderate religious establishment as found in a number of contemporary liberal democracies. This form of establishment respects citizen’s rights and liberties, so it is not immediately clear what if anything is troubling about it. One view is that moderate establishment is alienating for non-believers but I suggest this is either untrue or rests on contestable premises. Another view is that mode…
Hate Speech, Dignity and Self-Respect
Defending Associative Duties
This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel account which justifies such duties through the realization of values that are produced in these various kinds of social relationships. Seglow engages with several key contemporary debates including parental rights over children’s education, the burdens of eldercare, permissible partiality to friends, and …
The margins of citizenship: Introduction
Marginalization as non-contribution
This paper examines the phenomenon of marginalization through the lens of the relatively neglected concept of contribution. It argues that the opportunity to contribute positively to others’ lives is an important component of human well-being which promotes the goods of meaning, self-respect and reliance. Where individuals enjoy that opportunity, they are on that account less marginalized. Contributory practices channelled through publicly recogn…
Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging
What does it take to become a citizen of a particular nation? Is it justified to restrict membership of a society, and if so, on what grounds? This book explores a series of pressing, controversial is
Associative Duties and Global Justice
This article examines the conflict between people's associative duties and their wider obligations of global justice. After clarifying the nature of associative duties, it defends the view that such duties may be civic in nature: obtaining between citizens, not just friends and families. Samuel Scheffler's 'distributive objection' to civic associative duties is then presented in the context of global distributive injustice. Three solutions to the…
Arguments for Naturalisation
This article investigates what moral principles should inform states' decisions to grant resident migrants the rights of full citizenship. Some work on this question has focused on the beliefs and attitudes it is thought desirable for migrants to have. This article takes a different approach. Beginning from the assumption that a high rate of naturalisation is desirable, the article investigates four arguments in its favour. The contribution argum…
Rights, Contribution, Achievement and the World: Some thoughts on Honneth's Recognitive ideal
This article explores Axel Honneth's theory of recognition as the most worked out account of recognition available to political philosophy. I argue that Honneth over-estimates the degree to which rights deliver recognition; faces internal problems if his theory is extended to evaluate global injustice; and shows an ambivalence over the criterial basis for esteem. I go on to argue that the institutional fabric of everyday life has a more significa…
Quatre théories d'acquisition de la nationalité
Cet article examine les raisons morales pour lesquelles les Etats devraient accorder la nationalité aux migrants de longue durée qui résident sur leur territoire. Contre la conception selon laquelle les Etats devraient (pour des raisons de souveraineté démocratique) jouir d'une totale discrétion en la matière, il soutient que la politique de naturalisation devrait être raisonnablement acceptable par toutes les parties concernées. Les théories com…
Immigration justice and borders: Towards a Global Agreement
Liberalism and Value Pluralism
Neutrality and Equal Respect: On Charles Larmore's Theory of Political Liberalism
Introduction: Egoism, Altruism and Impartiality
Living Well as a Challenge
Arguments for Naturalisation
This article investigates what moral principles should inform states' decisions to grant resident migrants the rights of full citizenship. Some work on this question has focused on the beliefs and attitudes it is thought desirable for migrants to have. This article takes a different approach. Beginning from the assumption that a high rate of naturalisation is desirable, the article investigates four arguments in its favour. The contribution argum…
Rights, Contribution, Achievement and the World: Some thoughts on Honneth's Recognitive ideal
This article explores Axel Honneth's theory of recognition as the most worked out account of recognition available to political philosophy. I argue that Honneth over-estimates the degree to which rights deliver recognition; faces internal problems if his theory is extended to evaluate global injustice; and shows an ambivalence over the criterial basis for esteem. I go on to argue that the institutional fabric of everyday life has a more significa…
What’s wrong with establishment
This paper examines what objections we might have to moderate religious establishment as found in a number of contemporary liberal democracies. This form of establishment respects citizen’s rights and liberties, so it is not immediately clear what if anything is troubling about it. One view is that moderate establishment is alienating for non-believers but I suggest this is either untrue or rests on contestable premises. Another view is that mode…
