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Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Assheuer: Life after bankruptcy - signandsight
The speculators, too, were acting consistently within the established legal framework according to the socially recognised logic of profit maximisation. Politics turns itself into a laughing stock when it resorts to moralising instead of relying upon the
Jürgen Habermas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The central task of Habermas's democratic theory is to provide a normative account of legitimate law. His deliberative democratic model rests on what is perhaps the most complex argument in his philosophical corpus, found in his Between Facts and Norms (1
Justice Across Boundaries
John concludes that Nussbaum’s capabilities approach of developing principles and then applying them to societies around the world, adapting them to each culture makes good sense. Ken is still concerned that the capabilities approach creates a hegemony of
Frankfurt School: Communicative Ethics by Jürgen Habermas 1998
A norm is valid when the foreseeable consequences and side effects of its general observance for the interests and value-orientations of each individual could be jointly accepted by all concerned without coercion.
God in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
efore we can consider God, however, Kant argues that we must discover the proper scope of reason, as only then can we discover our capacity to deal with the notion of God or anything else. Kant's epistemological considerations in his first Critique are th
Kant's Philosophy of Religion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Kant was interested principally in the theoretical status and function of the concept of God. He thus sought to locate the concept of God within a systematically ordered set of basic philosophical principles that account for the order and structure of wor
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Thus Tribe concludes that there is no such thing as society outside of law, and thus no such thing as an unregulated state of affairs. “The legal ‘freedom’ of contract and property came [in the 1930s] to be seen as an illusion, subject as it was to
Philosophy, et cetera: The Source of Morality
Is X good because God commands it, or does God command it because it is good? If the latter, then moral standards exist independently of God. But the former is just a variant of subjectivism - moral truths are fixed by whatever God happens to prefer.
If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural - washingtonpost.com
Such experiments have two important implications. One is that morality is not merely about the decisions people reach but also about the process by which they get there. Another implication, said Adrian Raine, a clinical neuroscientist at the University o
Is China's law eugenic?
These supporters tend not to mention the half a dozen provincial laws passed since 1988 which never mention individual wishes: in Gansu province, for instance, “idiots”, “cretins” and “imbeciles” (not defined in medical terms) are not allowed
H025: A Storm in a Test Tube
For instance, China has already drafted a new law on eugenics and health protection that makes it illegal for people suffering from mental illness, venereal diseases or hepatitis to marry and promises abortions and sterilisations to "avoid new births of i
Press Release - Nanotechnology-Risk, Ethics and Law
Leading environmentalist and former US Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader has named a book co-edited by University of Surrey academic Geoffrey Hunt as one of his top ten summer reads.
NanoEthics - Ethics Journals, Books & Online Media | Springer
Call for Papers NANOETHICS - New as of 2007 > Concentrating on the ethics of Nanoscale technologies > A forum for informed discussion of ethical issues related to nanotechnology > Presenting a philosophically and scientifically rigorous examination of eth
VOA News - NanoEthics: The Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology
"Nanotechnology gives us a way to turn around the problem of unfair distribution of healthcare," Ferrari points out, adding that scientists could then focus on developing the technology that will specifically address the healthcare disparity from the begi
Legal Rights of Robots
Robots and software persons are entitled to protection of life and liberty. But does “life” imply the right of a program to execute, or merely to be stored? Denying execution would be like keeping a human in a permanent coma – which seems unconstitu
International Justice (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
International justice has only recently become a serious topic within political philosophy. Philosophers have, of course, long debated certain moral aspects of international politics; the morality of warfare and international relations has always been a c
Economic inequality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Economic inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. The term typically refers to inequality among individuals and groups within a society, but can also refer to inequality among nations. There is debate as to what
First patent claimed on man-made life form, and challenged
The researchers filed their patent claim on the artificial organism and on its genome. Genetically modified life forms have been patented before; but this is the first patent claim for a creature whose genome might be c
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