Blackwood Project 2001. Geoff Boucher
Thanks all for another productive and enjoyable session. We have agreed to the following distribution of tasks and schedule, in relation to ethical politics:
Geoff: democracy (Giddens’ concept of the “democratisation of democracy,” the three main areas of democratic theory today — transparency of government, democratisation of everyday life and cosmopolitan democracy — and the question of democratic socialism).
Bill: social solidarity and the (re)creation of community
Andy: liberalism, communitarianism, equality
Fiona and Roger: the riseof a new universality
Anitra: environmental and technological ethics
Ken: “beyond Left and Right” — Giddens’ claim that morality transcends politics
Linda: I believe Linda might have to chose her own area to survey, once she has ‘read and inwardly digested’ the material.
We agreed to a preliminary e-mail exchange to maintain discussion, on or by Sunday 25 June.
We meet again on Sunday 22 July at 2pm, Blackwood. If people feel that this is too far to come for the next meeting, I am certainly open to the idea of having it in Melbourne.
Regards, Geoff.