79 research outputs found
Restorative Justice as Social Innovation
No full textThe essay explains the relevance of the “restorative paradigm” in the context of the debate on “social innovation”, particularly addressing the topic of the management of conflicts. A “restorative approach” to wrongdoing in ordinary relationships could mean a new way to reduce the paralyzing effects of “evil” in human experience and to facilitate the return to cooperation between people. The essay also briefly presents the studies collected in the book
A restorative approach to environmental conflicts
No full textThis paper aims to further explore alternative ways to deal with
environmental crisis. The restorative justice (RJ) approach looks
promising for diferent reasons that are considered here, namely the
ofenders’ acknowledgement of responsibility, a non-economic
understanding of compensation and the possibility to manage justice
among large groups of stakeholders. As RJ is a way of managing confict
that starts by focusing on the harm caused by an ofence, a more detailed
understanding of environmental harm is needed to pave the way for
environmental RJ. This paper ofers some preliminary insights to provide
a more detailed overview of environmental harm. However, not all
commonly used RJ practices seem suitable for dealing with environmental
harm. The emerging feld of study of environmental RJ needs to
acknowledge which practices could be transferred from regular to
environmental RJ and which ones would be ineffective
Why Proximity Matters for the Concept of Supererogation
No full textThe concept of supererogation is strictly correlated with duty, since its peculiar value is defined by acts that go beyond our regular obligations. This paper highlights the importance of proximity (relational closeness) in allowing the proper theoretical space to supererogation. As a matter of fact if we broaden our sense of duty, the possibility to perform supererogatory acts correspondingly decreases. Special obligations emphasize how difficult acts of supererogation are to perform if we stand in some morally-relevant special position with the recipient of our acts. Thus, we can conclude that the relationship between the agent and the recipient of the act (proximity) plays an important role both for our sense of duty (generating special obligations) and for the possibility of performing supererogatory acts. Furthermore, this analysis brings attention to the fact that whenever an act is supererogatory, it cannot, at the same time, be a special obligation (and vice versa). As a consequence, if proximity plays such a role, an objection to the possibility of self-regarding supererogation can be made
Rischio e tutela. La teoria morale alle prese con l’incertezza dell’atto.
No full textIn this essay, we reflect on the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘safeguard’ within the moral philosophical debate, defining risk as the possibility of committing amorally negative act and protection as a possible theoretical support in the prevention of such risk. Through a series of philosophically relevant questions, the essay explores the role of normative theory in the face of risk, examining practical decisions under conditions of uncertainty and their moral significance. Ancient thought, in particular that of Aristotle, is analysed to better understand these dynamics. Subsequently, the essay focuses on medieval thought, with particular attention to the work of Thomas Aquinas and the development of the principle of double effect (PDE) in Second Scholasticism
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