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Document Details : Title: Recognition and Social Exclusion Subtitle: A Recognition-Theoretical Exploration of Poverty in Europe Author(s): SCHWEIGER, Gottfried Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 20 Issue: 4 Date: 2013 Pages: 529-554 DOI: 10.2143/EP.20.4.3005349 Abstract : Thus far, the recognition approach as described in the works of Axel Honneth has not systematically engaged with the problem of poverty. To fill this gap, the present contribution will focus on poverty conceived as social exclusion in the context of the European Union and probe its moral significance. It will show that this form of social exclusion is morally harmful and wrong from the perspective of the recognition approach. To justify this finding, social exclusion has to fulfil three conditions: (i) it has to be experienced as harmful by the socially excluded, (ii) it has to meet certain objective criteria, and (iii) it has to violate normative claims embedded within society. |
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