Juridical Empowerment
Empowering the Impoverished as Rights-Asserters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21701779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reza Mosayebi (0009-0002-8248-8902, Ruhr University Bochum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-254 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-2820 • E-ISSN: 1572-8447 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10677-022-10295-8 |
| OpenAlex | W4281733805 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
The idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant’s idea of rightful honour . According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights ( juridical empowerment ). I apply this conception to impoverished persons and argue that it is crucial to their self-respect, their so-called ‘power-[from-]within,’ and their political agency, and has a teleological primacy regarding our efforts to reduce poverty. I also defend the idea that there is a moral right to this form of empowerment and a corresponding duty to empower the impoverished as rights-asserters. Juridical empowerment will be compatible with a pluralism of substantive accounts of the moral wrongs of poverty and with broader conceptions of empowerment
African philosophy · Empowerment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Law and economics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Teleology · Ethics in medical practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |