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Philosophy and Homelessness

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1picklesan
Abr 30, 2012, 2:55 pm

Wondering what people's thoughts might be in regards to homelessness and philosophy. Maybe it's kind of a strange question but I'm wondering if there might be any intersections where varying branches of contemporary philosophy shed light, contribute, or comment on homelessness (particularily in the Global North).

2rsterling
Abr 30, 2012, 3:24 pm

Not a strange question at all. I know of a few works in contemporary political theory that engage with the question of homelessness:
Leonard Feldman's Citizens Without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, And Political Exclusion
Kathleen Arnold's Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity: The Uncanniness of Late Modernity
Leslie Paul Thiele's Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics - though this discusses homelessness not in the everyday sense but as an ontological condition
See also parts of Thomas Dumm's united states: http://www.librarything.com/work/673510.

These are all working broadly with "continental" traditions of political theory. There's probably more out there in analytic philosophy and in ethics. You might try searching the Philosopher's Index, if you have access to it through a library.

3picklesan
Maio 2, 2012, 6:07 pm

Thanks for the recommendations...I'll look into those works.

From your perspective how do you see philosophy and homelessness impacting, and maybe possibly shaping each other?

4carusmm
Maio 19, 2016, 5:53 am

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5LheaJLove
Jun 2, 2016, 3:55 am

Interesting...

6quicksiva
Jun 14, 2016, 12:29 pm

Apuleius of Madaura, On Poverty:

"Pudens actually reproached me with being poor, a charge which is welcome to a philosopher and one that he may glory in. For poverty has long been the handmaid of philosophy; frugal and sober, she is strong in her weakness and is greedy for naught save honour; the possession of her is a prophylactic against wealth, her mien is free from care, and her adornment simple; her counsels are beneficent, she puffs no man up with pride, she corrupts no man with passions beyond his control, she maddens no man with the lust for power, she neither desires nor can indulge in the pleasures of feasting and of love. These sins and their like are usually the nurslings of wealth. Count over all the greatest crimes recorded in the history of mankind, you will find no poor man among their guilty authors. On the other hand, it is rare to find wealthy men among the great figures of history. All those at whom we marvel for their great deeds were the nurslings of poverty from their very cradles, poverty that founded all cities in the days of old, poverty mother of all arts, witless of all sin, bestower of all glory, crowned with all honour among all the peoples of the world. Take the history of Greece: the justice of poverty is seen in Aristides, her benignity in Phocion, her force in Epaminondas, her wisdom in Socrates, her eloquence in Homer. It was this same poverty that established the empire of the Roman people in its first beginnings, and even to this day Rome offers up thanksgivings for it to the immortal gods with libations poured from a wooden ladle and offerings borne in an earthen platter. If the judges sitting to try this case were Caius Fabricius, Cnaeus Scipio, Manius Curius, whose daughters on account of their poverty were given dowries from the public treasury and so went to their husbands bringing with them the honour of their houses and the wealth of the state; if Publicola, who drove out the Kings, or Agrippa, the healer of the people's strife, men whose funerals were on account of their poverty enriched by the gift of a few farthings per man from the whole Roman people; if Atilius Regulus, whose lands on account of his own poverty were cultivated at the public expense; if, in a word, all the heroes of the old Roman stock, consuls and censors and triumphant generals, were given a brief renewal of life and sent back to earth to give hearing to this case, would you dare in the presence of so many poor consuls to reproach a philosopher with poverty?

Apuleius, Lucius (2012-05-16). The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura (Kindle Locations 477-491). . Kindle Edition.

7Dzerzhinsky
Editado: Nov 28, 2016, 1:02 pm

I'm not sure they are related at all. Homelessness may be merely a symptom; its origins variously psychological, or economic, or military, or domestic, or what-have-you. But all these inciting factors may be unrelated to any motive which might be well-described in philosophy books. What if the homeless individual has never read any philosophy?

What's the link? Does a philosophical stance or attitude inevitably lead to homelessness? Hardly. Diogenes chose a barrel to reside in, and he was a philosopher, but it was not his philosophy which entirely motivated his decision.