Kant and Dependency Relations: Kant on the State's Right to Redistribute Resources to Protect the Rights of Dependents

Varden, Helga

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“…There, I also identify the map's variations as specified by categories of labor and identity group, while emphasizing the need for the higher-order, abstract map as a 2 I thank Lindsey Stewart for discussion on this topic. 3 For feminist liberal work that discusses care, see Abbey (2016), Baehr (2004Baehr ( , 2013Baehr ( , 2017, , , , Watson (2010, 2012), , , , , Varden (2006). way to maintain cross-cultural flexibility to track various identity groups.…”

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The Arrow of Care Map: Abstract Care in Ideal Theory

Bhandary

2017

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This paper advances a framework to conceptualize societal caregiving arrangements abstractly. It is abstract in that it brackets the meaning of our particular relationships. This framework, which I call the arrow of care map, is a descriptive tracking model that is a necessary component of a theory of justice, but it is not a normative prescription in itself. The basic idea of the map is then multiply specifiable to track various ascriptive identity categories as well as different categories of care labor. In this way, the idea of the arrow of care map serves as a conceptual frame with which to identify societies' caregiving arrangements. I characterize it as a component of "ideal theory" insofar as it seeks to clarify our values without the immediate aim of formulating principles to govern a just society. The resultant partial theory of justice is one that responds to nonideal theory's critiques of the ideological nature of liberal contractarianism's idealizations and abstractions while moving towards new visions of a just society.Keywords: ideal theory, nonideal theory, contractarianism, care, dependency care, liberal feminism, feminist liberalism, justice, distributive justice Care, compassion, and concern are crucial elements of meaningful intimate relationships Tronto 1993;. In addition, the labor of hands-on care to meet a person's basic needs often occurs within our closest relationships. However, caregiving also occurs in paid and professional contexts, which sometimes cross national boundaries through migrations of nannies and 1 I presented this paper to the Society for Analytical Feminism, Wellesley University, and as the 2017 Inaugural Robinson Grover Lecture at the University of Connecticut, where Elise Springer and Rik Hine offered interesting analyses of the view that I plan to pursue in future work. I thank the participants of each of these events. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Cynthia Stark, Lisa Tessman, and Diana Tietjens Meyers for philosophically open-minded discussions about the nature of my project. The written version of the paper was improved by comments by Richard Fumerton, two anonymous reviewers, and the editors of this journal. other care workers. Moreover, even in the contexts of families and friends, care that is given and received can be structured by internal hierarchies and inequities.Various cultures and societies have different ways of organizing life around care, such as gendered arrangements, extended families, and socialized care. These arrangements have particular histories. The history of slavery in the US means that black women who tend to white women do so in a context that is racially and historically charged. 2 In societies with extended family systems, systems of care provision are structured by gender oppression and internally structured hierarchies and norms. For instance, a daughter-in-law may provide elder care to her parents-inlaw, where that practice is linked to preferences for males in those cultures, or a youngest daughter may be designated...

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The Arrow of Care Map: Abstract Care in Ideal Theory

Bhandary

2017

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“…-La igualdad innata, es decir, la independencia, que consiste en no ser obligado por otros sino a lo que también recíprocamente podemos obligarles (…)" 6 Ahora bien, como se desprende del pasaje, el concepto aludido no es uno de libertad externa sin cualificación o irrestricta. Al contrario, se trata de un concepto de libertad según el cual "las acciones de las personas están restringidas simétricamente y de manera no-contingente" (Varden 2006:260, Tomassini 2014 y así configura el llamado "Principio universal del derecho": "Una acción es conforme a derecho (recht) cuando permite, o cuya máxima permite a la libertad del arbitrio de cada uno coexistir con la libertad de todos según una ley universal" 7 Berlin, Preussiche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1900 y años subsiguientes. Para las citas, se utilizará la edición castellana La metafísica de las costumbres, tr.…”

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Justificaciones minimalistas y republicanas del deber de asistencia a los pobres en el Estado kantiano

Oliveira

2016

An. Semin. Hist. Filos.

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Este trabajo tiene por objetivo evaluar los distintos argumentos que se han elaborado para explicar el deber de asistencia a los pobres en la filosofía política kantiana. En primer lugar, nos concentraremos en desarrollar, puntualizar y criticar los intentos de justificación de dicho deber a partir de concepciones minimalistas del Estado, consideraciones instrumentales o apelaciones al valor de la dignidad humana. Acto seguido, examinaremos los principales argumentos de corte republicano que se han elaborado a los mismos efectos. Dado que unos y otros se muestran insatisfactorios, intentaremos esbozar la estructura de un argumento más robusto en favor del deber de asistencia a los pobres a partir del concepto de “posesión común originaria del suelo”.

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“…In her reinterpretation of Kant, Helga Varden (2006) argues that because the state enables rightful private relations, naturally dependent individuals, such as adults with cognitive impairments, also have claims of justice. This implies that the last part of this second quoted passage of 6:314–15 can be taken to mean, for example, that the state must provide for special education in the case of individuals with developmental disabilities.…”

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The Citizen in Question

Lanoix¹

2007

Hypatia

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This essay examines the citizen's apparent agelessness that is foundational to liberal democratic theories. By engaging the notion of citizenship rights, Lanoix challenges this assumed perpetual adulthood and argues for a new way of conceptualizing the citizen. The broader notion of citizen as cohabitant allows for the changing relationship a citizen will have with her citizenship rights and accommodates individuals who are not self-governing but who, nonetheless, share a democratic space.

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Kant and Dependency Relations: Kant on the State's Right to Redistribute Resources to Protect the Rights of Dependents

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