Doing African political philosophy from a universalist perspective

Groningen African Political Philosophy , 1860 - 1995

Cognitivism in Political Philosophy

A constraint on political cognitivism is that it give some basis for responding to certain worries. These worries prompt political liberals such as Rawls to deny that the search for truth can provide a shared basis for a conception of justice in a pluralistic democratic society.2 On this view, a pluralistic democratic state that avoids the authoritarian use of state power should be neutral abou...

The political misuse of psychiatry: an African-Caribbean perspective.

Capitalist democracy in the West is predicated on the belief that Western European democracy is the only correct and just form, and that Western civilization represents the highest form of human social development. This belief is driven by a conviction that highlights the individual’s “right to freedom.” This concept of liberty originates in the Western overvalued idea that all goods and servic...

Cluster randomization and political philosophy.

In this paper, I will argue that, while the ethical issues raised by cluster randomization can be challenging, they are not new. My thesis divides neatly into two parts. In the first, easier part I argue that many of the ethical challenges posed by cluster randomized human subjects research are clearly present in other types of human subjects research, and so are not novel. In the second, more ...

Recent Moral and Political Philosophy

ontemporary ethical theory begins with G. E. Moore (1873–1958). Moore opened up new issues for consideration and altered the focus of ethical discussion. Much of twentieth-century analytic ethics, at least until recently, treated issues that were raised by Moore or by philosophers responding either to him or to other respondents. Although analytic ethical philosophers discussed many questions t...