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Harmony From Confucian, Greek, Liberal, And Global Perspectives, Chenyang Li Jan 2016

Harmony From Confucian, Greek, Liberal, And Global Perspectives, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.


Care And Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, And Gilligan Comparatively, Chenyang Li Jan 2016

Care And Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, And Gilligan Comparatively, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.


Nehru And The Question Of Communalism, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Nov 2015

Nehru And The Question Of Communalism, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

the present paper explores Nehru's ideas about communalism.


Nehru And His Conception Of Liberty, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Nov 2015

Nehru And His Conception Of Liberty, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Pt. Nehru , the first PM of India laid the basis of modern India. the present paper explores evolution of his ideas of liberty. these ideas he implemented successfully in the country. The india of today has liberty available to all, Pt. Nehru's ideas are instrumental in its implementation. the initial age ideas of any leader needs to be explored to find out the later age policy decisions of the political leader.


Chapter 4 (Draft): John Locke And The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Very Similar Colonial Prejudice Found Its Way Into The Natural Rights Justification Of Private Property, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall Oct 2015

Chapter 4 (Draft): John Locke And The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Very Similar Colonial Prejudice Found Its Way Into The Natural Rights Justification Of Private Property, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall

Karl Widerquist

This chapter is a preliminary draft of Chapter 4 of the book, "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy." The role of this chapter is to show that what we call "the Hobbesian Hypothesis" is an essential premise in John Locke's justification of private property. The Hobbesian hypothesis, in this context, is the claim that everyone is better off in a society with private land and resource ownership (even if they own no land or resources) than they could reasonably except to be in a society in which these resources remained unowned and people lived as hunter-gatherers. This chapter does not …


Sulle Spirali Regressive Della Nuova Restaurazione, In "Il Ponte. Rivista Di Politica Economia E Cultura Fondata Da Piero Calamandrei", Lxxi, N. 7 (2015), Pp. 58-62., Marco Solinas Aug 2015

Sulle Spirali Regressive Della Nuova Restaurazione, In "Il Ponte. Rivista Di Politica Economia E Cultura Fondata Da Piero Calamandrei", Lxxi, N. 7 (2015), Pp. 58-62., Marco Solinas

Marco Solinas

No abstract provided.


Chapter 3 (Draft) The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Colonial Prejudice Became An Essential Premise In The Most Popular Justification Of Government, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall Aug 2015

Chapter 3 (Draft) The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Colonial Prejudice Became An Essential Premise In The Most Popular Justification Of Government, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall

Karl Widerquist

This chapter is a draft of Chapter Three of the book that Grant McCall and I are writing. The book is called, "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy." This chapter shows now Hobbes introduce an empirical claim into his most influential justification of the state. We call this claim the Hobbesian hypothesis: everyone is better off under the authority of a sovereign government than everyone would be outside of that authority. The chapter argue that this hypothesis is a strong, counterfactual, empirical claim about people in small-scale stateless societies that has not been well-established by empirical evidence.


Ambedkar And Constituent Assembly, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Apr 2015

Ambedkar And Constituent Assembly, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Ambedkar was instrumental in drafting of India constitution but he had his own vision for the constitution.


Karl Marx And His Ideas About Inequality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Mar 2015

Karl Marx And His Ideas About Inequality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Marx has looked inequality in his own particular way. He has nowhere discussed about inequality in direct terms but his ideas about it are widely spread in his writings.


Marx And Poverty In India, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Mar 2015

Marx And Poverty In India, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Marx analyses the causes of Indian poverty. In his opinion it is due to British exploitation.


Authentic Identities, Andrew Pierce Jan 2015

Authentic Identities, Andrew Pierce

Andrew J. Pierce

Authenticity has played a central role in modern philosophical discourse, where it has often been interpreted individualistically. But concerns about authenticity also arise in relation to questions of group membership, and become especially pressing in the case of minority and/or disadvantaged groups. In this essay, I develop an alternative conception of authenticity based on the intersubjective relation of trust. Such a relational conception is better equipped to deal with both the authenticity of individuals, and that of groups, which, I ultimately argue, are two sides of the same coin.


