Linda Hogan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566624
- eISBN:
- 9780191722042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566624.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This introductory chapter discusses the contours of the liberal polity with specific reference to the role of religious voices therein. It suggests that the contemporary world is simultaneously ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the contours of the liberal polity with specific reference to the role of religious voices therein. It suggests that the contemporary world is simultaneously secular and religious, noting that that the context in which liberal societies must function is one in which there is no prospect of religion disappearing nor of citizens agreeing on the fundamental principles of justice and of social order. The chapter highlights the range of perspectives evident in the collection through which the relationship between religion and politics in the liberal polity is discussed. There is a specific concern to assess the merits of Rawl's overlapping consensus, advanced through public reason, as the way by which the identification of such principles can be achieved.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the contours of the liberal polity with specific reference to the role of religious voices therein. It suggests that the contemporary world is simultaneously secular and religious, noting that that the context in which liberal societies must function is one in which there is no prospect of religion disappearing nor of citizens agreeing on the fundamental principles of justice and of social order. The chapter highlights the range of perspectives evident in the collection through which the relationship between religion and politics in the liberal polity is discussed. There is a specific concern to assess the merits of Rawl's overlapping consensus, advanced through public reason, as the way by which the identification of such principles can be achieved.
Oliver P. Richmond and Jason Franks
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638765
- eISBN:
- 9780748652761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638765.003.0055
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines the nature of the peace that has developed in Cambodia since the early 1990s. Despite the best efforts of international donors and the NGO community, liberal peacebuilding in ...
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This chapter examines the nature of the peace that has developed in Cambodia since the early 1990s. Despite the best efforts of international donors and the NGO community, liberal peacebuilding in Cambodia has so far failed in many of its key aims. It has also been modified by a combination of local political, economic and social dynamics, international failings, and the broader limitations of the liberal peacebuilding praxis. There have been some important advances, but serious doubts remain as to whether this project has been or can be successful, not least because of the ontological problem of whether the liberal peace is transferable into non-western or non-liberal polities. This raises the question of what type of peace has actually been built. This chapter argues that the result of international efforts so far has been to produce little more than a virtual liberal peace.Less
This chapter examines the nature of the peace that has developed in Cambodia since the early 1990s. Despite the best efforts of international donors and the NGO community, liberal peacebuilding in Cambodia has so far failed in many of its key aims. It has also been modified by a combination of local political, economic and social dynamics, international failings, and the broader limitations of the liberal peacebuilding praxis. There have been some important advances, but serious doubts remain as to whether this project has been or can be successful, not least because of the ontological problem of whether the liberal peace is transferable into non-western or non-liberal polities. This raises the question of what type of peace has actually been built. This chapter argues that the result of international efforts so far has been to produce little more than a virtual liberal peace.
Jonathan Jacobs
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198746812
- eISBN:
- 9780191809088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746812.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
The chapter explores the impact of long-term incarceration on an intersection of character, rational agency, and the ability to participate successfully in the civil society of a liberal polity. The ...
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The chapter explores the impact of long-term incarceration on an intersection of character, rational agency, and the ability to participate successfully in the civil society of a liberal polity. The chief claims are that (i) the concept of character does indeed have explanatory and ethical significance, and (ii) prevailing conditions of long-term incarceration in the US and UK often harm and worsen prisoners through their impact on dispositions constitutive of character. While a liberal polity should not require individuals to acquire virtues, neither should it cause them to have vices (or worsen their vices) in known and regular ways. The ways that prison conditions produce that result are considered, along with the respects in which this disables ex-prisoners for re-entering society. The relations between states of character and capacities for prudential self-determination are an important focus of the analysis.Less
The chapter explores the impact of long-term incarceration on an intersection of character, rational agency, and the ability to participate successfully in the civil society of a liberal polity. The chief claims are that (i) the concept of character does indeed have explanatory and ethical significance, and (ii) prevailing conditions of long-term incarceration in the US and UK often harm and worsen prisoners through their impact on dispositions constitutive of character. While a liberal polity should not require individuals to acquire virtues, neither should it cause them to have vices (or worsen their vices) in known and regular ways. The ways that prison conditions produce that result are considered, along with the respects in which this disables ex-prisoners for re-entering society. The relations between states of character and capacities for prudential self-determination are an important focus of the analysis.
