Michael Walzer (3 March 1935) is one of America's leading political philosophers. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and editor of Dissent, a left-wing quarterly of politics and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. He is also a contributing editor to The New Republic and a member of the editorial board of Philosophy & Public Affairs. To date he has written 27 books and has published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews. He is a member of several philosophical organizations including the American Philosophical Society.
Michael is the older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Walzer is usually identified as one of the leading proponents of the "Communitarian" position in political theory, along with Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel. Like Sandel and MacIntyre, Walzer is not completely comfortable with this label. He has, however, long argued that political theory must be grounded in the traditions and culture of particular societies and opposed what he sees to be the excessive abstraction of political philosophy. His most important intellectual contributions include a revitalization of just war theory that insists on the importance of ethics in wartime while eschewing pacifism; the theory of "complex equality," which holds that the metric of just equality is not some single material or moral good, but rather that egalitarian justice demands that each good be distributed according to its social meaning, and that no good (like money or political power) be allowed to dominate or distort the distribution of goods in other spheres; and an argument that justice is primarily a moral standard within particular nations and societies, not one that can be developed in a universalized abstraction.
In April 2008, Walzer received the prestigious Spinoza Lens, a bi-annual prize for ethics in The Netherlands.
发表于2024-12-23
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翻译或许有点问题,拗口 写得真是不错啊。。。 很明白世事的作者,表述得也很清楚
评分翻译或许有点问题,拗口 写得真是不错啊。。。 很明白世事的作者,表述得也很清楚
评分翻译或许有点问题,拗口 写得真是不错啊。。。 很明白世事的作者,表述得也很清楚
评分翻译或许有点问题,拗口 写得真是不错啊。。。 很明白世事的作者,表述得也很清楚
评分《正义诸领域:为多元主义和平等一辩》 必需英文本对参。 这本书与Nozick的《无政府、国家和乌托邦》一样,源自Walzer和Nozick两人与1970-1971年在哈佛开的一门“资本主义与社会主义”的辩论课程。 这本书的一个特点是弥漫着历史感和睿智的洞见,对寻求一...
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Spheres of Justice, with the subtitle "In defence of pluralism and equality", is the title of a book written by Michael Walzer.
In it, Walzer argues in favour of an idea he calls "complex equality", and against the view that goods with different meaning and content can be lumped together into the larger category of primary goods, as is advocated by John Rawls, in his A Theory of Justice from 1971. The book might be considered an attempt, from a liberal starting point, to bridge some of the disagreements between liberals and communitarians in political philosophy.
simple equality vs complex equality; dominance vs monopoly
评分Benhabib把Walzer归类为社群主义者,并指出他和Taylor等人有的一个问题:在强调社会整体价值重塑的integrationism和强调平等政治参与的participatory ethics之间立场不明晰。因此,在读Walzer的时候,要辩证看待他的观点,批判integrationist的部分(即"shared understandings" of social goods),借鉴participationism的部分(即simple vs. complex equality那里)。(虽然我觉得Benhabib有把Habermas视作进步主义代表从而promote a linear progressive narrative的嫌疑)
评分一本很有趣也很奇怪的作品,一定是当代经典,因为1.具体写出了罗尔斯没能谈及的不同领域的正义分配原则;2.领域的划分虽然有的时候显得有些随机,但复杂平等和反支配与垄断的思路在框架上非常清晰;3.有非常具体的论证,加上不知道从哪儿来的一堆例子。奇怪的部分在于:1.整本书其实都没讨论结社的问题,而这似乎恰好是多元主义的核心议题,而结社的一个目的似乎就是跨越正义的领域表达诉求或者修订领域的边界;2.试图讨论正义问题,但其实缺乏一个明确的正义定义,因此使得领域的划分显得有些随意——为什么空闲时间是个正义而不是善的问题?;3.论证的方式试图给正反两方都足够的意见和处理,往往到最后变得结论不明确。沃尔泽追求流畅的文风的代价是很多论证因为过于依赖直觉而并不能称其为论证,不过结论而言,我似乎还和他蛮契合。
评分这种解决方案及其困难恰使其研究与罗尔斯的《正义论》一样有了peace study的色彩。不过对每个领域独到的分析,以及偶尔出现的幽默彩蛋还是让这本书充满惊喜
评分一本很有趣也很奇怪的作品,一定是当代经典,因为1.具体写出了罗尔斯没能谈及的不同领域的正义分配原则;2.领域的划分虽然有的时候显得有些随机,但复杂平等和反支配与垄断的思路在框架上非常清晰;3.有非常具体的论证,加上不知道从哪儿来的一堆例子。奇怪的部分在于:1.整本书其实都没讨论结社的问题,而这似乎恰好是多元主义的核心议题,而结社的一个目的似乎就是跨越正义的领域表达诉求或者修订领域的边界;2.试图讨论正义问题,但其实缺乏一个明确的正义定义,因此使得领域的划分显得有些随意——为什么空闲时间是个正义而不是善的问题?;3.论证的方式试图给正反两方都足够的意见和处理,往往到最后变得结论不明确。沃尔泽追求流畅的文风的代价是很多论证因为过于依赖直觉而并不能称其为论证,不过结论而言,我似乎还和他蛮契合。
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