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The rat race and working time regulation 激烈的竞争和工作时间的规定
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20927894
Malte Jauch
To what extent, if at all, should a just society adopt public policies that regulate and limit the amount of time people work? Attempts to answer this question face a dilemma: Either, we can adopt a laissez-faire view, according to which governments must refrain from imposing working time policies on the labour market. But this view generates a situation in which many citizens experience deep regret about the balance between work and leisure in their lives. Or, we can endorse an interventionist view that advocates government imposition of working time policies. However, such a view appears to be objectionably perfectionist insofar as it imposes on citizens a particular conception of the ideal balance between work and leisure. This article proposes a way out of this dilemma. It shows that the interventionist view can be defended on the anti-perfectionist grounds that this helps address a collective action problem in the labour market – the working time rat race. Employers often use working time as a proxy for their employees’ productivity and commitment. Those who work particularly long hours are often awarded benefits such as raises or promotions or are spared from dismissals. This makes it individually rational for each worker to work extra hours in an attempt to outcompete colleagues. However, if many workers pursue this strategy, it loses its effectiveness. Workers with preferences for more leisure have a claim to state intervention to remove the rat race when this doesn’t impose disproportionate harm on third parties.
一个公正的社会应该在多大程度上采取公共政策来规范和限制人们的工作时间?试图回答这个问题面临着两难境地:要么,我们可以采取一种自由放任的观点,根据这种观点,政府必须避免在劳动力市场上强加工作时间政策。但这种观点造成了一种局面,即许多公民对生活中工作与休闲的平衡深感遗憾。或者,我们可以支持一种干预主义观点,主张政府强制实施工作时间政策。然而,这种观点似乎是令人反感的完美主义,因为它强加给公民一种关于工作与休闲之间理想平衡的特定概念。本文提出了一种摆脱这种困境的方法。它表明,干预主义观点可以在反完美主义的基础上得到辩护,即这有助于解决劳动力市场上的集体行动问题——工作时间的激烈竞争。雇主经常用工作时间来衡量员工的生产力和敬业度。那些工作时间特别长的人通常会获得加薪或升职等福利,或者不会被解雇。这使得每个员工加班以超越同事成为一种理性。然而,如果许多员工采用这种策略,它就会失去效果。喜欢更多休闲的员工有理由要求政府干预,以消除这种激烈的竞争,前提是这不会对第三方造成不成比例的伤害。
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引用次数: 4
Against hands-on neutrality 反对亲力亲为中立
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20924679
Bouke de Vries
In recent years, several theorists have defended a form of neutrality that seeks to equalise the benefits that state policies bestow upon citizens’ conceptions of the good life. For example, when state policies confer special benefits upon a conception that revolves around a particular culture, religion or type of sports, other cultures, religions or types of sports might be due compensation. This article argues that this kind of neutrality – which I refer to as ‘hands-on neutrality’ – cannot be vindicated, whether it takes a resourcist form or welfarist form. After explaining why states cannot simply avoid bestowing unequal advantages upon citizens’ conceptions of the good life, I identify several versions of hands-on neutrality and show that all of them fail to respect the moral equality of citizens. (In so doing, however, I do find that a different form of neutrality is appropriately applied under a more limited set of conditions, which is lottery-based.) I conclude by showing that in cases where theories of hands-on neutrality have intuitive force, more plausible rival principles can account for our intuitions.
