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Public Philosophy (public + philosophy)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Law and Criminology50%
Humanities and Social Sciences25%

Selected Abstracts

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality and Politics , By Michael J. Sandel

JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 2 2009
Philip A. Quadrio
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics , By Michael J. Sandel

RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2007
Timothy M. Renick
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Invitation to Pluralist Public Philosophy

ANALYSES OF SOCIAL ISSUES & PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 1 2009
Pelin Kesebir
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Beyond Constitutionalism: The Search for a European Political Imagination

EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, Issue 1 2001
Ian Ward
Two recent books, Joseph Weiler's The Constitution of Europe and Larry Siedentop's Democracy in Europe, seek to address one of the defining issues in contemporary European legal studies; the search for a European public philosophy. Both site their critiques within a particular jurisprudential tradition, the modernist; one that is bound up with anxieties about legitimacy and constitutionalism. This review article suggests that the ,new' Europe has been too easily distracted by the lures of constitutionalism, and more particularly by the temptations of Treaties. Public philosophies are not found in Treaty articles. Rather, a public philosophy is a state of mind, a product of the political imagination. And it is the absence of such an imagination which lies at the root of contemporary concerns regarding constitutionalism and legitimacy; the concerns which underpin Weiler's and Siedentop's books. A discussion of these books, in the first two parts of this article, is followed by a discussion of Godfried Wilhelm Leibniz's ,universal' jurisprudence. It is suggested that such a jurisprudence is better able to furnish a public philosophy for the ,new' Europe; just as, indeed, it was for the ,old' Europe. Moreover, such a jurisprudence is far more than a mere theory of laws and constitutions. Leibniz's jurisprudence requires that we think, not merely ,beyond' sovereignty, or even beyond democracy, but beyond constitutionalism. [source]

A Decade of Europe?

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 2 2003
Some Reflections on an Aspiration
This article suggests that Europe faces four primary challenges today. The first relates to democracy, as all the anxieties about the ,democratic deficit' in Community are writ even larger in the Union. A second issue is that of liberal legalism. Lawyers have long presumed that the ,new' Europe has been integrated ,through' law. This article suggests that the role of law is of far less importance to the future of the Union. A third problem, perhaps the most pressing, relates to enlargement. Is the ,new' Europe fully prepared for the inevitable shock that will follow the much-vaunted ,big bang'? Finally, there is the overarching problem of a continuing lack of ethos, or public philosophy, underpinning public life in the ,new' Europe. [source]

New Labour and the Public Sector in Britain

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 5 2001
Mark Bevir
In Britain, New Labour has a distinctive public philosophy that contains an ideal often found in the socialist tradition,that is, citizens attaining moral personhood within and through the community. Old Labour generally sought to realize such an ideal in a universal welfare state characterized by a command form of service delivery. New Labour has responded to dilemmas, akin to those highlighted by the New Right, by transforming this model of the public sector. It conceives of the state as an enabler acting in partnership with citizens and other organizations, delivering services through networks characterized by relationships of trust. We explore this distinctive public philosophy through its ethical vision and then its implications for welfare reform and the delivery of public services. [source]