Meaning of harmability | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being harmable.

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Examples

“We have seen that the will-rights conception seems more vulnerable to the non-existence challenge than the interest-rights one. It is possible however that the will-rights conception could actually be less vulnerable to the non-identity challenge than the interest-rights one, insofar as the former relies less directly on a concept of interest and on the underlying assumption of harmability.”

““Moral Standing” Defined 1. Self-Regulation 2. Harmability 3. Worthiness”

“Schematically, then, we may: (a) foreground vulnerability as a primarily negative condition of harmability; (b) take vulnerability to be primarily negative but therefore caution against focussing on it (as does, e.g. [Bonnie] Honig); (c) re-interpret vulnerability as an ambiguous condition (e.g. [Erinn] Gilson); (d) take our condition to be ambiguous but call it something other than vulnerability (‘openness’, perhaps).”

“Vulnerability is, as [Edward] Farley made clear, tied to the capacity to be harmed: to be vulnerable is to be harmable. But vulnerability is not necessarily lived or encountered as harmability all the time, because vulnerability is often negotiated through the possibilities, the goods, that specific vulnerabilities accompany – the goods, not the vulnerability, are the point, the focus – at least until the point of loss.”

“The vulnerability or ‘harmability’ of other beings is recognized as a security issue only insofar as it directly contributes to the intrinsic uncertainty of human existence (see, e.g., [Andrew] Linklater 2011).”

“Against these discourses, the volume Tranquilas addresses the patriarchal normalisation of violence against women and attempts to undo some of the structures that make it prevalent. Firstly, it fights against the consideration of violence as a sort of ‘manifest destiny’, in Sayak Valencia’s words, that condemns girls and women to always exist under conditions of ‘vulnerabilidad y dañabilidad’ [vulnerability and harmability] (2018) through narration and characterisation.”

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