Political Theory Workshop

  Global Justice and Economic and Social Rights ﾠ Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy  일시: 2024년 5월 27일 월요일 오후 3시 ~ 5시 장소: 서울대학교 사회과학대학 (16동) 교수회의실 (312호)ﾠ The protection of everyone’s economic and social rights is an essential component of any plausible theory of global justice. However, recent criticisms of the human rights project suggest that international human rights are not sufficiently ambitious or that they may be even detrimental to achieving global justice. This suspicion is supported by the fact that there has been a marked global increase in extreme inequality […]

Democracy without Shortcuts: Rescuing Democracy from Populism and Technocracy Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy 일시: 2024년 5월 28일 화요일 오후 6:30 ~ 8:30 장소: 서울대학교 사회과학대학 (16동) 교수회의실 (312호)ﾠ The current crisis of democracy fuels the impression that democratic societies are stuck between populism and technocracy, between the rule of experts and mob rule. For all their differences, populism and technocracy are equally incompatible with democracy. Contrary to the democratic commitment to give all citizens an equal say in political decisions, populism and technocracy expect citizens to blindly defer to the decisions of others. […]