近年来,一些理论家为一种中立性辩护,这种中立性寻求平衡国家政策赋予公民美好生活观念的好处。例如,当国家政策赋予围绕特定文化、宗教或体育类型的概念特殊利益时,其他文化、宗教或体育类型可能是适当的补偿。本文认为,这种中立——我称之为“实践中立”——无论采取资源主义形式还是福利主义形式,都无法证明是正确的。在解释了为什么国家不能简单地避免赋予公民对美好生活的概念不平等的好处之后,我列举了几个版本的实践中立,并表明它们都没有尊重公民的道德平等。(然而,在这样做的过程中,我发现一种不同形式的中立性适用于更有限的条件,即基于彩票的条件。)我的结论是,在实践中立理论具有直觉力量的情况下,更合理的竞争原则可以解释我们的直觉。
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引用次数: 1
Complicity and hypocrisy 共谋和虚伪
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20924666
N. Cornell, Amy J. Sepinwall
This article offers a justification for accommodating claims of conscience. The standard justification points to the pain that acting against one’s conscience entails. But that defense cannot make sense of the state’s refusal to accommodate individuals where the law interferes with their deeply meaningful but nonmoral projects. An alternative justification, we argue, arises once one recognizes the connection between conscience and moral address: One’s lived moral convictions determine when and with what force one can hold others to account. Acting against one’s convictions can undermine one’s standing to blame others who act in similar ways. When the state compels someone to act against conscience, it renders her complicit in conduct she takes to be wrong and thereby impairs her ability to condemn similar conduct in the future, in a manner akin to the hypocrite. The reason the state should not compel people to act against conscience, then, is that doing so would undercut their moral standing.
这篇文章为容纳良心要求提供了理由。标准的辩护指出违背良心的行为所带来的痛苦。但是,当法律干涉了个人意义深远但非道德的项目时,国家拒绝接纳他们,这种辩护是说不通的。我们认为,一旦认识到良心和道德演讲之间的联系,就会出现另一种理由:一个人的道德信念决定了他何时以及以何种力量让他人承担责任。违背自己的信念会损害自己的地位,从而无法指责与自己行为相似的人。当国家强迫某人违背良心行事时,它使她成为她认为错误的行为的同谋,从而削弱了她将来谴责类似行为的能力,就像伪君子一样。因此,国家不应该强迫人们违背良心行事的原因是,这样做会削弱他们的道德地位。
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引用次数: 0
Introduction to Symposium on Conscience, Consent, Growth, and Efficiency 良心、同意、成长和效率研讨会导言
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20934897
Andrew J. Williams
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引用次数: 0
On the value of economic growth 关于经济增长的价值
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X19889123
J. Rose
Must a society aim indefinitely for continued economic growth? Proponents of economic growth advance three central challenges to the idea that a society, having attained high levels of income and wealth, may justly cease to pursue further economic growth: if environmentally sustainable and the gains fairly distributed, first, continued economic growth could make everyone within a society and globally, and especially the worst off, progressively better off; second, the pursuit of economic growth spurs ongoing innovation, which enhances people’s opportunities and protects a society against future risks; and third, continued economic growth fosters attitudes of openness, tolerance, and generosity, which are essential to the functioning of a liberal democratic society. This article grants these challenges’ normative foundations, to show that, even if one accepts their underlying premises as requirements of justice, a society may still justly cease to aim for economic growth, so long as it continues to aim for and realize gains on other dimensions. I argue that, while continued economic growth might instrumentally serve valuable ends, it is not necessary for their realization, as a society can achieve these ends through other means.
一个社会必须无限期地追求持续的经济增长吗?经济增长的支持者对一个社会在达到高收入和财富水平后,可以正当地停止追求进一步的经济增长的观点提出了三个核心挑战:如果环境是可持续的,并且收益是公平分配的,首先,持续的经济增长可以使社会内和全球的每个人,尤其是最贫穷的人,逐渐变得更好;第二,对经济增长的追求促进了持续创新,创新为人们提供了更多的机会,并为社会抵御未来风险提供了保障;第三,持续的经济增长培养了开放、宽容和慷慨的态度,这对自由民主社会的运作至关重要。本文承认这些挑战的规范基础,以表明,即使人们接受其基本前提作为正义的要求,一个社会仍然可以正当地停止以经济增长为目标,只要它继续以其他方面的目标为目标并实现收益。我认为,虽然持续的经济增长可能有助于实现有价值的目标,但它并不是实现这些目标的必要条件,因为一个社会可以通过其他手段实现这些目标。
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引用次数: 7
Morals from rationality alone? Some doubts 道德仅仅来自理性?一些疑虑
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-02-27 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20906616
J. Messina, David Wiens
Contractarians aim to derive moral principles from the dictates of instrumental rationality alone. It is well-known that contractarian moral theories struggle to identify normative principles that are both uniquely rational and morally compelling. Michael Moehler’s recent book, Minimal Morality, seeks to avoid these difficulties by developing a novel ‘two-level’ social contract theory, which restricts the scope of contractarian morality to cases of deep and persistent moral disagreement. Yet Moehler remains ambitious, arguing that a restricted version of Kant’s categorical imperative is a uniquely rational principle of conflict resolution. We develop a formal model of Moehler’s informal game-theoretic argument, which reconstructs a valid argument for Moehler’s conclusion. This model, in turn, enables us to expose how a successful argument for Moehler’s contractarian principle rests on assumptions that can only be justified by subtle yet significant departures from the standard conception of rationality. We thus extend our understanding of familiar contractarian difficulties by showing how they arise even if we restrict the scope of contractarian morality to a domain where its application seems both promising and necessary.
