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Domine, non sum dignus
Publication . Testini, Francesco; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
Political Normativity… All-Things-Considered
Publication . Testini, Francesco; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA); Springer
The idea of a distinctively political normativity came under sustained fire lately. Here I formulate, test, and reject a moderate and promising way of conceiving it. According to this conception, political normativity is akin to the kind of normativity at play in all-things-considered judgments, i.e., those judgments that weight together all the relevant reasons to determine what practical rationality as such requires to do. I argue that even when we try to conceive political normativity in this all-things-considered way, and even when we do not concede from the get-go that moral reasons necessarily trump or override normative reasons of a different kind, political normativity is still reducible to morality, because the peculiar content of all-things-considered political oughts can be explained by the interplay of general moral principles and contextual facts that do not obtain exclusively in political scenarios. If my arguments are correct, I provide political realists with one more reason to withdraw from the metaethical battle over the idea of a distinctively political normativity and show that the moralist approach is defensible against a prima facie promising, but ultimately untenable, alternative.
From the Victorian Era to the American Experiment
Publication . Bispo, Jéssica; Pereira , Teresa; Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-portugueses (CETAPS); Ed. Universidade do Porto
New perspectives on game studies
Publication . Bispo, Jéssica; Pereira , Teresa; Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-portugueses (CETAPS); Ed. Universidade do Porto
2 + 2 = 5
Publication . Bispo, Jéssica; Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-portugueses (CETAPS); Ed. Universidade do Porto
Tendo em consideração a sociedade representada na obra Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949),de George Orwell, o presente artigo oferece uma análise dos métodos utilizados pelo governo vigente para assegurar a consolidação e propagação da sua ideologia, estabelecendo-se uma comparação com a teoria do filósofo Louis Althusser relativamente à estrutura do Estado e aos seus Aparelhos Ideológicos que permitem garantir a manutenção e propagação de determinados ideais. Desta forma, é possível entender a organização do Partido político detentor da totalidade do poder na sociedade imaginada por Orwell e como o mesmo garante a submissão silenciosa da população. Apesar do controlo exercido nesta sociedade distópica ser extremo, a nossa análise visa também revelar a existência de dissidentes, explorando como estes subvertem a ideologia do Partido e os recursos que este ultimo emprega, por sua vez, para abafar transgressões às normas impostas. Taking into account the society represented in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four(1949),by George Orwell, this article offers an analysis of the methods used by its rulinggovernment to secure the consolidation and spreading of its ideology, by establishing a comparison with philosopher Louis Althusser‘s theory concerning the structures of the State and its Ideological Apparatuses, which allow to maintain and spread certain ideals. Thus, it will be possible to understand the organization of the Party holding all the power in Orwell‘s imagined society and how it ensures the population‘s quiescent submission. Despite the extreme control exerted in this dystopiansociety, our analysis also seeks to expose the existence of dissenters, exploring how they subvert the Party‘s ideology and the resources it uses to smother transgressions to the imposed standards.