Solidarity : concept, conceptions, and contexts
- The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the concept of solidarity and distinguish various conceptions of solidarity that differ depending on social and normative contexts. The analysis helps to clarify both the different meanings of the term “solidarity” (and the different normative conceptions) and to avoid some of its pitfalls. The latter stem from making false connections between these conceptions, such as the assumption that solidarity must always be of an ethical or nationalist nature, that it is categorially different from justice or is always supererogatory. Solidarity as a virtue comes in many forms and with many justifications and grounds, and one must not reduce this plurality, but instead describe it properly. As already indicated, this opens up the possibility of conflicts between these contexts and dimensions of solidarity. The (as argued) “normatively dependent” concept of solidarity does not tell us to which form we ought to accord priority.
Author: | Rainer ForstGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-608905 |
Parent Title (English): | Normative Orders Working Paper ; 02/2021 |
Series (Serial Number): | Normative orders working paper : Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt, Main (02/2021) |
Publisher: | Research Centre “Normative Orders“ of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/04/26 |
Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/04/27 |
Tag: | Justification; Normative Orders; Solidarity |
GND Keyword: | Solidarität; Soziale Norm |
Volume: | 2021 |
Page Number: | 14 |
Last Page: | 14 |
Institutes: | Exzellenzcluster |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |