{"title":"Biotechnology, Ethics and the Politics of Cloning","authors":"Steven Best, D. Kellner","doi":"10.1080/1085566022000022128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566022000022128","url":null,"abstract":"As the debates over cloning and stem cell research indicate, issues raised by biotechnology combine research into the genetic sciences, perspectives and contexts articulated by the social sciences, and the ethical and anthropological concerns of philosophy. Consequently, we argue that intervening in the debates over biotechnology require supradisciplinary critical philosophy and social theory to illuminate the problems and their stakes. More specifically, we will demonstrate problems with the cloning of animals that for now render the cloning of humans unacceptable. In addition, we take on arguments for and against stem cell research and contend that it contains positive potential for medical advances that should not be blocked by problematic conservative positions. Nonetheless, we believe that the entire realm of biotechnology is fraught with dangers and problems that require careful study and democratic debate of key ethical and political issues.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124117262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post-modernism, the Return to Ethics and the Crisis of Socialist Values","authors":"Chamsy Ojeili","doi":"10.1080/1085566022000022100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566022000022100","url":null,"abstract":"Socialist orthodoxy has been eclipsed as a transformatory project for the establishment of the good life. Here, ethics and politics slid beneath statist administrative goals, or socialists simply adopted liberal values. However, liberalism has not achieved complete hegemony, and is open to a number of objections - its individualism, its partial conception of freedom, the obvious failures of the market, and the exclusions of liberal democracy. On the other hand, communitarian particularism is also found wanting. Neither does post-modernism provide a solution to the current crisis of values, nor does it simply replace socialism as an ethical horizon for those committed to emancipatory values. I argue that some of the problems of these paradigms can be overcome by alternatives from within the libertarian tradition. In particular, propounding an 'ethics of emancipation' - equal freedom for all, achieved through solidaristic revolutionising of macro social structures - libertarians have sought the establishmen...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115563161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Justice and Good Governance in African Traditional Society","authors":"O. S. Nwosu","doi":"10.1080/1085566022000022137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566022000022137","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is two-fold: to retrieve African democratic rationalism using the Igbo schematic; based on this, to challenge the feasibility of liberal democracy as a veritable model for justice and good governance, irrespective of the ecological specificity and historical lessons of Africa. In this context, the paper examines the ethics of justice and good governance in Igbo traditional society.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128009629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Democratic Liberatory Ethics","authors":"Takis Fotopoulos","doi":"10.1080/1085566022000022092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566022000022092","url":null,"abstract":"The object of this article is threefold. First, to critically assess the approaches to liberatory ethics particularly those developed in early modernity which aimed at deriving an 'objectively' grounded liberatory ethics. Second, to explore the reasons why today's liberatory ethics should avoid both the Scylla of 'objective' ethics as well as the Charybdis of irrationalist ethics or unbounded moral relativism. Third, to show that a democratic liberatory ethics, which could only be derived through a process of democratic rationalism, should necessarily express those moral values which are intrinsically compatible to the democratic institutions themselves.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122897967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Global 'War' of the Transnational Elite","authors":"Takis Fotopoulos","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148589","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to show that the so-called 'war' against terrorism that was launched by the transnational elite in the aftermath of the events of 11 September, like the previous 'wars' of the transnational elite (Iraq, Yugoslavia), aims at securing the stability of the New World Order (NWO) which is founded on capitalist neoliberal globalisation and representative 'democracy' by crushing any perceived threats against it. However, this is also a new type of war. Unlike the previous 'wars', this is a global and permanent war--a global war, because its targets are not only specific 'rogue' regimes, which are not fully integrated in the NWO or simply do not 'toe the line', but any kind of regime or social group and movement that resists the NWO: from the Palestinian up to the anti-globalisation movements; and permanent war, because it is bound to continue for as long as the NWO and the systemic and state violence associated with it, to protect the present huge asymmetry of power between and within ...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115160601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The politics of recognition versus the politics of hatred","authors":"A. Gare","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148606","url":null,"abstract":"Hatred of America expressed in the 11 September attack is more than matched by the hatred by Americans for Islamists expressed in the war on Afghanistan, the War against Terror and the threatened wars against the 'Axis of Evil'. It is argued here that there is a pattern of self-reinforcing hatred operating in the world set in motion by the actions of the United States, particularly by George Bush Snr, and embraced and used by George Bush Jr to reinforce and further develop this pattern. To oppose this it is necessary to understand how hatred is generated, how this system operates and how Bush is exploiting it, and then to provide an alternative. It is argued this requires a new story of civilisation as the quest for justice understood as true recognition to oppose to the myths based on hatred promulgated by Bush. In terms of this story, the extreme economic, social, political and military policies of Bush and the myths used to justify them should be recognised for what they are, the challenge of barbarism...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"50 16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131244263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If You Want Affluence, Prepare for War","authors":"T. Trainer","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148615","url":null,"abstract":"The economy underlying the way of life taken for granted in Western industrial, affluent-consumer societies is an imperial system involving extreme injustice, oppression and use of terror. After documenting this situation at some length, attention is given to the general issue of affluence, resource scarcity and peace and security in a world of limited resources, severe inequality and obsession with economic growth and ever-rising living standards. It is argued that peace and security cannot be expected unless the rich and over-consuming countries undertake a fundamental, enormous (and improbable) shift away from their commitments to affluence and growth and towards The Simpler Way.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132828612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Militarism and Terrorism: The Deadly Cycle","authors":"Carl E. Boggs","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148598","url":null,"abstract":"The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, destined to strongly influence world politics well into the 21st century, can be understood as part of a larger dialectic linking US militarism and what has become global terrorism. This destructive cycle is likely to deepen as elements of American superpower hegemony--economic, political, cultural and military--become more consolidated, and as the USA continues to pursue its unprecedented and ill-defined war against terrorism. The goal of US ruling elites is to make the world increasingly accessible to capital investment, free trade and corporate domination while simultaneously closing off viable alternatives to the neoliberal New World Order. Here terrorism in its different manifestations amounts to both a striking back at US empire--what might be seen as an especially virulent form of blowback--and the unintended relegitimation of this empire as it helps to bolster the war economy and security state. One of the debilitating consequences of the militarism-terr...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"5 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115732129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hardt and Negri's Empire : A New Communist Manifesto or a Reformist Welcome to Neoliberal Globalisation?","authors":"Takis Fotopoulos, A. Gezerlis","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148633","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000) has generally been characterised by the establishment press, but also by some in the Left, as a kind of new 'Communist Manifesto'. However, a careful examination of the content of the book makes it clear that, far from having any radical implications similar to those of the original Manifesto , Empire should better be characterised as an 'objective' welcome to neoliberal globalisation.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117091590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argentina on Fire: People's Rebellion Facing the Deep Crisis of the Neoliberal Market Economy","authors":"G. Galafassi","doi":"10.1080/10855660220148642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660220148642","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129319955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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