Vulnerability, Equality, and the State

脆弱性、平等和国家

• 批准号: 509480936
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christine Straehle
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Praktische Philosophie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/509480936?language=en
• 关键词: Vulnerability; Equality; State

Few philosophers have developed a theory of justice that combines the key tenets of liberalism, i.e. the promise of equality and liberty, with a serious consideration of the fact of human vulnerability as a demand of justice. To remedy this lack is the motivation of our project. Building on the critique of the atomistic model of the person, this project will provide an analytically rigorous account of the obligations that the state has towards individuals qua equal members of society and in light of their human vulnerability. We will develop a vulnerability-based liberal theory of justice to help determine what resources vulnerable persons qua equal members of society should have access to, and to define the institutional responses that should be adopted in order to address the issue of vulnerability. In a second step, we will examine what kind of public policies would be best suited to lessen, ameliorate, and compensate for the vulnerability of persons in view of realizing the principles of justice and the ideal of moral equality. We will make three distinct contributions: 1) Conceptual: we will investigate and define the core concepts of vulnerability, moral equality, social equality, and how these concepts define the parameters of social justice. 2) Normative: our aim is to formulate principles of justice for a society of equals by reflecting on the duties of the state arising from different kinds of vulnerability. 3) Applied: we will investigate what public policies are more appropriate to ensure that citizens are able to stand in relations of equality to others in society. In this part of the project, we will analyse the implications that our theory of justice has for the kinds of social arrangements that the state ought to put in place in order to discharge its obligations towards its citizens.

很少有哲学家发展出一种正义理论，将自由主义的关键原则，即平等和自由的承诺，与对人类脆弱这一事实的认真考虑结合起来，作为对正义的要求。弥补这一不足是我们项目的动机。在对人的原子模型的批判的基础上，这个项目将提供一个严谨的分析，说明国家对作为社会平等成员的个人的义务，并考虑到他们的人性脆弱性。我们将发展一种以脆弱性为基础的自由主义司法理论，以帮助确定弱势群体作为平等的社会成员应该获得哪些资源，并确定为解决脆弱性问题应采取的体制反应。在第二步中，我们将审查什么样的公共政策最适合于减轻、改善和补偿人们在实现正义原则和道德平等理想方面的脆弱性。我们将做出三个不同的贡献：1)概念：我们将调查和定义脆弱性，道德平等，社会平等的核心概念，以及这些概念如何定义社会正义的参数。2)规范性：我们的目标是通过反思不同类型的脆弱性所产生的国家责任，为一个平等的社会制定正义原则。3)应用：我们将研究哪些公共政策更适合确保公民能够在社会中与其他人建立平等的关系。在本课程的这一部分，我们将分析正义理论对社会安排的影响，即国家为了履行其对公民的义务而应该实施的社会安排。