Avner De-Shalit
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 92554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Avner De-Shalit |
| PRENOMES | Avner |
| SOBRENOME | De-Shalit |
| ASSINATURA | DE-SHALIT A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
On Fertile Functionings
We are delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Martha Nussbaum’s excellent Creating Capabilities. In that book Nussbaum pays us the great compliment of discussing some aspects of our own book Disadvantage (Wolff and de-Shalit, 2007), both endorsing some of our analysis, yet also entering some criticisms. We would like here to explain the issues and provide our response. The ideas that Nussbaum endorses, albeit with qualifications, from ou…
Levelling the Playing Field
What is equal opportunity? In an illuminating book, Andrew Mason brings to this contested concept an understanding of great breadth in the context of contemporary egalitarian thought. It is a timely book, because the discussion of equality in general, and in particular of equality of opportunity, has reached a point where it is crucial to rethink equal opportunity, and perhaps redefine it, given the many definitions, often conflicting, used by va…
Disadvantage
What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, it is shown how taking theory and practice together is essential if the …
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasing sense for political theorists in each camp to engage with one another. This book, first published in 2006, draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Andrew Dob…
Political Philosophy and Empowering Citizens
This paper defends the idea of empowering citizens by means of teaching them political philosophy. First, I explain and define empowerment as an experience leading to the development of critical and philosophical capabilities. Several challenges to using philosophy to empower citizens are then discussed and rejected. This group of challenges is called the ‘divorce theory’, because, according to them, philosophy and politics should be distinguishe…
Being Irish
This article is one of a series commissioned by Government and Opposition exploring identity politics in several national and international contexts. Though ostensibly a civic republic, Ireland has been shaped by a certain conception of Irish culture. Cultural claims are typically political but have the potential to allow community interests to override concern for individual well-being. The construction of the Irish state focused on the maintena…
From Malthus to Six Billion - and Back
Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice
What role can philosophers play in helping to resolve the moral and political dilemmas faced by environmental activists and policymakers? Moving away from environmental philosophy's usual focus on abstractions such as nonanthropocentrism and the intrinsic value of nature, this book focuses on environmental practice as the starting point for theoretical reflection. Philosophical thinking, it argues, need not be divided into the academic and the pr…
Ten Commandments of How to Fail in an Environmental Campaign
The Environment Between Theory and Practice
Abstract When constructing environmental policies in democratic regimes, there is a need for a theory that can be used not only by academics but also by politicians and activists. So why has the major part of environmental ethics failed to penetrate environmental policy and serve as its rationale? Obviously, there is a gap between the questions that environmental philosophers discuss and the issues that motivate environmental activists. Avner de‐…
The Environment
"The author defends a radical position in relations to both environmental protection and social policies in order to put forward a political theory, which is not only philosophically sound, but also relevant to the practice of environmental activism. He argues that several directions in environmental ethics can be at odds with the contemporary political debates surrounding environmental politics. He then goes on to examine the environmental scope…
Fairness and Futurity
Transnational and International Exploitation
There are four types of exploitation in the international arena: exploitation between states; exploitation within state A, the beneficiaries of which are mainly people in state B; exploitation of individuals from one country by another state in which they work; exploitation of individuals from one country by individuals in another state, in which they work. The Marxian and the liberal theories of exploitation are inadequate to discuss these cases…
On behalf of “the participation of the people”
National Self-Determination
Many liberal theorists misinterpret nationality and the demand for national self-determination. This paper asks what is the claim for national self-determination. Following this, it is asked which way of meeting the demand is the best one. While analysing the circumstances in which the demand is raised, it is argued that this claim is political rather than cultural, and that therefore some of the solutions which have been put forward in theory an…
Is Liberalism Environment-Friendly
L'A. defend la these selon laquelle le liberalisme offre une structure ideologique favorable au developpement d'une philosophie environnementale, mais qu'il rencontre des difficultes concernant la justification des politiques environnementales souvent associees a un interventionnisme de l'Etat incompatible avec le comportement economique de l'individu
National Self-Determination
Many liberal theorists misinterpret nationality and the demand for national self-determination. This paper asks what is the claim for national self-determination. Following this, it is asked which way of meeting the demand is the best one. While analysing the circumstances in which the demand is raised, it is argued that this claim is political rather than cultural, and that therefore some of the solutions which have been put forward in theory an…
Political Philosophy and Empowering Citizens
This paper defends the idea of empowering citizens by means of teaching them political philosophy. First, I explain and define empowerment as an experience leading to the development of critical and philosophical capabilities. Several challenges to using philosophy to empower citizens are then discussed and rejected. This group of challenges is called the ‘divorce theory’, because, according to them, philosophy and politics should be distinguishe…
On Fertile Functionings
