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PWM-PT-HS2: Us, Them, and Me: Collectives, Individuals, and Justice- Dozent/in
- Moritz Schulz
- Angaben
- Seminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Mi 12:00 - 14:00, FMA/01.20
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Registration:
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Assessment:
Essays. Details about assignments will be provided in the first session. Please feel free to contact the instructor should you require further information upfront.
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- Inhalt
- Appeals to collective responsibility are a staple in contemporary political discourse: Robert Habeck asks us to play our part in jointly mastering the energy crisis; together we have to steer clear of toppling our health services in another autumn with Covid-19; and if we can avert a dramatic climate crisis, we can only do so collectively. Elsewhere, we lament structural discrimination even where few individuals pursue a discriminatory agenda, or we seek to hold businesses accountable for human rights violations in their supply chains. In light of such talk, we might wonder: What is it to be collectively responsible for something at all? What is it for us to have duties of justice together? And where does our individual action enter the picture again?
Setting aside the loose talk of political discourse, political theorists likewise seem to have a stake in understanding the peculiarities of collectives, for it pertains to what their job description (and that of social scientists more broadly) amounts to. At first glance, ethics and normative political theory are tightly connected in that they share a concern with justice and moral reasoning in answering practical questions: What is it that we should do? What is it that we owe to each other? Yet the two seem to have somewhat of their own subject matter nonetheless. Typically, then, scholars start to pry them apart by saying that in some way, political theory is concerned with collective decisions whereas ethics is concerned with individual ones. Again, what makes normative questions involving collectives so special appears to be well be worth taking a closer look. Luckily, it is what we are going to do in this seminar.
Over the course of the term, we will tip our toes into several influential current debates about collective agency relevant to political theory. Over the first part, we will lay some conceptual foundations drawing on social ontology and the philosophy of social science: When we are talking about social phenomena beyond the realm of individuals, what actually is it that we may be talking about? Specifically: what are collective agents? What is it for people to act together as opposed to each of them doing something on their own? How do institutions structure individual behaviour? And what makes people belong to a social group – like those of students, Franconians, or people of colour?
Thus equipped, we will turn our attention to normative questions attaching to each type of social entity – and, in particular, to the role individuals retain within them. First, can collective agents (such as certain corporations or NGOs) be responsible for their actions over and above the responsibility of their individual members? And if such agents can have collective obligations, what does that mean for their members? Who actually gets to do the work? Second, we turn to responsibilities we may bear collectively without being an organised group. What, for instance, if we can stage an effective protest against an unjust policy together but no one of us can do it alone? Or what if together we cause a climate crisis to which none of our individual carbon footprints makes any meaningful difference? Third, what does justice demand of us individually within a framework of political institutions? Do we bear any responsibility for our state’s actions? And if so, what should we do if we disapprove of it? Finally, we broaden our scope to less explicit social institutions: what exactly does structural discrimination consist in – and who is responsible for it?
- Empfohlene Literatur
- As a taster, these two scholars would be happy to give you a brief introduction to their field:
Epstein, Brian. 2022. What Is Social Ontology? Social Ontology Research Group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwEhye191OI.
Haan, Niels de. 2020. Introduction to Collective Responsibility. ISOS - International Social Ontology Society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea68p8EAIpg.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Us, Them, and Me: Collectives, Individuals, and Justice
- Credits: 8
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft, insbes. Politische Theorie
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