Green, Alex orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-2852 (2022) The Importance of Dystopian Hypotheticals:Towards an Ethical Turn in Liberal Political Philosophy. Law, Technology and Humans. pp. 60-80. ISSN 2652-4074
Abstract
This paper argues that liberal philosophy underestimates the importance of political ethics, which I define as the question of how individual citizens should comport themselves politically under largely normal conditions. Using three case studies from popular dystopian science fiction as ‘intuition pumps’, I contend that the behaviour of such individuals, both discretely and collectively speaking, has significant causal potency when it comes to contemporary politics. Upon this basis, I diagnose as pathological the faith that liberal philosophers place in the power of institutional arrangements to curtail human behaviour. I conclude that liberal philosophy should embrace an ‘ethical turn’, in pursuit of which I make some indicative recommendations as to what such a development might comprise.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author/s 2022 |
Keywords: | Law and Popular Culture,Political Philosophy,Liberalism,Hannah Arendt,Populism,Political ethics |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Law School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 17 Apr 2023 13:40 |
Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 11:03 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.2402 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5204/lthj.2402 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198264 |
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