Non-Negotiable Demands: Metaphysics, Politics, and the Discourse of Needs

Naomi Scheman

doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195395112.003.0002

Non-Negotiable Demands: Metaphysics, Politics, and the Discourse of Needs

Naomi Scheman

Philosophy (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

This chapter examines the limits of philosophy and why it is not possible to discover every single "truth" of reality given the tension between needs versus demands. Philosophy unfortunately cannot address the demands placed upon it, as it has been decontextualized in the historical and political sense. Moreover, there are the problems of privileged subjectivity, fixed moral standards that can apply objectively to all (or lack thereof), and the nature of reality. Most philosophers also come from a relatively enfranchised background, and this alone can color their definition of the "real need" of the marginalized.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Shifting Ground
Subtitle of host publication	Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780190267483
ISBN (Print)	9780195395112
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195395112.003.0002
State	Published - May 27 2015

Keywords

Demands
Moral standards
Nature of reality
Needs
Philosophy
Privileged subjectivity
Real need

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