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Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action (by Mathieu Deflem)
First, this collection seeks to acquaint legal scholars, in the broadest sense of the term, who are as yet not familiar with Habermas’s perspective, with an innovative contribution to the study of modern societies, specifically concerning issues and probl
Book review: Habermas, Modernity and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem (review by Katherine Chiste)
Habermas cautions that "law can be preserved as legitimate only if enfranchised citizens switch from the role of private legal subjects and take the perspective of participants who are engaged in the process of reaching understanding about the rules for t
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
Capability approach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Capability Approach is a conceptual framework developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum for evaluating social states in terms of human well-being (welfare). It emphasizes functional capabilities ("substantial freedoms", such as the ability to live
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.
Cicero: De Officiis
DE OFFICIIS Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated by Walter Miller. Loeb edn. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1913.
Baron d'Holbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support t
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
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.
There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew, Roy Abraham Varghese
In one of the biggest religion news stories of the new millennium, the Associated Press announced that Professor Antony Flew, the world's leading atheist, now believes in God.
Where Does Morality Come From?
John begins by asking Ken where morality can possibly originate, and Ken describes one of the most common theories of morality: what God says is right is right, and what God says is wrong is wrong.
LIBERTARIANISM
Nozick's Entitlement Theory is based on the idea that only free market exchanges respect people as equals--for him, as "ends in themselves". Indeed, even if a free market did not, for instance, produce the most overall well being on Nozick's view, it woul
Property (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Property is a general term for rules governing access to and control of land and other material resources. Because these rules are disputed, both in regard to their general shape and in regard to their particular application, there are interesting philoso
GiftedBooks.com - Guiding Gifted Learners
It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression
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