We are delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Martha Nussbaum’s excellent Creating Capabilities. In that book Nussbaum pays us the great compliment of discussing some aspects of our own book Disadvantage (Wolff and de-Shalit, 2007), both endorsing some of our analysis, yet also entering some criticisms. We would like here to explain the issues and provide our response. The ideas that Nussbaum endorses, albeit with qualifications, from ou…
Transnational and International Exploitation
There are four types of exploitation in the international arena: exploitation between states; exploitation within state A, the beneficiaries of which are mainly people in state B; exploitation of individuals from one country by another state in which they work; exploitation of individuals from one country by individuals in another state, in which they work. The Marxian and the liberal theories of exploitation are inadequate to discuss these cases…
Ten Commandments of How to Fail in an Environmental Campaign
On behalf of “the participation of the people”
Being Irish
This article is one of a series commissioned by Government and Opposition exploring identity politics in several national and international contexts. Though ostensibly a civic republic, Ireland has been shaped by a certain conception of Irish culture. Cultural claims are typically political but have the potential to allow community interests to override concern for individual well-being. The construction of the Irish state focused on the maintena…
Is Liberalism Environment-Friendly
L'A. defend la these selon laquelle le liberalisme offre une structure ideologique favorable au developpement d'une philosophie environnementale, mais qu'il rencontre des difficultes concernant la justification des politiques environnementales souvent associees a un interventionnisme de l'Etat incompatible avec le comportement economique de l'individu
National Self-Determination
Many liberal theorists misinterpret nationality and the demand for national self-determination. This paper asks what is the claim for national self-determination. Following this, it is asked which way of meeting the demand is the best one. While analysing the circumstances in which the demand is raised, it is argued that this claim is political rather than cultural, and that therefore some of the solutions which have been put forward in theory an…
On behalf of “the participation of the people”
Transnational and International Exploitation
There are four types of exploitation in the international arena: exploitation between states; exploitation within state A, the beneficiaries of which are mainly people in state B; exploitation of individuals from one country by another state in which they work; exploitation of individuals from one country by individuals in another state, in which they work. The Marxian and the liberal theories of exploitation are inadequate to discuss these cases…
The Environment Between Theory and Practice
Abstract When constructing environmental policies in democratic regimes, there is a need for a theory that can be used not only by academics but also by politicians and activists. So why has the major part of environmental ethics failed to penetrate environmental policy and serve as its rationale? Obviously, there is a gap between the questions that environmental philosophers discuss and the issues that motivate environmental activists. Avner de‐…
The Environment
"The author defends a radical position in relations to both environmental protection and social policies in order to put forward a political theory, which is not only philosophically sound, but also relevant to the practice of environmental activism. He argues that several directions in environmental ethics can be at odds with the contemporary political debates surrounding environmental politics. He then goes on to examine the environmental scope…
Fairness and Futurity
Ten Commandments of How to Fail in an Environmental Campaign
Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice
What role can philosophers play in helping to resolve the moral and political dilemmas faced by environmental activists and policymakers? Moving away from environmental philosophy's usual focus on abstractions such as nonanthropocentrism and the intrinsic value of nature, this book focuses on environmental practice as the starting point for theoretical reflection. Philosophical thinking, it argues, need not be divided into the academic and the pr…
Political Philosophy and Empowering Citizens
This paper defends the idea of empowering citizens by means of teaching them political philosophy. First, I explain and define empowerment as an experience leading to the development of critical and philosophical capabilities. Several challenges to using philosophy to empower citizens are then discussed and rejected. This group of challenges is called the ‘divorce theory’, because, according to them, philosophy and politics should be distinguishe…
Being Irish
This article is one of a series commissioned by Government and Opposition exploring identity politics in several national and international contexts. Though ostensibly a civic republic, Ireland has been shaped by a certain conception of Irish culture. Cultural claims are typically political but have the potential to allow community interests to override concern for individual well-being. The construction of the Irish state focused on the maintena…
From Malthus to Six Billion - and Back
Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge
In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasing sense for political theorists in each camp to engage with one another. This book, first published in 2006, draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Andrew Dob…
Disadvantage
What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, it is shown how taking theory and practice together is essential if the …
Levelling the Playing Field
What is equal opportunity? In an illuminating book, Andrew Mason brings to this contested concept an understanding of great breadth in the context of contemporary egalitarian thought. It is a timely book, because the discussion of equality in general, and in particular of equality of opportunity, has reached a point where it is crucial to rethink equal opportunity, and perhaps redefine it, given the many definitions, often conflicting, used by va…
On Fertile Functionings
We are delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Martha Nussbaum’s excellent Creating Capabilities. In that book Nussbaum pays us the great compliment of discussing some aspects of our own book Disadvantage (Wolff and de-Shalit, 2007), both endorsing some of our analysis, yet also entering some criticisms. We would like here to explain the issues and provide our response. The ideas that Nussbaum endorses, albeit with qualifications, from ou…
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