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Gastvortrag am 31.05.2023, 18 Uhr c.t., PH 20
Prof. Dr. John Christman:
Freedom, Recognition, and the Social Structure of Human Action
Prof. Dr. John Christman (Pennsymvania State University):
Freedom, Recognition, and the Social Structure of Human Action
Abstract
Debates about the best way to understand “freedom” as a fundamental social value are complex and multi-faceted. One question at the center of these debates is whether my liberty requires more than
merely the forbearance of others not to interfere with my actions or not to dominate me but whether my freedom requires also positive social contributions by other citizens? In particular, does my freedom require that my agency and achievements be somehow recognized by others as at least minimally valuable? Theorists in the Hegelian tradition, most notably Axel Honneth, have maintained that social recognition of a particular sort is indeed central to the idea of social freedom. In this lecture I want to explore this question and in particular to defend the claim that it is the essentially social nature of human action that ties freedom to social recognition. Viewing the issue this way helps to motivate a conception of social freedom that contrasts with standard liberal, neo-republican, and (even) Hegelian conceptions of that idea and one that better captures the fundamental value of liberty in contexts where people fight most vociferously for it.
Workshop am 01.06.2023, 14-18 Uhr mit Prof. Dr. John Christman
Social Identities, Political Cooperation, and Historical Injustice
mit Prof. Dr. John Christman
Social Identities, Political Cooperation, and Historical Injustice
Abstract:
Topic of the workshop: the practical and theoretical challenges that arise from the need to establish socially embedded, narratively structured, senses of ourselves as well as the need to create conditions of meaningful social cooperation and inclusion that allow people to “feel at home in the world”. The challenge arises when we acknowledge the ways that historical and ongoing patterns of oppression and violence undercut the possibility of (re-)establishing those identities and relations.
I propose that we spend the first part of the discussion focused on the individual case, discussing the paper I sent. During the second part of the workshop, we can discuss how this question of individ-ual repair of social identity is reiterated at the social level, in particular in envisioning the possibility of social cooperation and collective identity required for democratic practices. For this topic, I plan to discuss some ideas in Rousseau that relate to this question. In his theory of freedom and democ-racy, he requires a level of social unity and collective identity that, he argues, requires a collective embrace of the "founding myth" of a society. However, in places like the United States, and else-where, there has been increased calls to re-examine those "founding myths" to take account of the injustices inherent in the structure of current social institutions (the Black Lives Matter protests and the "1619 Project" for example). What is at issue -- in a way parallel to the individual case -- is
how the re-establishment of a social identity is possible in light of the rifts and injuries of the past.
Für den Workshop ist eine Anmeldung notwendig, da im Vorfeld Textauszüge für die Diskussion zirkuliert werden. Anmeldung und Rückfragen an Anne Clausen.