Biopolítica E Soberania Em Foucault: Uma Resposta Às Críticas De Agamben E Esposito., Andre De Macedo Duarte Jan 2015

Biopolítica E Soberania Em Foucault: Uma Resposta Às Críticas De Agamben E Esposito., Andre De Macedo Duarte

Andre de Macedo Duarte

No abstract provided.


Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi Jan 2015

Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.


Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters With Artworks, Helen A. Fielding Jan 2015

Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters With Artworks, Helen A. Fielding

Helen A Fielding

Phenomenally strong artworks have the potential to anchor us in the world and to cultivate our perception. For the most part, we barely notice the world around us, as we are too often elsewhere, texting, coordinating schedules, planning ahead, navigating what needs to be done. This is the level of our age that shapes the ways we encounter the world and others. In such a world it is no wonder we no longer trust our senses. But as feminists have long argued, grounding our thinking in embodied experience opens it up to difference and helps us to resist the colonization …


Filosofía De La Responsabilidad Extracontractual: Un Llamado Al Debate, Jorge Luis Fabra Dec 2014

Filosofía De La Responsabilidad Extracontractual: Un Llamado Al Debate, Jorge Luis Fabra

Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora

Recientemente se ha comenzado a hablar con fuerza de la “filosofía de la responsabilidad extracontractual” en Latinoamérica. La publicación de varias compilaciones de artículos, la traducción de uno de los textos fundacionales del área, y la publicación del primer libro con una contribución original al debate en español han hecho que este estudio filosófico se consolide un cuerpo académico por mérito propio. Sin embargo, a pesar de estos logros, la idea de una “filosofía de la responsabilidad extracontractual” puede sonar extraña al jurista práctico. Como señala Zipursky, desde la perspectiva de los jueces o abogados, la responsabilidad extracontractual –que se …


Nehru And His Views On Secularism, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Nov 2014

Nehru And His Views On Secularism, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Nehru is instrumental in establishing secularism in India. This paper explores his philosphy of secularism.


Is Food Marketing Making Us Fat? Fat Cats Vs Dogmatists., Stephen S. Holden Jul 2014

Is Food Marketing Making Us Fat? Fat Cats Vs Dogmatists., Stephen S. Holden

Stephen S Holden

For many, it seems obvious that food marketing is making us fat. The anger and outrage that was once evoked by tobacco companies is now being repackaged and aimed at ‘Big Food’ (Hennessy, 2014). But is it justified, is food marketing the cause of obesity? And in any case, does outrage and dogmatism help solve the problem? This paper suggests that blaming the marketers, both Big Food and "lazy leisure", is a disputable claim, and dangerously shifts responsibility from individuals to external agents.


Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject Of Art And Architecture, Gavin W. Keeney May 2014

Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject Of Art And Architecture, Gavin W. Keeney

Gavin W Keeney

Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art and Architecture is a series of essays delineating the gray areas and black zones in present-day cultural production with, in Part One (The Gray and the Black), an implicit critique of neoliberal capitalism and its assault on the humanities through the pseudo-scientific and pseudo-empirical biases of academic and professional disciplines. Initially surveying the shift from Cultural Ecology to Cultural Studies to Cognitive Capitalism, the essays of Part Two (What is “Franciscan” Ontology?) return to certain lost causes in the historical development of modernity and post-modernity, foremost the recourse to artistic production as both a …


मानवेन्द्र M N Roy Neo Humanism And Morality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. May 2014

मानवेन्द्र M N Roy Neo Humanism And Morality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

This paper is in Hindi M N Roy was a great Indian philosopher. His philosophy neo humanism has been explored with reference to morality.


Structural Racism, Institutional Agency, And Disrespect, Andrew Pierce Jan 2014

Structural Racism, Institutional Agency, And Disrespect, Andrew Pierce

Andrew J. Pierce

In recent work, Joshua Glasgow has offered a definition of racism that is supposed to put to rest the debates between cognitive, behavioral, attitudinal, and institutionalist definitions. The key to such a definition, he argues, is the idea of disrespect. He claims: “X is racist if and only if Xis disrespectful toward members of racialized group R as Rs.” While this definition may capture an important commonality among cognitive, behavioral, and attitudinal accounts of racism, I argue that his attempt to expand the definition to cover institutional or “structural” racism is less persuasive. Alternatively, I argue that structural racism must …


