Juridical Empowerment: Empowering the Impoverished as Rights-Asserters
The idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant’s idea of rightful honour. According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights (juridical empow...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
2023
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| Στο/Στη: |
Ethical theory and moral practice
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 26, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 237-254 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | NCC Κοινωνική Ηθική NCD Πολιτική Ηθική VA Φιλοσοφία ΧΑ Δίκαιο ZC Πολιτική |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Poverty
B Εξουσιοδότηση B Self-respect B Human Rights B Political agency B Rightful honour |
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| Σύνοψη: | The idea of empowerment has gained a significant role in the discourse of poverty. I outline a restricted conception of empowerment inspired by Kant’s idea of rightful honour. According to this conception, empowerment consists in enabling individuals to assert their own human rights (juridical empowerment). I apply this conception to impoverished persons and argue that it is crucial to their self-respect, their so-called ‘power-[from-]within,’ and their political agency, and has a teleological primacy regarding our efforts to reduce poverty. I also defend the idea that there is a moral right to this form of empowerment and a corresponding duty to empower the impoverished as rights-asserters. Juridical empowerment will be compatible with a pluralism of substantive accounts of the moral wrongs of poverty and with broader conceptions of empowerment. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-022-10295-8 |
