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X-WR-CALNAME:Anthony Nguyen\, "Self-Determination and Self-Respect"
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Why is political self-determination valuable? There m
 ust be an answer: otherwise\, the many appeals to its value in democratic 
 and anticolonial theory rest on a fundamental philosophical mistake. The d
 ominant liberal approach explains self-determination’s value in terms of
  individual autonomy. However\, I object that this liberal picture is at b
 est incomplete. I argue that political equality is also necessary to satis
 fy the ideal of “internal” self-determination\, understood as a people
 ’s collective control—the ‘determination’ of ‘self-determination
 ’—over its own political institutions. Consequently\, only democratic 
 peoples can be fully internally self-determining\, contradicting the liber
 al consensus that non-democratic peoples may be fully self-determining. I 
 propose a new liberal egalitarian account of self-determination’s value.
  In my view\, achieving the social bases of self-respect requires self-det
 ermination. These social bases\, however\, constitute a social primary goo
 d. So\, if self-determination is needed to secure these social bases\, the
 n self-determination is valuable because it is needed for social justice. 
 Self-determination’s value is thus explained via the liberal egalitarian
  social bases of self-respect. In short\, if justice matters\, then so doe
 s self-determination.
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LOCATION:Goldwin Smith Hall\, G22
SUMMARY:Anthony Nguyen\, "Self-Determination and Self-Respect"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/anthony-nguyen-self-determin
 ation-and-self-respect
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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