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Human inter dependency and un conditional rights Hartley Dean London School of Economics Outline Ethics and morality The hegemonic liberalindividualist ethic Human interdependency ID: 245270

rights social responsibility human social rights human responsibility dependency welfare ethic recognition identity ethical responsibilities inter individualist claims mutual

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Ethics and Social Welfare:Human interdependency and unconditional rights

Hartley DeanLondon School of EconomicsSlide2
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Outline Ethics and morality

The hegemonic liberal-individualist ethicHuman (inter-)dependency

Human (co-)responsibilitiesUnconditional rights ?Slide4

1. Ethics and moralityA contested distinction

A dialectical relationship

Ethics

Cognitive ‘ethos’

Values

(what is ‘right’)

Abstract principles

Doctrines

(eternal)

Systemic/universal

MoralsCultural ‘mores’Norms (what is ‘good’)Customary practicesCodes (agreed)Living/localSlide5

2. The hegemonic liberal-individualist ethicRegards dependency and responsibility as inimical

Deep-rooted contractarian assumptionsThe sovereignty of the bargaining/competitive human subject must be ‘traded’ to secure the minimum necessary level of social order

Civil and political rights take precedence over social rights which must remain (a) subordinate to political and legal processes; and (b) subject to ‘progressive realisation’Social rights and social liberalism

‘Reluctant collectivism’ of Keynes and Beveridge

The Roosevelt legacy and the UDHR

The re-construction of social rights in a post-social era?

Equality of (moral) worth and the ‘covenant of opportunities and responsibilities’

A test of ‘worth’: avoidance of (welfare) dependency

Welfare conditionality: no help without stringsSlide6

3. Human (inter-)dependencyAlternative

solidaristic conceptions of rightsThe sovereignty of the attached/co-operative human subject must be ‘pooled’ to secure the maximum achievable level of social cohesion

Rights as a system of mutual protection premised on a collectively held recognition of individual vulnerability/frailty (Turner)The struggle for recognition (Honneth)

The ‘ethical life’ depends on recognition through:

Love: self-identity

Solidarity: collective identity

Rights: mutual recognition of each other’s claims Slide7

3. Human (inter-)dependency (Contd…./)

The right to (ontological) securityThe distinction between categorical and ontological identity (Taylor): the noumenal self

Frailty and the right to social protection, social inclusion and ‘asylum’An ethic of careSelf-alienation from social humanity: capitalism’s fetishised notions of work, dependency and justiceRe-constituting individuals as interdependent ‘selves-in-relationship’; and social policy in terms of the organisation/ negotiation of how we care for and about each other (e.g. Sevenhuijsen/ Williams)Slide8

4. Human (co-)responsibilitiesCompeting conceptions of responsibility

ethical

individualist/ collectivist/

contractarian

solidaristic

moralistic

civic duty

co-responsibility

conditional obedience

moral obligationSlide9

4. Human (co-)responsibilities (Contd…./)

An (alternative) ethic of co-responsibilityThe social negotiation of mutual obligation: beyond the mechanistic calculus of policy prescriptionApel

: co-responsibility requiresRational judgements, not moral traditionsAn effective (global) communication community capable of acknowledging the needs/claims of all its membersEqual respect for scientific and ethical claims to

truth

Constituting personhood

Minimum

material

provision is as constitutive of personhood as liberty or autonomy and reflects extent to which we each have ethical responsibility for everybody else (Griffin)Slide10

The evidence (from UK):Popular discourse

Is capable (reluctantly) of acknowledging human interdependencyIs ensnared by a narrow (ethically individualistic) notion of responsibility

Accedes to the inalienability of certain human rights, but is inhibited from translating awareness of interdependency into support for universal social rightsSlide11

ConclusionTo promote an

ethically premised unconditional rights-based approach to social welfare provision would be:

Jolly nice (Pooh)Ever so difficult (Eyore)Tremenously exciting (Tigger)