But he hastened to suggest that the distinction was actually misleading. London: Basil Blackwell, p. 1376. This would require no less than a redefinition of work – and what is understood by good work. Care also raises the fundamental question of how we relate to time; of how we measure and institutionalise it. 01 October 2019 “Humanitarianism and the Public Intellectual in Times of Crisis”, Distinguished Lecture by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series, Fordham University, Lincoln Centre Campus, New York, 11:00 am, Monday, 30th September 2019 The partnership, cooperation, mutual trust and respect that are at the heart of multilateralism are embedded in the rule of law and on values which aim to protect all individuals on this planet, their rights, aspirations and dignity, values that not have a single origin in time, culture or belief system. The case for the importance of ethics can be put in quite a straight-forward fashion: we need, as a matter of urgency, to have that discussion so that we can, as David Harvey puts it, act as the “conscious architects” of the “institutional and imaginative worlds we inhabit.” Harvey, D. 2000. The state is allowed to play a role in neo-liberal thinking but it is ‘retasked’ and restructured, through the use of audit devices, or the outsourcing of previously state-run services, such as mortgage lending for example. Love, Care and Injustice. Can we, as ordinary citizens, enter the discourse on economic policy issues, or are we too economically illiterate for that? The fascination with quantification is a distinctive feature of our times. Such an archaeological approach to economic knowledge is a tool that enables us to assess the ethical consequences of the views neoliberal thinkers harbour about what it means to be human, and the institutional arrangements that underpin their vision of the good society. Orléan goes on to relate a meeting of the French Association of Political Economy in 1908, at which Émile Durkheim delivered a paper pointing out the limits of this contrast: “At first sight,” Durkheim argued, “political economy appears to deal with facts of a very different nature from the other social sciences. At that meeting, where Mr Grandi once again spelled out the vital work his Office is doing, all of us present were reminded that we are challenged to give authentic expression to what we mean by hospitality, to give meaning by our actions to our words. Ambassador Byrne Nason to the Opening Session Commission on the Status of Women, Remarks by H.E. Cambridge, Mass. Are the issues so complex as to require their being lifted out of the democratic parliamentary system? Migration is central to our Irish consciousness. I thank you the people of Ireland for the honour you have bestowed upon me and I accept and appreciate the great responsibilities of that office. Speeches by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins - Áras an Uachtaráin Áudio não suportado em HTML5 Account for Áras an Uachtaráin, providing updates on the work of Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins. - I was very impressed to read of the submission in 2012 from the Royal Irish Academy to the Curriculum Development Committee proposing the inclusion of philosophy as a formal Leaving Certificate subject. Statement by Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason on behalf of Ireland at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security: Sexual Violence in Conflict. So many young people worldwide are not allowed achieve fulfilment, in employment, education or training; one-in-four are affected by conflict or violence; millions of girls become mothers while they are still children. 2011. 2604. For Ireland too, the United Nations is also a great peace project, one that strives for fair and sustainable global development; for the resolution of conflicts, both ancient and new; for the support of the many fleeing war, persecution, famine and natural disasters. – and that economics makes the same basic assumption as the other social sciences do, namely that members of society are able to coordinate their behaviour because they share certain values. Irish President Michael D. Higgins calls for greater empathy, criticizes "re-emergence of stereotypical depictions of migrants" in New York University speech. Young people in particular have shown courage, innovation and resolve. And if from all of the possible starting points I had a choice, I think I would reflect on Aristotle’s advice to his son Nicomachus, that friendship makes a demand on our virtue greater than justice. Peace processes have to find a way for different identities and narratives to coexist, by creating a space where they no longer have to compete in a zero-sum game and by finding a way, through peace processes, to address historic and contemporary injustices. President. The current state of the European economy, with its high levels of unemployment, poverty and increasing inequality, is a source of concern, anxiety and even moral outrage for many of our fellow citizens. But perhaps the problem is even more profound than any choice of indicators and has to do with the very notion that it is possible to count and quantify such things as happiness, or human progress. In my consultation – Being Young and Irish – last year, young people themselves called for something similar. Never more than today have our challenges been of such a global and momentous nature, and never more than today have the challenges and, frankly, the threats the world faces, called out for us to recognise our collective responsibilities, including those of intergenerational justice. It allows the large and small, the powerful and weak, to co-exist in shared concern and joint prospect for the betterment of a shared world. Watch later. According to Mirowski, this view of Hayek’s underpins the contemporary proliferation of baroque financial instruments and the notion that the market always provides solutions to the problems it has created in the first place, whether in the form of carbon emissions permits, microloans, or through the belief that the best people to clean up the crisis are the same bankers and financiers who caused it. We will continue contributing to fragile and conflict-affected states with the goal of easing the plight of civilians in such places as the Central African Republic, Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Ireland, like many Member States, is clear on the need to reform the Security Council. But this standard is determined, in every era, by opinion. Tel: +353 1 617 1000Fax: +353 1 617 1001Lo Call: 1890 430 430. Speech. On our own island, well before the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement, we established a permanent Secretariat, in continuous session - it still sits today. D. Higgins but my estimation of the man has increased tenfold after listening to that speech. Climate action is essential of course, if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We always have been from our origin, through our Famine, into the modern period. