Project Title: Spinozian Ethics and Politics of Migration
Department: Department of Philosophy at the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Supervisors and HEIs:
Professor Beth Lord, School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History, University of Aberdeen.
Dr Natasha Saunders, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews.
About Sava’s Research
This project uses the political philosophy of 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza to address key questions in the ethics of migration. I draw on Spinoza’s ethical and political texts to construct a Spinozistic ethics of migration, building on his concepts of natural right, freedom, and toleration. I argue that Spinoza’s concepts are flexible enough to form the basis of a theory of the rights and obligations of immigrants, a theory that moves beyond the current literature by grounding the right to migrate not in an abstract ideal of fairness, but in the imperative of the state to pursue peace.
CONNECT WITH SAVA
E-mail: s.ristic.22@abdn.ac.uk