NDLI: Choosing Between Capitalisms: Habermas, Ethics and Politics

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Author	Keat, Russell
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	In Between Facts and Norms Habermas both accepts the place of distinctively ethical considerations about ‘the good’ in political deliberation, and advances a particular view of the nature and justification of ethical judgments. Whilst welcoming the former, this paper criticises the latter, with its focus on issues of identity and self-understanding, and suggests instead a broadly Aristotelian alternative. The argument proceeds, first, through a detailed engagement with Habermas’s theoretical claims about ethical reasoning in politics, in which it is argued that he fails to show how different ethical possibilities can be critically evaluated, and second, through the analysis of a practical example, that of a political choice being made between different kinds of capitalism. Here the paper draws on recent work in comparative political economy on the institutional differences between varieties of capitalism, and uses this to contrast the implications of Habermas’s conception of ethics, according to which what would matter is the congruence between economic institutions and a political community’s historically shaped identity, with those of its preferred alternative, which requires a comparison between the different conceptions of the good that each kind of capitalism institutionally favours, and collective judgments about their respective contributions to human well-being.
Starting Page	355
Ending Page	376
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13564765
Journal	Res Publica
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728692
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-08-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Habermas Ethics Politics Capitalism Institutions Goods Philosophy Political Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Law

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