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<!doctype html><html lang=en xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml><head><meta charset=UTF-8><meta name=description><meta content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" name=viewport><meta content=#9a9996 name=theme-color><title>Critical Epistemology - Aron Petau</title><link href=https://aron.petau.net/blog/critical-epistemologies/ rel=canonical><link href=https://aron.petau.net/favicon.png rel=icon type=image/png><link href=https://aron.petau.net/apple-touch-icon.png rel=apple-touch-icon sizes=180x180 type=image/png><link title="Aron Petau - RSS Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/rss.xml rel=alternate type=application/rss+xml><link title="Aron Petau - Atom Feed" href=https://aron.petau.net/atom.xml rel=alternate type=application/atom+xml><style>:root{--accent-color:#6f8396}</style><link href=https://aron.petau.net/style.css rel=stylesheet><link href=https://aron.petau.net/syntax-theme.css rel=stylesheet><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/closable.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/fuse.js></script><script defer src=https://aron.petau.net/search-fuse.js></script><meta content="Aron Petau" property=og:site_name><meta content="Critical Epistemology - Aron Petau" property=og:title><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/blog/critical-epistemologies/ property=og:url><meta content="Forum entries from the Seminar: Critical Epistemologies" property=og:description><meta content=https://aron.petau.net/card.png property=og:image><meta content=en_US property=og:locale><body><main id=main-content><h1>Critical Epistemology</h1><h2 id=forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-epistemologies><a aria-label="Anchor link for: forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-epistemologies" class=zola-anchor href=#forum-entries-from-the-seminar-critical-epistemologies>Forum entries from the Seminar: Critical Epistemologies</a></h2><h3 id=on-anderson-institutions><a aria-label="Anchor link for: on-anderson-institutions" class=zola-anchor href=#on-anderson-institutions>On Anderson: Institutions</a></h3><blockquote class=note><p class=alert-title><i class=icon></i>Note<p>Source Text: Epistemic Justice as a Virtue of Social Institutions Elizabeth Anderson (2012) Epistemic Justice as a Virtue of Social Institutions, Social Epistemology, 26:2, 163-173, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2011.652211 <a href=https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2011.652211>Publication</a></blockquote><p>The text by Anderson helped shed light on a few issues I stumbled over with Frickers Account. On top of the various issues I and seemingly others have with her virtue-based approach, I think a utilitarian angle is worth considering. That would be: okay, I accept that people can help fight injustice by realising their privilege, showing restraint, silencing themselves, and adopting the benevolent listening approach. I think that is a practical, virtuous, and realistic endeavour. But is it the effective path to alleviating structural injustice? I think not, and initially, that is a major reason I discarded Fricker’s approach, although I saw merit. I have similar concerns to Anderson in the scalability of virtues. Virtuous behavior might help my personal well-being, it gives me normative elevation and might even further the quality of relationships I have. But is it applicable to society, is it enough to counteract structural injustice? Well, maybe, assuming that:<ol><li>Everyone realizes their privilege,<li>Everyone concludes that justice is the right goal,<li>Upon deciding to adopt a virtuous stance, everyone at least moderately succeeds in practicing what they preach.</ol><p>I think, for society, the same society that came up with patriarchy in the first place, external pressure, some measure independent of the convictedness of the subjects is needed. Anderson made the powerful point of: “Anything that works, goes”, which took me some time to appreciate. I am always angry when I get told to keep my shower to a minimum or stop using plastic straws when I know exactly that my using less water is nothing compared to the institutionalized practice of Coca-Cola putting water
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