Book Review: Rights: Sociological Perspectives
... at an international level. Finally, in chapter six, Carlo Ruzza draws on anti-racist struggles at European Union level to give a new twist to the consideration of rights as the consequence of political arrangements. Ruzza approaches rights as strategic resources to be employed by contenders for powe ...
... at an international level. Finally, in chapter six, Carlo Ruzza draws on anti-racist struggles at European Union level to give a new twist to the consideration of rights as the consequence of political arrangements. Ruzza approaches rights as strategic resources to be employed by contenders for powe ...
the discipline of ethics
... injury must be the real cause of the injury; and the person must have voluntarily inflicted the injury. • Such conditions generally must be met in today's law. 2) Compensation is due if real injury or real privilege is based on the past actions of one's group, otherwise injustice wins. ...
... injury must be the real cause of the injury; and the person must have voluntarily inflicted the injury. • Such conditions generally must be met in today's law. 2) Compensation is due if real injury or real privilege is based on the past actions of one's group, otherwise injustice wins. ...
What does cultural difference require of human rights?
... Habermas’s co-originality thesis Fuller: “The first and most obvious lies in a failure to achieve rules at all, so that every issue must be decided on an ad hoc basis. The other routes are: (1) a failure to publicize, or at least to make available to the affected party, the rules he is expected to ...
... Habermas’s co-originality thesis Fuller: “The first and most obvious lies in a failure to achieve rules at all, so that every issue must be decided on an ad hoc basis. The other routes are: (1) a failure to publicize, or at least to make available to the affected party, the rules he is expected to ...
The Forgotten Principles of American Government
... including rights to life, health, liberty, and property. Those rights do not depend on government or any other person’s acquiescence. They are intrinsic to being human. Again, to see the importance of this, it is useful to contrast Jefferson’s position with an alternative. Jean-Jacques Rousseau held ...
... including rights to life, health, liberty, and property. Those rights do not depend on government or any other person’s acquiescence. They are intrinsic to being human. Again, to see the importance of this, it is useful to contrast Jefferson’s position with an alternative. Jean-Jacques Rousseau held ...
Philosophy 220
... Humanae Vitae), the Roman Catholic church has spelled out the consequences of Aquinas’s version of NLT for a range of human sexual practices. ...
... Humanae Vitae), the Roman Catholic church has spelled out the consequences of Aquinas’s version of NLT for a range of human sexual practices. ...
remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse
... through ombudsperson offices or government-run complaints ...
... through ombudsperson offices or government-run complaints ...
American Government/Civics Review
... • Who was it written by? Mostly the work of Thomas Jefferson but was assigned to a committee of five members. • Who was it written for? The American Colonists, The British Government (King George III and Parliament, and the people of the world. ...
... • Who was it written by? Mostly the work of Thomas Jefferson but was assigned to a committee of five members. • Who was it written for? The American Colonists, The British Government (King George III and Parliament, and the people of the world. ...
Ndulo Think Piece - World Justice Project
... between particular ends or particular people, and which are there for the use of everyone, for the purpose for which people will decide to use them. The concept assumes the existence of inalienable rights and liberties which governments should not impinge upon or violate. Predominant among such righ ...
... between particular ends or particular people, and which are there for the use of everyone, for the purpose for which people will decide to use them. The concept assumes the existence of inalienable rights and liberties which governments should not impinge upon or violate. Predominant among such righ ...
Ethics Power Point slides Lecture Notes Page
... • Nature hath made man so equal in the faculties of the body and the mind…the weakest has strength to kill the strongest…by secret machination or by confederacy with others. • As to the faculties of the mind…I find yet a greater equality among men, for such is the nature of men…they will hardly beli ...
... • Nature hath made man so equal in the faculties of the body and the mind…the weakest has strength to kill the strongest…by secret machination or by confederacy with others. • As to the faculties of the mind…I find yet a greater equality among men, for such is the nature of men…they will hardly beli ...
Ethics in a Pluralist World
... Immanuel Kant draws a distinction between ethics and right (Recht) or law. The reason for this distinction is his division of freedom into internal and external. This distinction, on which the main division of the doctrine of morals as a whole also rests, is based on this: that the concept of freedo ...
... Immanuel Kant draws a distinction between ethics and right (Recht) or law. The reason for this distinction is his division of freedom into internal and external. This distinction, on which the main division of the doctrine of morals as a whole also rests, is based on this: that the concept of freedo ...
Normative Ethical Theory
... There is both a negative (don’t treat them as means) and a positive (treat them as ends in themselves) requirement contained in the formulation. The positive requirement is captured by Kant with the notion of dignity, which all rational agents possess by virtue of their being rational. ...
... There is both a negative (don’t treat them as means) and a positive (treat them as ends in themselves) requirement contained in the formulation. The positive requirement is captured by Kant with the notion of dignity, which all rational agents possess by virtue of their being rational. ...
Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement LRRS
... We agree with the proposed approach however we note that human rights are not explicitly referenced in the vision or principles, nor is there any reference to accountability or remedy. 3. Do you agree with the Vision of the Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement? No We suggest the vision be amen ...
... We agree with the proposed approach however we note that human rights are not explicitly referenced in the vision or principles, nor is there any reference to accountability or remedy. 3. Do you agree with the Vision of the Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement? No We suggest the vision be amen ...
