Justitia Amplificata Annual Conference - Fracture

 

Outline:

In this age of Brexit and Trump, many of the political institutions once thought stable are under attack. Rights widely considered universal and inalienable are routinely being questioned; pluralism and liberal forms of democracy have fallen out of fashion; calls for closed borders and a retreat into national identity abound. In many ways, then, our age is one of fracture — the fragmentation of institutions we have grown accustomed to. One way of looking at this is to say that we now reap the bitter fruits of decades of increasing economic inequality and the gradual dismantling of representative democracy. The declining capacity of states to promote prosperity and justice has caused a backlash that threatens to shatter the fragile consensus on which our societies rest. Creative and principled visions are urgently needed. This conference looks to political philosophy for such visions. How does normative theory respond so some of the most pressing political problems of our times? What guidance can it provide for the construction of institutions that enable social cooperation in a just and legitimate fashion?

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