Simon Hope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Hope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hope |
| SIGNATURE | HOPE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Moral Habitat
Perfect and Imperfect Duty
I attempt first to disentangle three aspects of Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duty. There is the central distinction between principles of duty contrary to that which is contradictory in conception/consistent in conception but contradictory in will. There is also a distinction between essential and non-essential duties: those which cannot, or occasionally can, be passed over consistent with the requirements of morality. Finally…
Political Philosophy as Practical Philosophy
First paragraph: From where should political philosophy take its normative orientation? According to self‐described “political realists,” political philosophy is not oriented by ordinary moral reasoning about values and obligations, but must take its normative orientation from an interpretive understanding of the practice of politics itself. This doesn't mean that moral considerations have no place in political philosophy—only that if they do, th…
Idealization, Justice, and the Form of Practical Reason
Current debates about ideal theory and idealization in modern moral and political philosophy do not typically scrutinize the form of reflection itself. This is an unfortunate oversight: assumptions about the form of reflection shape the positions defended in those debates. I argue that the appropriate form of reflection on the nature and justification of standards of justice and morality is the form of practical reason. I further argue that the f…
The Problem of Political Authority
Subsistence Needs, Human Rights, and Imperfect Duties
I address the usefulness of thinking about a human right to subsistence within conceptions of human rights grounded in ordinary moral reasoning. I argue that that natural rights should be understood as rights in rem , with their dynamism constrained by the requirements of justification and their scope constrained by the distinction between perfect and imperfect duty. I then suggest that many of the most pressing demands which the moral significan…
Neo-Aristotelian Social Justice
K antian Imperfect Duties and Modern Debates over Human Rights
First paragraph: THE notion of an imperfect duty is a confused one in contemporary moral and political philosophy. This confusion is caused in part by a degree of talking past each other that often occurs when the perfect/imperfect distinction is invoked. Modern Kantians have offered understandings of imperfect duty that aim to remain faithful to Kant's own, and have deployed these within various debates: about the limits of human rights talk, fo…
Friendship, Justice, and Aristotle
Republicanism and human rights
I consider a small but growing corner of the global justice literature: conceptions of human rights advanced under republican lights. I outline three recent republican justificatory arguments for principles of global justice embodied in human rights: Stuart White's appeal to the republican emphasis on civic virtue, and the appeals to a republican conception of liberty advanced by Philip Pettit and James Bohman. I argue that in all three accounts,…
Self-Determination and Cultural Difference
In this paper I raise one objection to the strand of Maori political argument dubbed by its defenders ‘Kaupapa Maori theory’, the most influential statement of which is Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonising Methodologies (Zed Books, 2001). Kaupapa Maori theory links a claim about the nature of knowledge - concerning who may represent things Maori — with demands for tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) by asserting that Maori can only attain self…
The Roots and Reach of Rangatiratanga
This article investigates the meaning, scope and diverse interpretations given to the word ‘rangatiratanga’, both historically and in contemporary New Zealand. The analysis examines views about rangatiratanga, and about the idea of Maori sovereignty, in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as to broader arguments in which both empirical and moral claims are advanced. The article concludes by linking discussions about these matters to ideas …
K antian Imperfect Duties and Modern Debates over Human Rights
First paragraph: THE notion of an imperfect duty is a confused one in contemporary moral and political philosophy. This confusion is caused in part by a degree of talking past each other that often occurs when the perfect/imperfect distinction is invoked. Modern Kantians have offered understandings of imperfect duty that aim to remain faithful to Kant's own, and have deployed these within various debates: about the limits of human rights talk, fo…
Political Philosophy as Practical Philosophy
First paragraph: From where should political philosophy take its normative orientation? According to self‐described “political realists,” political philosophy is not oriented by ordinary moral reasoning about values and obligations, but must take its normative orientation from an interpretive understanding of the practice of politics itself. This doesn't mean that moral considerations have no place in political philosophy—only that if they do, th…
