Tournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Coronado CC | Judge: asfhkja
Mutual recognition is a pre-requisite to ethical interactions. This entails that I recognize that to you I am "other" just as you are other to me– put simply; it requires that I recognize you as an agent and vice-versa. This structure of recognition is a necessary condition for commutative interaction an intrinsic feature of ethics because commutative actions are inherently inter-subjective.
My relationship to the other, although reciprocal, is irreversible and asymmetrical – meaning that I cannot know your perspective.
~Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago, "ASYMMETRICAL RECIPROCITY: ON MORAL RESPECT, WONDER, AND ENLARGED THOUGHT". FEMINISM AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE. CD. Constellations Volume 3, No 3, 1997~
The theory of subjectivity Benhabib refers to in this passage holds that each person’s identity
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of experiences when I try to put myself in the other person’s place.
This means that there is no neutral point of view since our relation to the others always influences our perspective. Even in trying to understand the other by identifying common features and experiences we are relating them to our own experience and perspective. This means it is not similarity that is important to understand, rather difference is what is relevant to gaining insight on the perspective of the other and undergoing mutual recognition with them.
Additionally, any attempt to reverse perspectives is an attempt at impartiality because it requires the agent ignore their own biases and recognize the differences of all others, which is impossible. Only an oppressor is in a position that allows them to impose their partial view as impartial. Thus, attempting to reverse perspectives is an attempt to dominate.
And, social groups are an integral part of an agent’s identity; however, they can choose how they relate to that group. For example, a woman can choose to internalize certain norms of femininity or she can choose to resist.
~Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, "INCLUSION AND DEMOCRACY", OXFORD POLITICAL THEORY, CD. 2000~
An important strand of social theory describes individual subjectivity and identity as constituted or ~
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so on, which are sources of both possibilities of action and constraint.
Since, we cannot reverse perspectives, and because we are already committed to the ethical relationship in virtue of being social agents, the only possible ethical relationship is to aim to understand meaning we must recognize difference to enhance the perspectives available.
~Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, "INCLUSION AND DEMOCRACY", CD. OXFORD POLITICAL THEORY, 2000~
Inclusion of and attention to socially differentiated positions in democratic discussion tends to correct biases
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this process can lead to a better understanding of the requirements of justice.
Thus, the standard is embracing the inclusion of difference.
Standard Analysis:
~Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, "INCLUSION AND DEMOCRACY", OXFORD POLITICAL THEORY, CD. 2000~
Impedes political communication. In Chapter 1 I traced the circle that often goes from
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the problems they generate, and the priorities they should have for action.
~National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), "Housing Rights for All: Promoting and Defending Housing Rights in the United States" Fifth Edition, CD. 2011 A Resource Manual on International Law and the Human Right to Adequate Housing~
According to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the human
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, lack of maintenance, and destruction of historical cultural connections to land.
~Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, "INCLUSION AND DEMOCRACY", OXFORD POLITICAL THEORY, 2000~
Reproduces structures of privilege and disadvantage. People who live in neighbourhoods or communities with
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inhabitants, rationalizing further discrimination against them because of where they they live.
====The right to housing is a prerequisite to any notion of freedom and other rights.====
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Jeremy Waldron (New Zealand professor of law and philosophy. He holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law and was formerly the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford University. Waldron also holds an adjunct professorship at Victoria University of Wellington. Waldron is regarded as one of the world's leading legal and political philosophers.) UCLA Law Review. "Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom." CCD. https://faculty.washington.edu/pembina/all'articles/Waldron201991.pdf
That private property limits freedom seems obvious.15 If I own a piece of
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a striking illustration of the importance of our not losing sight of that.)
This means that NCs premised in property rights fail because they cannot resolve competing claims and overriding interests. The AC resolves this problem by giving priority to the right to housing, a necessary condition for exercising other rights.
~NANCY FRASER, "Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition,
and Participation". THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES, Delivered at Stanford University April 30–May 2, 1996~
Thus, not only gender, but virtually every major axis of injustice requires both
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a two-pronged approach that can address the twofold need for both.
This means that the AC addresses the material conditions that are essential for any kind of recognition and therefore a prerequisite to any ethical relationships.