History of Philosophy
... Contractual theories emphasised the rationality of men, who understood the necessity of an agreement among themselves to set up a system of protective measures against the violence. According to these theories society and a system of political institutions - government/state or political power are ...
... Contractual theories emphasised the rationality of men, who understood the necessity of an agreement among themselves to set up a system of protective measures against the violence. According to these theories society and a system of political institutions - government/state or political power are ...
Mar 27 - University of San Diego
... 1. Principle of Utility: An action or policy is right if it maximizes good consequences over bad consequences for all beings that stand to be affected by that action or policy. 2. Egalitarian Principle: Each person (or sentient being) to count for one and none should count for more than one. ...
... 1. Principle of Utility: An action or policy is right if it maximizes good consequences over bad consequences for all beings that stand to be affected by that action or policy. 2. Egalitarian Principle: Each person (or sentient being) to count for one and none should count for more than one. ...
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
... Introduction to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is seeking to employ a Solicitor as Legal Intake Co – ordinator in our Human Rights Law Program. We are looking for a passionate lawyer with a commitment to social justice who wants to be part of one of Australia’s b ...
... Introduction to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre is seeking to employ a Solicitor as Legal Intake Co – ordinator in our Human Rights Law Program. We are looking for a passionate lawyer with a commitment to social justice who wants to be part of one of Australia’s b ...
BUSINESS ETHICS
... to a white male, but that does not necessarily mean she was acting unethically. Should an individual obey the law even if it would be unethical to do so? Under the theory of civil disobedience espoused by Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi and others, an immoral law deserves to be disobeyed. Can you ...
... to a white male, but that does not necessarily mean she was acting unethically. Should an individual obey the law even if it would be unethical to do so? Under the theory of civil disobedience espoused by Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi and others, an immoral law deserves to be disobeyed. Can you ...
Moral Theory: a Non-Consequentialist Approach
... field, commonly speak of „quality of life years‟ (qalys) and similar measures for reducing the value of all human existence to some common denominator. Such approaches are, of course, especially attractive to an era of bureaucratic planning and economic rationalism. They are also increasingly corrup ...
... field, commonly speak of „quality of life years‟ (qalys) and similar measures for reducing the value of all human existence to some common denominator. Such approaches are, of course, especially attractive to an era of bureaucratic planning and economic rationalism. They are also increasingly corrup ...
The Basis of Moral Knowledge
... In making moral choices, the most rational choice has to be made on the basis of whether or not the action could be generalizable. We have to ask ourselves, what if everyone acted in the same way? Therefore the test of a principle's rationality is its universalizability. This essentially makes moral ...
... In making moral choices, the most rational choice has to be made on the basis of whether or not the action could be generalizable. We have to ask ourselves, what if everyone acted in the same way? Therefore the test of a principle's rationality is its universalizability. This essentially makes moral ...
Ethics Theories
... Because we are the highest form of evolution? Why should we have these rights more so than other animals? How do we know what kinds of rights we should have in order to function as human with “rational elements”? Is right to liberty sufficient? Right to food, shelter, decent living, health care, ...
... Because we are the highest form of evolution? Why should we have these rights more so than other animals? How do we know what kinds of rights we should have in order to function as human with “rational elements”? Is right to liberty sufficient? Right to food, shelter, decent living, health care, ...
Social and Economic Rights: A Critique
... social rights against civil and political rights. In fact, the Soviet Bloc did not provide fair distribution of economic and social resources, but it argued that although it might not have been adequately protecting free speech it was providing the right to social security. It balanced one set of ri ...
... social rights against civil and political rights. In fact, the Soviet Bloc did not provide fair distribution of economic and social resources, but it argued that although it might not have been adequately protecting free speech it was providing the right to social security. It balanced one set of ri ...
Major Ethical Theories - Michigan State University
... the few for the many The moral relevance of special relationships ...
... the few for the many The moral relevance of special relationships ...
Preface
... – One where it is possible to keep people from acquiring the property – What is not excludable? ...
... – One where it is possible to keep people from acquiring the property – What is not excludable? ...
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici
... achieve more than they could in isolation. Despite foundational discrepancies in their writings, each philosopher fundamentally agreed that the society which flourishes is that where the people surrender some liberty under the auspice that others will do the same, thus creating a collective understa ...
... achieve more than they could in isolation. Despite foundational discrepancies in their writings, each philosopher fundamentally agreed that the society which flourishes is that where the people surrender some liberty under the auspice that others will do the same, thus creating a collective understa ...
Does Liberalism Need Natural Rights?
... issue of whether one has a right to do moral wrong. However we divide the public and private aspects of morality, and however we distinguish between actions and conditions of actions, the upshot of a rights claim is that someone else is morally bound to do or to refrain from doing something with res ...
... issue of whether one has a right to do moral wrong. However we divide the public and private aspects of morality, and however we distinguish between actions and conditions of actions, the upshot of a rights claim is that someone else is morally bound to do or to refrain from doing something with res ...
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... situation if, and, only if, the person’s reason for carrying out the action is a reason that he or she would be willing to have every person act on, in any similar situation. O If I am not willing to have everyone act in this way, even toward me, then it is morally wrong for me to act in this way to ...
... situation if, and, only if, the person’s reason for carrying out the action is a reason that he or she would be willing to have every person act on, in any similar situation. O If I am not willing to have everyone act in this way, even toward me, then it is morally wrong for me to act in this way to ...