Benjamin Franks. Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics [Review]

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Benjamin Franks. Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics [Review]

Original language description

This is a book review of Benjamin Franks’ Anarchisms, Postanarchisms and Ethics. The book asks two fundamental questions: how can we account for an anarchist ethics when wariness towards universal rules is fundamental to anarchism? Is an ethics of anarchism even possible? Benjamin Franks attempts to answer such questions by proposing an anarchist virtue ethics. He combines Michael Freeden’s conceptual approach to ideology with Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of virtue to advance a ‘practice-based virtue theory’ that offers ‘a basis for moral judgement while rejecting a universality perspective’. Throughout the book, Franks engages critically with a range of alternative approaches (deontology, consequentialism, utilitarianism) to delineate the advantages of virtue ethics in thinking about anarchism. At the same time, he reckons with the complicated and evolving relationship between anarchism and postanarchism. Here the question of ethics helps define, evaluate, and ultimately reframe, anarchism and postanarchism. This triangulation (anarchism, postanarchism, ethics) allows Franks to reflect productively on the future of anarchism and its ethical categories.

Czech name

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů