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Smart Development
&
Human Rights
Looking at the Crisis
And Finding the Social
Moral and Intellectual Virtues
a) prudence, justice, fortitude, courage,
liberality, magnificence, magnanimity,
temperance
b) justice, perseverance, empathy, integrity,
intellectual courage, confidence in reason,
autonomy
Crisis – Interruption or Normality?
* External factors
* Misbehaviour or ill-behaviour
* Systematic and recurrent incidence
+ having a ‘clearing function’ or
+ being an interruption of a secular development
* systematic normality
Modern nation state
* division of labour –
not least considered as social division
* socio-functionally differentiated and ordered
* employment oriented
* regulated by law
Production –
the economic process in a nutshell
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Manufacturing
Consumption
Distribution
Exchange
Circle of Accumulation
* Investment
* Labour
Purchases and
Consumption
Use Values
* Re-Investment
Generation of
Profit
Exchange Values
the creation of mountains of debt
coupled with extraordinary growth in fiscal profits.
private debt (household and business)
in percent of U.S. GDP
1970 – 110 ------- 2007 – 293
Expansion of financial profits
between 1995 and mid 2007
by 300 percent
Political and Economic Basis of Power
* Tributary Societies (Non-State Societies)
* Slave Societies (Polis Societies)
* Feudal Societies (Emerging State Systems)
* Developing Capitalist Societies
(Emerging State Systems)
*Capitalist Societies (Nation State Societies)
* State Monopolist Societies
(International State Societies)
*Globalised Capitalist Societies
(Glocalised Function-Regulative Systems)
Political Power: Practice and Control
Development as Separation of Power
– Enlightenment and the Loss of Reason
• Instrumental Reason
• Utilitarianism
• The Commonwealth as
result of the desocialised, hedonist individual
reintegrated by virtue
The Loss of the Social
The Crisis Debate
• Greed
• Misbehaviour
• ‘Consequential fit’
Moral and Intellectual Virtues
a) prudence, justice, fortitude, courage,
liberality, magnificence, magnanimity,
temperance
b) justice, perseverance, empathy, integrity,
intellectual courage, confidence in reason,
autonomy
• Processuality
• Mutuality
• Relationality
• Contradictioriness
The Social
outcome of the interaction between
people (constituted as actors) and their
constructed and natural environment.
With this in mind its subject matter
refers to people’s productive and
reproductive relationships.
Moral and Intellectual Virtues
a) prudence, justice, fortitude, courage,
liberality, magnificence, magnanimity,
temperance
b) justice, perseverance, empathy, integrity,
intellectual courage, confidence in reason,
autonomy
• Processuality
Power as appropriation rather than
control
• Mutuality
Inclusion as recognition rather than
assimilation
• Relationality
Cohesion as defining and establishing
rights
• Contradictoriness
Socio-economic security as matter of
claiming rights rather than negotiating