Ethical Citizenship British Idealism and the Politics of Recognition

by Brooks, Thom

• ISBN13: 9781137329950
• ISBN10: 1137329955
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781137329967
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-21
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Citizenship has come under increasing strain in the face of globalization. Our world gets ever smaller while it sometimes seems our borders are becoming ever more closed. What is citizenship and how can be it ethical? Should citizens owe each other special duties denied to non-citizens? How might theories about citizenship impact on our practices?

Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today in the first full length examination of this topic. Ethical citizenship is a communitarian relationship between members of a community based around a shared conception of the common good first defended by British Idealists. This book explores its historical roots, contemporary relevance and application to international politics in an engaging work by leading international scholars bringing together theory and practice.

 

Author Biography

Thom Brooks is Reader in Law at Durham University, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy. His books include Punishment (2012) and Hegel's Political Philosophy (2nd edition, 2013).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Introduction; Thom Brooks
PART I: HISTORICAL ROOTS
2. The Metaphysics and Ethics of T. H. Green's Idea of Persons and Citizens; Rex Martin
3. Beyond Dualistic Constructions of Citizenship: T. H. Green's Idea of Ethical Citizenship as Mutual Membership; Avital Simhony
4. Idealism and Ethical Citizenship; Leslie Armour
5. Mill, Moral Suasion, and Coercion; Greg Claeys
PART II: CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
6. Ethical Citizenship, the Liberalism of the British Idealists, and Diverse Societies; Robert Kocis
7. Ethical Citizenship and the Stakeholder Society; Thom Brooks
8. British Idealism and Education for Citizenship; William J. Mander
9. Rawls, Collingwood, and the Roles of Political Philosophy for Ethical Citizenship; Owen James Fellows
PART III: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
10. 'Who is My Neighbour?' T. H. Green and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Ethical Citizenship; Matthew Hann
11. Do We Owe More to Fellow Nationals? The Particular and Universal Ethics of Bosanquet's General Will and Miller's Public Culture; Maria Dimova-Cookson
12. Idealism, the Common Good and Environmental Virtues; James Connelly
Index