Universals and Particulars: The Case of Liberal Cultural Nationalism
Recent work in liberal political theory has rejected cosmopolitanism to incorporate the empirical agenda of nationalism and multiculturalism. In this article three issues facing cultural national liberalism are first extracted from Rawls's Political Liberalism: the range of reasonable cultural identities under liberalism; the substantive ethical bases of the state; and the possibility of principles of cultural self-respect. I then examine three w…
Freedom of speech: A relational defence
Much of the recent literature on freedom of speech has focused on the arguments for and against the regulation of certain kinds of speech. Discussions of hate speech and offensive speech, for example, abound in this literature, as do debates concerning the permissibility of pornography. Less attention has been paid, however, at least recently, to the normative foundations of freedom of speech where three classic justifications still prevail, base…
Immigration justice and borders: Towards a Global Agreement
Freedom of expression
This article surveys the classic and contemporary literature on the nature and limits of freedom of expression (or free speech). It begins by surveying the main philosophical justifications for free speech, before moving to consider the two most discussed topics in the free speech literature: hate speech and pornography. The article offers some brief reflections on the large number of arguments which have been offered on these topics. Three newer…
Religious accommodation law in the UK: Five normative gaps
This article offers a normative analysis of the state of religious accommodation law in the UK. It identifies five ‘normative gaps’ in the law where the legal discussion could benefit by employing the analytical lens of political theory. These gaps concern (i) what sorts of religious (or non-religious) beliefs should enjoy protected status; (ii) how the law should address issues of individual choice and responsibility; (iii) whether there is a ge…
Quatre théories d'acquisition de la nationalité
Cet article examine les raisons morales pour lesquelles les Etats devraient accorder la nationalité aux migrants de longue durée qui résident sur leur territoire. Contre la conception selon laquelle les Etats devraient (pour des raisons de souveraineté démocratique) jouir d'une totale discrétion en la matière, il soutient que la politique de naturalisation devrait être raisonnablement acceptable par toutes les parties concernées. Les théories com…
Liberalism and Value Pluralism
Recognition as Liberalism
Altruism and freedom
Though people value altruism, they also value freely choosing if and when to be altruistic. They essay explores the question of whether a society that is more altruistic would be one which is more free or less. It begins by considering cases where altruism is legally enforced, the paradigm example of which is good Samaritan legislation. I argue that coercively enforcing altruistic duties submerges people's altruistic motives under the demands of …
Reply to Ruth Abbey
Cultural Authenticity and Liberal Democracy: A Reply to Colin Tyler
This paper takes issue with Colin Tyler's critique of Bhikhu Parekh's work on liberalism and cultural pluralism in his ‘The Implications of Parekh's Cultural Pluralism’, Politics 16(3). I argue that Tyler subscribes to an overly monolithic view of cultural identity, that democracy can be a procedural or practical ideal not a cultural understanding, and that in any case the existence of deep-seated cultural pluralism is a good reason for rethinkin…
Goodness in an age of pluralism: On Charles Taylor's moral theory
Richard Rorty and the Problem of the Person
In Richard Rorty's persuasive alternative to contemporary liberal theory he maintains that a contingent, rather than a universalist, liberalism can better engender human solidarity and that the ironic stance can better safeguard liberal freedom than any metaphysical buttress. In an internal critique I argue that irony is an aesthetic, rather than, as solidarity, a moral ideal. Moreover, Rorty's notion of agency is too voluntaristic to supply the …
Cultural Authenticity and Liberal Democracy: A Reply to Colin Tyler
This paper takes issue with Colin Tyler's critique of Bhikhu Parekh's work on liberalism and cultural pluralism in his ‘The Implications of Parekh's Cultural Pluralism’, Politics 16(3). I argue that Tyler subscribes to an overly monolithic view of cultural identity, that democracy can be a procedural or practical ideal not a cultural understanding, and that in any case the existence of deep-seated cultural pluralism is a good reason for rethinkin…
Partisan or liberal
Universals and Particulars: The Case of Liberal Cultural Nationalism
Recent work in liberal political theory has rejected cosmopolitanism to incorporate the empirical agenda of nationalism and multiculturalism. In this article three issues facing cultural national liberalism are first extracted from Rawls's Political Liberalism: the range of reasonable cultural identities under liberalism; the substantive ethical bases of the state; and the possibility of principles of cultural self-respect. I then examine three w…