契约主义者的目标是仅仅从工具理性的指令中推导出道德原则。众所周知,契约主义道德理论难以确定既具有独特理性又具有道德说服力的规范性原则。迈克尔·莫勒(Michael Moehler)的新书《最低道德》(Minimal Morality)试图通过发展一种新颖的“两级”社会契约理论来避免这些困难,该理论将契约主义道德的范围限制在深刻而持久的道德分歧的情况下。然而,莫勒仍然雄心勃勃,他认为康德绝对命令的限制版本是解决冲突的唯一理性原则。本文建立了Moehler非正式博弈论论证的形式化模型,重构了Moehler结论的有效论证。反过来,这个模型使我们能够揭示莫勒契约原则的成功论证是如何建立在假设之上的,而这些假设只能通过微妙而重大地偏离理性的标准概念来证明。因此,即使我们将契约主义道德的范围限制在一个似乎既有希望又有必要的领域,我们也会通过展示它们是如何产生的来扩展我们对熟悉的契约主义困难的理解。
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引用次数: 0
What are the chances you’re right about everything? An epistemic challenge for modern partisanship 你每件事都对的几率有多大?对现代党派关系的认知挑战
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20901346
Hrishikesh Joshi
The American political landscape exhibits significant polarization. People’s political beliefs cluster around two main camps. However, many of the issues with respect to which these two camps disagree seem to be rationally orthogonal. This feature raises an epistemic challenge for the political partisan. If she is justified in consistently adopting the party line, it must be true that her side is reliable on the issues that are the subject of disagreements. It would then follow that the other side is anti-reliable with respect to a host of orthogonal political issues. Yet, it is difficult to find a psychologically plausible explanation for why one side would get things reliably wrong with respect to a wide range of orthogonal issues. While this project’s empirical discussion focuses on the US context, the argument generalizes to any situation where political polarization exists on a sufficiently large number of orthogonal claims.
美国的政治格局呈现出明显的两极分化。人们的政治信仰主要围绕两大阵营。然而,这两个阵营不同意的许多问题似乎在理性上是正交的。这一特征对政治党派提出了认知上的挑战。如果她一贯采取党的路线是合理的,那么她的立场在存在分歧的问题上一定是可靠的。这样一来,另一方在一系列互不相关的政治问题上就不可靠了。然而,很难找到一个心理学上合理的解释,来解释为什么一方在一系列正交问题上总是出错。虽然这个项目的实证讨论集中在美国的背景下,但这个论点可以推广到任何政治两极分化存在于足够多的正交主张的情况。
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引用次数: 11
Political irrationality, utopianism, and democratic theory 政治非理性、乌托邦主义和民主理论
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X19889108
Aaron Ancell
People tend to be biased and irrational about politics. Should this constrain what our normative theories of democracy can require? David Estlund argues that the answer is ‘no’. He contends that even if such facts show that the requirements of a normative theory are very unlikely to be met, this need not imply that the theory is unduly unrealistic. I argue that the application of Estlund’s argument to political irrationality depends on a false presupposition: mainly, that being rational about politics is something people could easily do if they tried. Since the empirical evidence shows that being rational about politics is actually quite difficult, Estlund’s argument comes up short. Moreover, I argue that the argument cannot plausibly be extended to insulate normative theories of democracy from facts about political irrationality because of the need for constraints of realism to explain the crucial role that appeals to (reasonable) disagreement play within such theories.
