A Human Right Against Social Deprivation

Brownlee, Kimberley

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“…Kimberley Brownlee features prominently among them (Brownlee 2013;2015; forthcoming; Nussbaum 2000, 79-80; see also Liao 2006;Cordelli 2015a;2015b;Gheaus 2009;Collins 2013). 2 Brownlee argues that, when individuals lack the ability and opportunity to forge meaningful social connections, a distinctive type of injustice is done to them.…”

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II—What’s Wrong with Being Lonely? Justice, Beneficence, and Meaningful Relationships

Valentini

2016

Aristot Soc Suppl Vol

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A life without liberty and material resources is not a good life. Equally, a life devoid of meaningful social relationships-such as friendships, family attachments, and romances-is not a good life. From this it is tempting to conclude that just as individuals have rights to liberty and material resources, they also have rights to access meaningful social relationships. I argue that this conclusion can be defended only in a narrow set of cases. "Pure" social-relationship deprivation-i.e., deprivation that is not caused, or accompanied, by deficits in liberties and material resourcesmostly generates demands of private beneficence. I suggest that social-relationship deprivation is unjust, hence a rights-violation, only when it is due to factors-e.g., one's race-that are irrelevant to one's being a good participant in social relationships. I thus conclude that access to meaningful social relationships is not a fundamental concern for theories of (personal or political) justice. * I am grateful to Kimberley Brownlee, Chiara Cordelli, Anca Gheaus, and Christian List for very helpful written comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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II—What’s Wrong with Being Lonely? Justice, Beneficence, and Meaningful Relationships

Valentini

2016

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“…which make for a worthwhile human life (see Brownlee 2013). The second is social contribution injustice, which denies us minimally adequate scope and recognition to contribute to social connections according to our abilities.…”

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“…First, it assumes wrongly that temporarily isolating a person is among the punishments that are justifiable in principle. But, if we grant that minimally adequate social contact is a fundamental need and human right (a position I have defended elsewhere), such treatment is no more justifiable than denying someone other fundamental resources (Brownlee 2013;2012). Would it be justifiable to imprison someone with insufficient oxygen or dirty air because prison should be burdensome?…”

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I—The Lonely Heart Breaks: On the Right to Be a Social Contributor

Brownlee¹

2016

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This paper uncovers a distinctively social type of injustice that lies in the kinds of wrongs we can do to each other specifically as social beings. In this paper, social injustice is not principally about unfair distributions of socioeconomic goods among citizens. Instead, it is about the ways we can violate each other's fundamental rights to lead socially integrated lives in close proximity and relationship with other people. This paper homes in on a particular type of social injustice, which we can call social contribution injustice. The paper identifies two distinct forms of social contribution injustice. The first form involves compromising a person's social resources so as to deny her adequate scope to contribute socially. The second form involves unjustly misvaluing a person as a social contributor, usually by not taking her seriously as a social contributor.

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“…Bauer noted that while held hostage in Iran he was allowed to have a lawyer present at the Revolutionary Court in Iran, while inmates in Pelican Bay are denied access to a lawyer when being placed in solitary confinement (Bauer, 2012). In many facilities, computerized locking and tracking systems are in place to ensure that inmates are constantly supervised without any human contact (Brownlee, 2013;Hafemeister & George, 2012). Inmates housed in these isolation units are also denied access to any work, rehabilitative, educational, or recreational programs or activities (Glidden & Rovner, 2012;Hafemeister & George, 2012).…”

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“…These symptoms include anxiety, hyper-responsiveness and motor excitement, confusion, impaired memory, perceptual distortions, aggressive impulses, ideas of reference, and depersonalization (Jossey-Bass, 2000). Other symptoms that affect numerous individuals housed in secure units include despondency, hallucinations, self-mutilation, and in extreme cases, these symptoms lead to the inmate's early death (Brownlee, 2013). The psychological effects of being housed in solitary confinement are so widespread that psychiatrists have associated these symptoms to the psychiatric syndrome Reduced Environmental Stimuli (RES), or isolation sickness (Steinbuch, 2014).…”

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A Human Right Against Social Deprivation

Cited by 15 publications

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II—What’s Wrong with Being Lonely? Justice, Beneficence, and Meaningful Relationships

II—What’s Wrong with Being Lonely? Justice, Beneficence, and Meaningful Relationships

I—The Lonely Heart Breaks: On the Right to Be a Social Contributor

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