Reply to Ruth Abbey
Altruism and freedom
Though people value altruism, they also value freely choosing if and when to be altruistic. They essay explores the question of whether a society that is more altruistic would be one which is more free or less. It begins by considering cases where altruism is legally enforced, the paradigm example of which is good Samaritan legislation. I argue that coercively enforcing altruistic duties submerges people's altruistic motives under the demands of …
The ethics of altruism: Introduction
(2002). The ethics of altruism: Introduction. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 5, Altruism, pp. 1-8
Neutrality and Equal Respect: On Charles Larmore's Theory of Political Liberalism
Introduction: Egoism, Altruism and Impartiality
Living Well as a Challenge
Recognition as Liberalism
Liberalism and Value Pluralism
Immigration justice and borders: Towards a Global Agreement
Quatre théories d'acquisition de la nationalité
Cet article examine les raisons morales pour lesquelles les Etats devraient accorder la nationalité aux migrants de longue durée qui résident sur leur territoire. Contre la conception selon laquelle les Etats devraient (pour des raisons de souveraineté démocratique) jouir d'une totale discrétion en la matière, il soutient que la politique de naturalisation devrait être raisonnablement acceptable par toutes les parties concernées. Les théories com…
Arguments for Naturalisation
This article investigates what moral principles should inform states' decisions to grant resident migrants the rights of full citizenship. Some work on this question has focused on the beliefs and attitudes it is thought desirable for migrants to have. This article takes a different approach. Beginning from the assumption that a high rate of naturalisation is desirable, the article investigates four arguments in its favour. The contribution argum…
Rights, Contribution, Achievement and the World: Some thoughts on Honneth's Recognitive ideal
This article explores Axel Honneth's theory of recognition as the most worked out account of recognition available to political philosophy. I argue that Honneth over-estimates the degree to which rights deliver recognition; faces internal problems if his theory is extended to evaluate global injustice; and shows an ambivalence over the criterial basis for esteem. I go on to argue that the institutional fabric of everyday life has a more significa…
Citizenship Acquisition and National Belonging
What does it take to become a citizen of a particular nation? Is it justified to restrict membership of a society, and if so, on what grounds? This book explores a series of pressing, controversial is
Associative Duties and Global Justice
This article examines the conflict between people's associative duties and their wider obligations of global justice. After clarifying the nature of associative duties, it defends the view that such duties may be civic in nature: obtaining between citizens, not just friends and families. Samuel Scheffler's 'distributive objection' to civic associative duties is then presented in the context of global distributive injustice. Three solutions to the…
Defending Associative Duties
This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel account which justifies such duties through the realization of values that are produced in these various kinds of social relationships. Seglow engages with several key contemporary debates including parental rights over children’s education, the burdens of eldercare, permissible partiality to friends, and …
The margins of citizenship: Introduction
Marginalization as non-contribution
This paper examines the phenomenon of marginalization through the lens of the relatively neglected concept of contribution. It argues that the opportunity to contribute positively to others’ lives is an important component of human well-being which promotes the goods of meaning, self-respect and reliance. Where individuals enjoy that opportunity, they are on that account less marginalized. Contributory practices channelled through publicly recogn…
Hate Speech, Dignity and Self-Respect
Religious accommodation law in the UK: Five normative gaps
This article offers a normative analysis of the state of religious accommodation law in the UK. It identifies five ‘normative gaps’ in the law where the legal discussion could benefit by employing the analytical lens of political theory. These gaps concern (i) what sorts of religious (or non-religious) beliefs should enjoy protected status; (ii) how the law should address issues of individual choice and responsibility; (iii) whether there is a ge…
Introduction: Religion and public life
Political debate about the place of religion and religious identities in liberal democracies is as vigorous as ever, as evidenced by Christians' assertiveness against what they regard as secularising tendencies and the attempt to eliminate their established place in public life, as well as religious minorities seeking to combat their often marginalised position and the specific injustices to which they are subject (such as anti-Semitism and Islam…
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