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| Western anthropology Montenbruck, Axel |
| Haupttitel | Western anthropology |
| Titelzusatz | democracy and dehumanization |
| Autor | Montenbruck, Axel |
| Seitenzahl | 89 S. |
| Fachbereich/Einrichtung | FB Rechtswissenschaft |
| Arbeitsbereich/Institut | WE Strafrecht |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2010 |
| Dokumente | pdf-Datei
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| Freie Schlagwörter | Freedom, Civilization, Groupishness, Duties, Persons in Grammar, status communicativus, Neutralization, Conformity, Realistic Democratic Punishment, Rule of Weighing Freedom, Equity and Solidarity |
| DDC | 100 Philosophie 340 Recht |
| Dokumententyp/-Sammlungen | Monographie/Text |
| Medientyp/Format | Text |
| Abstract | The special kind of freedom of homo sapiens includes both, abiding by –normative– ethics of Humanity and contrasting ethics by using the –empirical– ability to dehumanize others. We humans are able to switch rather easily between both. The grammar of our Western languages indicates that, and Western political philosophy defines dignity of man by a similar formula. Regarding punishment and crime, our psyche is working with tech-niques of neutralizing brutal acts. Even we “good ones” suppress acting inhumanely towards others by the method of neutralizing or better by collectivizing ourselves. We democrats submit blindly to the Rule of Law and the mightiness of our own Justice. Justifying easily lifelong incarceration without accepting a bit of personal re-sponsibility for our own decisions is a kind of a collective ritual of de-individuation, sovereign democrats should be aware of. In order to define humanity as well as its negation, inhumanity, the simple Democratic Trinity of “Freedom, Equity and Solidarity” is to be picked up. With a set of four theses I’ll try reducing the complexity: (1) Juris-prudence and Political Science: There might be “Three Democratic Steps of Punishment”. (2) Linguistics and Culture: Grammar of Western languages indicate we are prepared for both Democracy in a We-group and for its Negation. Therefore Freedom might be de-fined as “status communicativus”, too. (3) Psychology and Ethics: Milgram et al. prove that the majority of us cannot avoid “obedience and submission”. Therefore we have to develop both strong collec-tive ethics and at least for leaders a “Personal Democratic Identity”. (4) Finally Philosophical Anthropology: The favored “Rule of Weighing Political Acts Democratically” means harmonizing for each important individual case “freedom, equity and solidarity”. |
| Inhalt | Author’s Note 3 Abstract 4 I. Prologue: Ethics and Anthropology 5 II. Part 1: Democracy 11 A. The Basic Ideals 11 B. Freedom: according to Hobbes 11 C. Civilization according to Locke and Mill 14 D. Including Rousseau: State and Solidarity 15 E. Western Democracies 18 F. My Background: Civilization and Democracy 22 1. Reality of Groupishness and the Fiction of Freedom 22 2. Freedom and Responsibility, Western Groupishness and Collective Guilt 25 3. “Family” and “Duties”, Ideal of Eastern Civilizations 27 4. “Peers and Asceticism”, the Limitation of raw Models 31 5. Western Diagram: Freedom, Equity and Solidarity 33 G. First Thesis: Three Democratic Steps to Punishment 34 III: Part 2: Culture 36 A. Communication and Culture 36 B. Persons in Grammar of Western Languages 39 C. Grammar and Western Philosophy 44 D. Second Thesis: Freedom as “status communicativus” 47 E. A Conclusion by Anthropology 51 IV. Part 3: Psychology 52 A. Introduction 52 B. Techniques of Neutralization, Matza/Sykes 53 C. Experiments of Milgram and Zimbardo 56 D. Neutralizing in Wartimes 59 E. From Neutralization to Dehumanization 60 F. Conformity and Collective Ethics 64 G. Third thesis: “Personal Democratic Identity” 66 V: Part 4: Punishment 70 A. Three Kinds of Ethics and Cruelties of Punishment 70 B. Realistic Democratic Punishment 72 C. Parallelism of three Approaches 75 D. The State as an Actor 77 E. Consequences for Types of Punishment 79 F. “Rule of Weighing Freedom, Equity and Solidarity” 82 G. A Fourth and Final Three-pointed Thesis 85 V. Epilogue: Anthropology and Ethics 86 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Rechte | Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| Statische URL | http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000004879 |
| Erstellt am | 26.02.2010 - 15:38:10 |
| Letzte Änderung | 21.05.2010 - 17:46:21 |