Michel Foucault E As Lutas Políticas Do Presente: Para Além Do Sujeito Identitário De Direitos, Andre De Macedo Duarte, Maria Rita De Assis César Jan 2014

Michel Foucault E As Lutas Políticas Do Presente: Para Além Do Sujeito Identitário De Direitos, Andre De Macedo Duarte, Maria Rita De Assis César

Andre de Macedo Duarte

ABSTRACT. The text discusses Foucauldian notions such as aesthetics of existence and subjectivation, employing them in order to clarify new forms of political action promoted by autonomous collectives such as the Slut Walk, whose queer inspiration establishes a clear distinction against traditional identity movements. We argue that the political actions conducted by this particular collective can be best understood by relating them to Foucault’s arguments on the issue of identity, as well as to his interest in surpassing a rights acknowledgment centered politics. For Foucault, as much as for the Slut Walk collective, it matters not only to struggle for …


Sparrow's 2012 Argument That Robotic Weapons Are Desastrous For Peace (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2014

Sparrow's 2012 Argument That Robotic Weapons Are Desastrous For Peace (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

This argument map represents the argumentation of Sparrow, R. (2012). "Just say No" to Drones. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, M 1932-4529/12(SPRING 2012), 56-63. doi: 10.1109/MTS.2012.2185275. The argument map is open for debate in AGORA-net, search for map ID 9712.


Heyns's 2013 Argument That All States Should Declare Moratoria On Lethal Autonomous Robots (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2014

Heyns's 2013 Argument That All States Should Declare Moratoria On Lethal Autonomous Robots (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

This argument map represents an argumentation from Heyns, C. (2013). Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns (Vol. A/HRC/23/47). S.l.: United Nations. Human Rights Council. The argument map is open for debate in AGORA-net, search for map ID 9206.


Heyns's 2013 Argument In The Guardian That Lethal Autonomous Robots (Lars) Should Be Banned (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann Jan 2014

Heyns's 2013 Argument In The Guardian That Lethal Autonomous Robots (Lars) Should Be Banned (Argument Map), Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

This argument map represents the argumentation of Heyns, C. (2013). Robot wars: after drones, a line we must not cross. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/19/robot-wars-drones-life-death-decisions. The argument map is open for debate in AGORA-net, search for map ID 9205.


應對儒家傳統面臨的五個挑戰, Chenyang Li Jan 2014

應對儒家傳統面臨的五個挑戰, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

本文討論儒家思想傳統在近代和現代所面臨的五個主要的挑戰:科學,民主,女性主義,環境主義,以及儒家自身如何生存下去的挑戰。


儒家的哲学理念与当今国际政治秩序, Chenyang Li Jan 2014

儒家的哲学理念与当今国际政治秩序, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.


Confucian_Conception_Of_Freedom, Chenyang Li Jan 2014

Confucian_Conception_Of_Freedom, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.


Review Of Raymond Corbey And Annette Lanjouw's The Politics Of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships With Other Animals, Ian Werkheiser Jan 2014

Review Of Raymond Corbey And Annette Lanjouw's The Politics Of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships With Other Animals, Ian Werkheiser

Ian Werkheiser

No abstract provided.


Four Challenges Confronting A Moral Conception Of Universal Human Rights, Eric Blumenson Jan 2014

Four Challenges Confronting A Moral Conception Of Universal Human Rights, Eric Blumenson

Eric Blumenson

This Essay describes some fundamental debates concerning the nature and possibility of universal human rights, conceived as a species of justice rather than law. It identifies four claims entailed by such rights and some significant problems each claim confronts. The designation “universal human rights” explicitly asserts three of them: paradigmatic human rights purport to be (1) universal, in that their protections and obligations bind every society, regardless of its laws and mores; (2) human, in that the rights belong equally to every person by virtue of one’s humanity, regardless of character, social standing, disabilities, or other individual attributes; and (3) …


In Search Of A Just Political Economy: Why We Should Go Beyond Rawls's Pod And Schefczyk's Ruws, Fabian Schuppert Jan 2014

In Search Of A Just Political Economy: Why We Should Go Beyond Rawls's Pod And Schefczyk's Ruws, Fabian Schuppert

Fabian Schuppert

No abstract provided.