Patriotism and Government

Tolstoy, Leo

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“…Whatever motivation might exist for questioning the law in the interest of the greater authority of justice is effectually rectified by the ever-present threat of punishment for disobedience. This, in part, is what Tolstoy’s (1990, p. 140) means when he contends that law functions by way of organized “violence.” As he notes: “The essence of legislature does not lie in subject or object, in rights, or in the idea of the dominion of the collective will of the people. .…”

Section: Justice And/as Lawmentioning

confidence: 86%

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

Williams

Arrigo

2021

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice depends on a set of assumptions and predispositions—both moral and jurisprudential—whose meanings are essential to comprehending its psychological structure. This article sets out to explore several themes that our integral to our thesis on the virtues (i.e., the being) of justice. We reclaim justice’s aretaic significance, critique the common conflation of justice and law, discuss how the dominant legalistic conception of justice is rooted in a particular view of human nature, suggest how justice might be more properly grounded in natural moral sensibilities, and provide a tentative explication of the psychological character of justice as a twofold moral disposition. Given this exploratory commentary, we conclude by reflecting on how individual well-being, system-wide progress, and transformative social change are both possible and practical, in the interest of promoting the virtues of justice within the practice of crime control and offender therapy.

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Section: Justice And/as Lawmentioning

confidence: 86%

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

Williams

Arrigo

2021

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…For this would mean calling down on themselves all the miseries of war, such as doing the fighting themselves, supplying [paying] the costs…[taking] upon themselves a burden of debt. This kind of pacific attitude based on self-interest is also emphasized by the Christian pacifist and anarchist, Leo Tolstoy, who says that it is in the common interest of common people to avoid war: Whoever you may be-a Frenchman, Russian, Englishman…you must understand that all our real human interests, whatever they be …all these interests…in no way oppose the interests of the other nations (Tolstoy 1900).…”

Section: The Institutional Explanation Of the Monadic Democratic Peacementioning

confidence: 97%

Anomalies of the Wilsonian (Monadic) Democratic Peace in the Nineteenth Century: What Can They Tell Us?

Vasquez

2020

SSRN Journal

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The Wilsonian Monadic Peace argues that not only do joint democracies not fight each other, but they are inherently peaceful. They get involved in war primarily by being attacked and rarely initiate wars. The institutional explanation of this monadic democratic peace maintains that democracies have this pacific tendency because the people use the legislature to restrain the executive. This paper argues that the best way to assess the causal logic underlying the institutional explanation is by comparing specific cases where war is avoided and where it occurs to see if legislatures and the public restrain leaders. Three historical cases from the Nineteenth Century, which were uncovered as part of a larger project, are reviewed in detail: one that did not go to war and two that did. Cases are drawn from the most democratic states at the time-France, England, and the U.S. In each instance the casual process did not work the way it was expected. Instead, the legislature and the "public" were more prone to war hysteria than the executive. Each of these cases is regarded as anomalous for the democratic peace. The implications of these three anomalies are explored in detail.

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“…Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself” (Tolstoy 1990).…”

Section: Philosophy (De)mystification Emancipation and The Evermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Import of Wittgenstein’sPhilosophical Investigations

Gakis

2018

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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The present article aims at investigating the political aspects of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, focusing mainly on the Philosophical Investigations. This theme remains rather marginal within Wittgensteinian scholarship, facing the key challenge of the sparsity of explicit discussions of political issues in Wittgenstein’s writings. Based on the broader anthropological and synecdochic character of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, the main objective of the article is to make explicit the implicit political import of some of the main themes of the Philosophical Investigations. This is done by correlating them with certain political concepts and issues, such as reification, mystification, emancipation, self-institution and the common(s). In such a way, a new light is shed on Wittgenstein’s influence on and his relevance to contemporary political theory, while at the same time the first steps are taken for the enrichment of the discussion regarding personal and social autonomy and the critique of late capitalism with a distinctive Wittgensteinian direction.

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Patriotism and Government

Cited by 5 publications

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The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

Anomalies of the Wilsonian (Monadic) Democratic Peace in the Nineteenth Century: What Can They Tell Us?

The Political Import of Wittgenstein’sPhilosophical Investigations

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