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Association: Name: North Eastern Political Science Association URL: http://www.northeasternpsa.org
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Josefson, Jim. "A Materialistic Conception of Justice as Ethical Consumption" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North Eastern Political Science Association, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 06, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89665_index.html>

Josefson, J. , 2003-11-06 "A Materialistic Conception of Justice as Ethical Consumption" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North Eastern Political Science Association, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89665_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper I argue that a materialistic conception of justice as ethical consumption is superior to rationalist theories such as Rawls’s and Kant’s. I ground the theory by indulging in a common approach of theorists such as Arendt, a genealogy of justice that goes back to ancient Athens. If we have the wrong conception of justice, where did we get off on the wrong foot? Of course, I finger the usual suspect: Plato. I argue that a materialistic sense of justice as ethical consumption underlay the democratic regime of circa 5th century B.C.E. Athens and then suggest how Plato’s philosophy attacked this sense and substituted a model of justice based on abstract rational principles. I then turn to illustrate the influence of Platonic thinking on conceptions of justice, focusing on Augustine and liberalism. I argue that “producerism” rather than rationalism enabled liberalism to achieve advances in justice. However, producerism has limited use as we have moved into a less producerist age. To demonstrate the efficacy of a materialistic sense of justice as ethical consumption, I argue that many of the successful movements for justice in 20th century America (especially Progressivism and the New Deal) have been inspired by materialistic conceptions of justice. Finally, I suggest my theory of justice helps to complete the project for recovering human freedom begun by Hannah Arendt.

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