人们对政治往往有偏见和不理性。这是否会限制我们的民主规范理论的要求?大卫·埃斯特伦德认为答案是否定的。他认为,即使这些事实表明规范性理论的要求非常不可能得到满足,这也不一定意味着该理论过于不现实。我认为,将埃斯特伦德的论点应用于政治非理性,是基于一个错误的前提:主要是,人们只要努力,就能很容易地对政治保持理性。由于经验证据表明,理性对待政治实际上是相当困难的,埃斯特伦德的论点不足。此外,我认为,这一论点不能合理地扩展到将民主的规范理论与有关政治非理性的事实隔离开来,因为需要现实主义的约束来解释在这些理论中呼吁(合理的)分歧所起的关键作用。
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Liberalism, commodification, and justice 自由主义、商品化和正义
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X19877653
Vida M. Panitch
Anti-commodification theorists condemn liberal political philosophers for not being able to justify restricting a market transaction on the basis of what is sold, but only on the basis of how it is sold. The anti-commodification theorist is correct that if this were all the liberal had to say in the face of noxious markets, it would be inadequate: even if everyone has equal bargaining power and no one is misled, there are some goods that should not go to the highest bidder. In this paper, I respond to the anti-commodification critique of liberalism by arguing that the political liberal has the wherewithal to account not only for the conditions under which goods should not be sold, but also for what kinds of goods should not be for sale in a market economy. The political liberal can appeal to a principle of equal basic rights, and to one of sufficiency in basic needs and the social bases of self-respect, I argue, to account for what’s problematic about markets in civic goods, necessary goods, and physical goods including body parts and intimate services.
反商品化理论家谴责自由主义政治哲学家,因为他们不能证明限制市场交易的依据是卖什么,而仅仅是卖的方式。这位反商品化理论家是正确的,如果这就是自由主义者在面对有害的市场时要说的一切,那将是不够的:即使每个人都有平等的议价能力,没有人被误导,也有一些商品不应该卖给出价最高的人。在本文中,我对自由主义的反商品化批评做出了回应,认为政治自由主义者不仅有足够的资金来解释商品不应该出售的条件,而且也有足够的资金来解释在市场经济中哪些商品不应该出售。我认为,政治自由主义者可以诉诸基本权利平等原则、基本需求充足原则和自尊的社会基础原则,来解释公民商品、必需品和包括身体部位和亲密服务在内的实物商品市场的问题。
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Testing epistemic democracy’s claims for majority rule 检验认识论民主对多数人统治的主张
IF 0.9 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/1470594X19870260
William J. Berger, Adam Sales
While epistemic democrats have claimed that majority rule recruits the wisdom of the crowd to identify correct answers to political problems, the conjecture remains abstract. This article illustrates how majority rule leverages the epistemic capacity of the electorate to practically enhance the instrumental value of elections. To do so, we identify a set of sufficient conditions that effect such a majority rule mechanism, even when the decision in question is multidimensional. We then look to the case of sociotropic economic voting in US presidential elections to provide empirical tractability for these conditions. We find that absent such an epistemic capacity a number of presidential elections might well have been decided differently. By generating clear conditions for the plausibility of claims made by epistemic democrats, and demonstrating their correspondence to empirical data, this article strengthens the broader instrumental grounds recommending democracy.
尽管认识论的民主主义者声称多数决定原则利用了群众的智慧来确定政治问题的正确答案,但这一猜想仍然是抽象的。本文阐述了多数决定原则如何利用选民的认知能力来实际提高选举的工具价值。为此,我们确定了一组充分的条件,这些条件可以影响这种多数决定机制,即使所讨论的决策是多维的。然后,我们着眼于美国总统选举中社会经济投票的案例,以提供这些条件的经验可追溯性。我们发现,如果没有这种认知能力,许多总统选举的结果很可能会有所不同。通过为认识论民主派提出的主张的合理性提供明确的条件,并证明它们与经验数据的对应关系,本文加强了推荐民主的更广泛的工具依据。
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