Self-Determination and Cultural Difference
In this paper I raise one objection to the strand of Maori political argument dubbed by its defenders ‘Kaupapa Maori theory’, the most influential statement of which is Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonising Methodologies (Zed Books, 2001). Kaupapa Maori theory links a claim about the nature of knowledge - concerning who may represent things Maori — with demands for tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) by asserting that Maori can only attain self…
The Roots and Reach of Rangatiratanga
This article investigates the meaning, scope and diverse interpretations given to the word ‘rangatiratanga’, both historically and in contemporary New Zealand. The analysis examines views about rangatiratanga, and about the idea of Maori sovereignty, in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as to broader arguments in which both empirical and moral claims are advanced. The article concludes by linking discussions about these matters to ideas …
The Roots and Reach of Rangatiratanga
This article investigates the meaning, scope and diverse interpretations given to the word ‘rangatiratanga’, both historically and in contemporary New Zealand. The analysis examines views about rangatiratanga, and about the idea of Maori sovereignty, in relation to the Treaty of Waitangi as well as to broader arguments in which both empirical and moral claims are advanced. The article concludes by linking discussions about these matters to ideas …
Self-Determination and Cultural Difference
In this paper I raise one objection to the strand of Maori political argument dubbed by its defenders ‘Kaupapa Maori theory’, the most influential statement of which is Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonising Methodologies (Zed Books, 2001). Kaupapa Maori theory links a claim about the nature of knowledge - concerning who may represent things Maori — with demands for tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) by asserting that Maori can only attain self…
Republicanism and human rights
I consider a small but growing corner of the global justice literature: conceptions of human rights advanced under republican lights. I outline three recent republican justificatory arguments for principles of global justice embodied in human rights: Stuart White's appeal to the republican emphasis on civic virtue, and the appeals to a republican conception of liberty advanced by Philip Pettit and James Bohman. I argue that in all three accounts,…
Friendship, Justice, and Aristotle
Subsistence Needs, Human Rights, and Imperfect Duties
I address the usefulness of thinking about a human right to subsistence within conceptions of human rights grounded in ordinary moral reasoning. I argue that that natural rights should be understood as rights in rem , with their dynamism constrained by the requirements of justification and their scope constrained by the distinction between perfect and imperfect duty. I then suggest that many of the most pressing demands which the moral significan…
Neo-Aristotelian Social Justice
K antian Imperfect Duties and Modern Debates over Human Rights
First paragraph: THE notion of an imperfect duty is a confused one in contemporary moral and political philosophy. This confusion is caused in part by a degree of talking past each other that often occurs when the perfect/imperfect distinction is invoked. Modern Kantians have offered understandings of imperfect duty that aim to remain faithful to Kant's own, and have deployed these within various debates: about the limits of human rights talk, fo…
The Problem of Political Authority
Idealization, Justice, and the Form of Practical Reason
Current debates about ideal theory and idealization in modern moral and political philosophy do not typically scrutinize the form of reflection itself. This is an unfortunate oversight: assumptions about the form of reflection shape the positions defended in those debates. I argue that the appropriate form of reflection on the nature and justification of standards of justice and morality is the form of practical reason. I further argue that the f…
Political Philosophy as Practical Philosophy
First paragraph: From where should political philosophy take its normative orientation? According to self‐described “political realists,” political philosophy is not oriented by ordinary moral reasoning about values and obligations, but must take its normative orientation from an interpretive understanding of the practice of politics itself. This doesn't mean that moral considerations have no place in political philosophy—only that if they do, th…
Perfect and Imperfect Duty
I attempt first to disentangle three aspects of Kant’s distinction between perfect and imperfect duty. There is the central distinction between principles of duty contrary to that which is contradictory in conception/consistent in conception but contradictory in will. There is also a distinction between essential and non-essential duties: those which cannot, or occasionally can, be passed over consistent with the requirements of morality. Finally…
The Moral Habitat
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