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42 Macer, DRJ and Saad-Zoy, S. eds., Asia-Arab Interregional Philosophical Dialogues: Human Dignity, Justice, Fairness, Youth, Democracy and Public Policy (UNESCO, 2011) Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in Social and Economic Development in the Modern World - Chanroeun Pa Cambodian Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics, Cambodian Mekong University, Cambodia; Ph.D. Student, Charles Sturt University, Australia E-mail: chanroeunkh@gmail.com As the title indicates, this paper examines the important roles of ancient wisdom and how it could contribute to the social and economic development of a nation in the modern day. Over the past decades, social and economic development in many developing countries including Cambodia have placed an emphasis on capitalism, industrialization and technology which relied too much on the Western knowledge and know-how. There are some successful stories and problems in following this paradigm of development; for instance, Cambodia has experienced the fast economic growth in the last two decades. However, the country is also facing some serious problems such as the development imbalance, cultural and environmental destruction, urbanization etc. that are the results of the misguided development and they extremely affect the quality of life of the people. Seen the outcome of such crisis caused us to rethink, review and reevaluate our social and development approach and plan. It is realized that we have focused too much on the Western ways of development and just neglected some of our practical ancient wisdoms, the local and the indigenous knowledge and skills, which are also the treasures that could contribute to the harmony, prosperity, dignity and sustainability of a nation. Commentator: Jasdev Rai
Macer, DRJ and Saad-Zoy, S. eds., Asia-Arab Interregional Philosophical Dialogues: Human Dignity, Justice, Fairness, Youth, Democracy and Public Policy (UNESCO, 2011) 43 Justice, Contempt, and the Search for Recognition - Kamel Boumenir, MC à l’Université Alger 2 – Bouzareah, Algeria E-mail: k.boumenir@yahoo.fr One of the foundational concepts of the theory of justice recently inaugurated by Axel Honneth—the current representative of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School—is that of recognition. According to Honneth, the demand for justice cannot by reduced simply to a demand for equality understood in the traditional sense, that is to say to a relation of equality in the distribution (or redistribution) of goods and wealth, with a view to creating social equality, but the demand as well for the recognition of the human person, of human dignity, and of human worth. For a person, access to a positive relation with oneself and to success rely on intersubjective recognition, which take three general forms (self-confidence, self-respect, selfesteem) and define the totality of conditions necessary for a person to lead a successful life. This recognition finds itself threatened in current societies whose contradictions and conflicts push for the standardization of what qualifies for social contempt. The experience of contempt is always accompanied by feelings which reveal to the individual that certain forms of recognition are denied him/her. Establishing justice on the basis of recognition allows for taking into consideration the forms of denial of recognition and of social contempt. The principal categories of this new understanding of justice are no longer “distribution of goods” or “equality of wealth” but “human dignity” and “integrity of individuals”. Thus, social justice is measured to the degree that it is able to guarantee the conditions of mutual recognition. Apart from Axel Honneth, I will be referring to Nancy Fraser, Charles Taylor, and Emmanuel Renault. For all these philosophers, the question of justice founded on the idea of recognition is absolutely fundamental.
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