Republicanism and the Paradox of Public Health Preconditions Comments on Steve Latham

Morales, Leticia

doi:10.1093/phe/phv035

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“…Those sources of security are, actually, ones that are of value in any circumstance: predictable and sufficient income, effective and accessible healthcare and policing guided by the rule of law. These are mechanisms of collective risk-reduction (see discussion in Morales, 2016) that are valuable in most or all circumstances precisely because they are essential to the satisfaction of basic needs. They ought to be realized differently, but their value is universal and public opinion shifts in favour of recognizing the value of the NHS, of UBI and of essential workers reflects the honing of people's understanding of their core interests while exposed to threat.…”

Section: Fear and (Un)predictabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

In defence of fear: COVID-19, crises and democracy

Degerman

Flinders

Johnson

2020

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosoph

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The COVID-19 crisis has served not just to instil fear in the populace but to highlight the importance of fear as a motivating dynamic in politics. The gradual emergence of political-philosophical approaches calling for concern for 'positive' emotions may have made sense under non-pandemic conditions. Now, however, describing fear in the face of a deadly pandemic as 'irrational' or born of 'ignorance' seems 'irrational' and 'ignorant'. In this article, we draw upon the work of John Gray and behavioural science to present a defence of fear. We show how the pandemic has highlighted deficits in the work of four thinkers highly critical of fear: Martha Nussbaum, Zygmunt Bauman, Hannah Arendt and Sara Ahmed. We argue that, if such approaches are to be of value in anything other than optimal conditions, then they have to acknowledge the fundamental role of fear in helping human beings to pursue fundamental interests.

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Section: Fear and (Un)predictabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%