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 226. An ethics of Aristotelian friendship, infused with notions of care and responsibility, is a fruitful paradigm to conceive of our relations to our fellow citizens and to future generations. Thus, whereas their fellow social scientists regard value as a set of social representations, the expression of collective beliefs, economists use ‘value’ as if it were an objective fact, which facilitates a claim to scientific status for economics. For any entity to have legitimacy it must reflect the make-up of the world in which it exists. Young people are now at the leading edge of the rapid technological revolution we are living through, and this is important for much of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement and other international commitments can only be delivered with technological steps forward. For this reason, the Israel Palestine conflict resonates deeply with the Irish people. We must restate that a negotiated peace agreement, based on two states, will command unprecedented support, goodwill and an international determination to assist and protect and defend that peace with all the means at our disposal. But the recent crisis has failed, so far, to prompt any far-reaching self-examination within departments of economics in universities across the world, as to how economics is taught and should be taught, and what the consequences are of teaching in terms of policy prescription. A 2010 interview between Michael D. Higgins, who was elected President of Ireland in 2011, and Boston conservative radio host Michael Graham has recently gone viral, with a YouTube clip of the debate attracting over half a million visitors. It cannot be an introduction or an extension of what is failing. Refonder l’économie. And, it is for this reason that Ireland is also a strong supporter of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. That responsibility is on all of us as leaders and citizens to encourage those with whom we share this fragile planet, to create a yearning for such as that “vast and endless sea”, of which the French writer, Saint-Exupéry, spoke – a yearning for peace, justice, and freedom for all from fear. Remembering this legacy, I could not speak here today in good faith, or with authenticity in relation to the Charter, without acknowledging that the international order is now again under grave pressure. As Bruno Schulz put it, “the possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Seuil. The President has called on the European Union to not forget 'the brutal colonisation of previous times' during conversations with African nations. What conceptions of human nature and the good society underpin our contemporary economic discourse? I applaud the leadership that Secretary-General Guterres continues to show on migration. Had he succeeded, we perhaps could more readily engage with the normativity inherent to the production of economic knowledge. It means a great deal to my wife and me to be visiting your country in this particular year. And while this may be preliminary to the more specific interests of ‘professional ethicists,’ some of them present in the audience, who concern themselves with the application of ethical codes of conduct to biological and medical practice, legal practice, business, or the various academic disciplines dealing with human subjects, it is, I believe, crucial as a basis. Yes, the challenges facing the international community today – interconnected and truly global as they are – are numerous, and none is more urgent than climate action. The devastating impact of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas tells us that the need for action is staring us in the face. All the above-mentioned dimensions have to be kept in mind as we move to posit an alternative set of principles by which we might think and live more ethically. International Women’s Day - 8 March 2019 No peace process is simple or linear or without cost. 2009. Inaugural speech of President Michael D. Higgins RTÉ News, 11 November 2011. The international community must recognise vulnerability and value it as a driver for action. What kinds of human capabilities do particular societies value, encourage, genuinely enable, or block? We view the United Nations as that special institution where newly free nations have found a home after their struggles for independence, their emergence from shadows, legacies and distortions of imperialism. While technologies have made the world more connected, we also witness the ways they can be misused to spread xenophobia or hateful rhetoric. As we do so, we acknowledge that this is a response to what is urgent. By Cork Safety Alerts News Oct 8, 2020 (Event details here) A chairde, dear friends, President Michael D Higgins has called for a new ethical and philosophical approach to economic policy during an address at Dublin City University. It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in times where economic worth is primarily seen as a matter of productive capacity. Ireland seeks to demonstrate our commitment to multilateralism in many practical ways. A Dhaoine Uaisle, I am delighted to be here on the eve of the first anniversary of the designation of Galway as an UNESCO City of Film. In doing so, our commitment to equality must go beyond the notion of equality of opportunity, and face our own, often buried, selfishness. CSW Commission on the status of women. Such structures can allow for the continuity of even the smallest achievements, the transcendence too of what might appear to be impossible differences, and the emergence of original proposals. So much of the work of maintaining and enhancing human livelihoods takes place outside the market. This evening I situate my argument upstream of this debate by suggesting that the problem might not lie so much in a lack of the right answers to this most recent crisis of capitalism as in an absence of the right questions. President-Michael-D.-Higgins-Speech.docx (31 downloads) President Michael D. Higgins speaks to young adults at the Young Adult Book Festival 2020, delivering his uplifting message of ‘hope’ and addresses the challenging times that young adults have endured during the covid pandemic. I introduced him to four families who have sought refuge in Ireland. Neoliberalism, then, does make assumptions about human nature and the good society. We need a paradigm shift in our thinking as to how we will combine ecology, economy, and social life so as to achieve meeting the greatest of human needs. Statement by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland, Open Debate on Reconciliation, Security Council, 19 November 2019, Statement Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative on behalf of Ireland, Remarks by Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason marking the Ten Year Anniversary of the Establishment of the Mandate on Sexual Violence in Conflict. A chairde, dear friends, I am very happy to be with you today, albeit from a distance, to address this OECD conference which focuses on … President. Op.cit., p.2. Verso. Quite simply, as we all know, many areas of the world are either insufficiently represented in the Security Council, under-represented or not at all represented. I say to the peoples of these states, you humble us by hosting great numbers of persons displaced by conflicts in your neighbouring regions. Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations And, it is also essential that the fruits of new science and technology are turned to the promotion and preservation of peace, and not to a renewed pursuit and prosecution of war. I think that Africans must be allowed to have a fair say in Council decisions affecting their own continent. 2010. ‘Confronting Planetary Emergencies’ – Speech by President Michael D. Higgins. And we do not say this lightly – we know from our own experience that this will be an immensely challenging task to achieve, requiring enormous courage and difficult compromises. Since the 1970s, a significant concession has been made to the arguments against GDP as an exclusive measure, notably through the development of social indicators: the United Nations Human Development Indicators now include aggregate measures of human capital (sic), health status and educational participation. Ireland’s development policy also focuses heavily on humanitarian assistance or responses that are urgent and cannot be postponed. That connection with which we have lived has not only been exploitative, it has failed on its own terms. While advances in science and technology, such as artificial intelligence, are progressing rapidly, with countless potential benefits to society, the international community must recognise and respond to the risks and threats posed by the incorporation of these new and emerging technologies into weapons and weapon systems. The commitments in the 2030 Agenda are collective commitments – this is where the strength of the UN lies, but our greatest challenge is in delivering the consciousness, the will to realise that the damaging, dysfunctional connection with which we have lived for four decades now between ecology, economy and society has brought us to the edge of a precipice. By the end of the vague, rambling text, you're not really sure what, if anything, it means. A “Daily Telegraph” type of exposé about Irish politicians is long overdue in Ireland. Michael D Higgins: Muintir na hÉireann and friends of Ireland at home and abroad, there can be no greater honour than to have been elected Uachtarán na hÉireann – President of Ireland. In the late seventeenth century, Petty described his endeavour in these terms: “The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using comparative and superlative words, and intellectual arguments, I have taken the course (as a specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have long aimed at) to express myself in terms of number, weight or measure.” [Quote from 1690], As to the project of renewal, I would like to make the contentious assertion that economics as a discipline may gain in considering itself as a craft, not a science. Speech by President Michael D. Higgins “Confronting Planetary Emergencies” OECD Conference (Event details . And, climate change is moving so much faster than the efforts we are expending or enlisting to address it. I've always respected Michael. It is consciously created and recast. (Close to 200,000 of those visits were recorded in the past 48 hours, according to The Irish Times. With the Paris Agreement, we have both the framework and the foundations to move forward. The widespread notion that neo-liberalism as a coherent doctrine doesn’t exist is hardly consistent with what Friedrich von Hayek described as the “gradual encroachment of [the] ideas” that he and a number of like-minded intellectuals endeavoured to promote in the second half of the twentieth century. Ireland is deeply concerned about the devastating impact of conflict on civilians. We must embrace the paradigm shift that is necessary if we are to achieve the sustainability we committed to in 2015 here in New York. Finally, the coming General Assembly session will see some key moments for disarmament. Let us never forget Alan Greenspan’s phrase when advocating against the regulation of Wall Street that the Glass-Steagall Act represented –, These views also differ from neoclassical economy narratives, that envisage potential market’s “failure” – notably in the environmental sphere – through the notion of “externalities.”. This “government of the self”, the notion that men’s economic worth can be defined in terms of human capital and skill sets constitutes a drastic departure from classical liberal doctrine. The answer, I suggest, has to do with obstacles placed in the way of such questions by institutional or ideological falsehoods. The vast majority of the world’s migrants move between countries in a safe and orderly way. We, as an international community, must ask again the leaders on both sides of this conflict to sit down, face-to-face, without delay. When this understanding of the other is attempted by mutual work on agreement on post-conflict opportunities, the parking of alternative narratives of shared values and of course the institutional support given that gives continuity of peace processes. The Principle of Hope. And you have had so many powerful speeches from an African that wants to be an Africa that can be humane. Wealth, which is the subject of political economy, seems on the contrary to be essentially objective and independent of opinion.”. Statement by Ireland at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict, Threats to international peace and security: Linkage between international terrorism and organised crime As we meet, the United Nations and its agencies are under attack, be it through underfunding, withdrawal of support, and now often by the explicit promotion of the most narrow version of a theory of interests by the most powerful, which is the very antithesis to the multilateralism Charter demands. However, unregulated migration exacts a terrible human cost: lives lost at sea and across deserts; and a cost in lives ruined at the hands of traffickers, unscrupulous employers and other exploiters. Lecture at Fordham University by President Michael D. Higgins. We must see and promote the connection between the measures needed to respond to climate change, that will end the exclusions of global poverty, and also meet the sufficiency needs of a global community in terms of food, nutrition, education, health and housing.
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