أونورا أونيل

الأعمال

• 1996نحو العدالة والفضيلة (Towards Justice and Virtue)

  تصور بنائي للعقل العملي: مبادئ يمكن للجميع تبنيها، منطلقها الالتزامات لا الحقوق.

• 2002مسألة ثقة (A Question of Trust)

  محاضرات ريث في «بي بي سي»: الشفافية وثقافة التدقيق لا تعيدان الثقة؛ أما المساءلة الذكية فقد تفعل.

الموقف

O’Neill reads Kant as a constructivist: moral principles are those that could be adopted by all, not ones derived from a prior conception of the good or from idealised rational agents. She argues that obligations are more fundamental than rights, because rights without identifiable duty-bearers are empty – a point she presses against the rhetoric of human rights. Her later work criticised both Rawls’s restriction of justice to a single society and the idealising assumptions of liberal theory, which abstract from real agents’ vulnerability. On trust she argues that transparency and audit have not restored trust in institutions and may damage it; what is needed is intelligent accountability and the possibility of judging whom to trust.

الحياة والسياق

Onora O’Neill (born 1941 in Northern Ireland) studied at Oxford and took her doctorate at Harvard under John Rawls in 1969. She taught at Barnard College and the University of Essex, was principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 2006, and has chaired the Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She was made a life peer in 1999 and delivered the BBC Reith Lectures in 2002.

أعمال رئيسة أخرى

• Faces of Hunger (1986)
• Constructions of Reason (1989)