Solidarity: Obligations and Expressions

In some instances of solidarity individuals act with a group as a result of obligations incurred because of membership in that group. In other instances individuals act in solidarity to express empathy or support for a group in which they have never actually participated, and whom they could not pos...

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Published inThe journal of political philosophy Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 128 - 145
Main Author Taylor, Ashley E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2015
Subjects
Group membership
Intragroup relations
Membership
Obligation
Political philosophy
Solidarism
Solidarity
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Summary:In some instances of solidarity individuals act with a group as a result of obligations incurred because of membership in that group. In other instances individuals act in solidarity to express empathy or support for a group in which they have never actually participated, and whom they could not possibly be considered to be acting with. Our options are to either accept the mutual exclusivity of these two dominant uses of the term - reject one of these views of solidarity; or to find a way of explaining that in fact both solidarity with a group and solidarity toward a group are instances of solidarity. This latter route must then explain how solidarity can bear two different normative compositions both of which are appropriately identiable as solidarity. Reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers
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Thanks to Mike Ridge, Alan Wilson, and Kyle Scott for helpful conversations and feedback throughout the development of this article. I am also grateful for suggestions from Matthew Chrisman, audiences at the University of Edinburgh, and the North American Society for Social Philosophy annual meeting in 2012. Finally, thanks to the excellent editors and anonymous reviewers of this article.
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ISSN:0963-8016
1467-9760
DOI:10.1111/jopp.12035