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Full-Text Articles in Ethics and Political Philosophy
Plurality, Precarity, Nos/Otras: Searching For A New Guarantee Of Dignity In The Contemporary World, Antonia Salathe
Plurality, Precarity, Nos/Otras: Searching For A New Guarantee Of Dignity In The Contemporary World, Antonia Salathe
Senior Projects Spring 2023
One cannot comprehend the topography of our contemporary globe without seeing the chain-link lines that fractalize sand, sea, and soil. Contemporary global politics is marked by a refugee crisis of colossal proportion. At its core, the contemporary refugee crisis is perpetuated by the fact that there is no framework to apprehend the personhood of the refugee, let alone an organized and attentive global process for directing the flow of vulnerable persons toward safety.
I argue that in order to ease the burdens placed on vulnerable people we must return to philosophy and look at the refugee crisis for what it …
Facing Human Rights: Theorizing Out Of The Experience Of Suffering, Patrick Ahern
Facing Human Rights: Theorizing Out Of The Experience Of Suffering, Patrick Ahern
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
In contending that “the freedom of philosophy is nothing but the capacity to lend a voice to unfreedom,” Adorno recognized that the role of philosophy is to illuminate the deformity of that which is deformed in the structures of power and the institutions that preserve the status quo. A critical treatment of those concepts that obfuscate the realization of emancipation led Adorno, along with Horkheimer, to claim that, “the purpose of human rights was to promise happiness even where power is lacking.” In other words, the language of human rights served to stifle the experiences of the oppressed classes under …
Human Rights In Chinese Tradition, Stephen C. Angle
Human Rights In Chinese Tradition, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
On Waldron's Critique Of Raz On Human Rights, Joseph Raz
On Waldron's Critique Of Raz On Human Rights, Joseph Raz
Faculty Scholarship
This commentary responds to Waldron’s “Human Rights: A Critique of the Raz/Rawls Approach”. It points out that some supposed criticisms are nothing more than observations on conditions that any account of rights must meet, and that Waldron’s objections to Raz are due to misunderstanding his thesis and its theoretical goal. The short comment tries to clarify that goal.
Hannah Arendt And The Political Meaning Of Human Dignity, John Macready
Hannah Arendt And The Political Meaning Of Human Dignity, John Macready
John Macready
Framing The Issues In Moral Terms Iii: Rights And Right Conduct, Robert Williams
Framing The Issues In Moral Terms Iii: Rights And Right Conduct, Robert Williams
Robert E. Williams Jr.
The development of a global human rights culture has had a profound effect on the way discussions of military ethics are framed. This is most apparent in the development of the “responsibility to protect” norm amid a broader debate concerning military intervention to stop serious human rights abuses. With policymakers and international lawyers, many just war theorists have adopted an understanding of military ethics centered on human rights. This essay describes the development of the rights-based perspective on the use of force and its impact on key questions regarding the resort to war and just conduct in war.
Wouldn't Future People Like To Know? A Compensation-Based Approach To Global Climate Change, Trevor Grant Hedberg
Wouldn't Future People Like To Know? A Compensation-Based Approach To Global Climate Change, Trevor Grant Hedberg
Masters Theses
Anthropogenic global climate change (GCC), understood as changes to the Earth’s climate system resulting from greenhouse gas emissions caused by human beings, has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental problems in human history. Proposed responses to climate change typically focus on either mitigation or adaptation. Mitigation refers to the process of lessening the effects of GCC, most often by reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases. Adaptation refers to the process of helping those who will be adversely affected by GCC adapt to the environmental changes to avoid being harmed. There is, however, a third approach to the issue …
Just War And Human Rights: Fighting With Right Intention, Todd Allan Burkhardt
Just War And Human Rights: Fighting With Right Intention, Todd Allan Burkhardt
Doctoral Dissertations
Under the nonideal conditions of our world, war is sometimes morally permissible, perhaps even required. Just war theory aims to make sense of this. It does so, on my view, by allowing war only if pursued with ‘right intention.’ In order permissibly to go to war, a state must not only have a just cause and limit its war-making activity to that necessary to vindicate the just cause, both required in order to engage in war with ‘right intention,’ but it must also seek to vindicate its just cause in a manner likely to yield a ‘just and lasting peace.’ …
Olympism, Ethics And The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Preparations: An Ethical Analysis, Dana Poeta
Olympism, Ethics And The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Preparations: An Ethical Analysis, Dana Poeta
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Olympism is the underlying philosophy of the modern Olympic Games. It provides the ethical foundation of the Olympic Movement. This thesis defends the maintenance of human rights as essential for the achievement of Olympism. The problem investigated and evaluated in this thesis is the preparation for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. A critical analysis and account of the ethical demeanor in regard to the actualization of Olympism is provided. By comparing relevant current issues with past Olympic Games, the recurring problems in achieving Olympism are identified. The conclusion emphasizing the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) responsibility for ensuring that Olympism, …
Using Rights To Counter “Gender-Specific” Wrongs, Theresa Tobin
Using Rights To Counter “Gender-Specific” Wrongs, Theresa Tobin
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
One popular strategy of opposition to practices of female genital cutting (FCG) is rooted in the global feminist movement. Arguing that women’s rights are human rights, global feminists contend that practices of FGC are a culturally specific manifestation of gender-based oppression that violates a number of rights. Many African feminists resist a women’s rights approach. They argue that by focusing on gender as the primary axis of oppression affecting the African communities where FGC occurs, a women’s rights approach has misrepresented African women as passive victims who need to be rescued from African men and has obscured the role of …
United Nations Tribunals And Complicity In Human Rights Violations: The Assassination Of Zoran Djindjic, Ibpp Editor
United Nations Tribunals And Complicity In Human Rights Violations: The Assassination Of Zoran Djindjic, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article presents a hypothesis of untoward consequences through the reification of human rights.
Counter-Intelligence On Espionage In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor
Counter-Intelligence On Espionage In The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article analyzes the consensual Western perception that many allegations of espionage made by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) are violations of universal human rights.
Trends. The Case For Reflexively Condemning Reflexively Condemning Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor
Trends. The Case For Reflexively Condemning Reflexively Condemning Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses whether it is viable to compare different human rights violations.
Trends. Counterterrorist And Human Rights Logic And Illogic, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Counterterrorist And Human Rights Logic And Illogic, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses and evaluates Human Rights Watch's critique of the United States Commission on Terrorism and its decision to lift restrictions on the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit foreign informants who have been involved in serious human rights abuses.
Trends. The People's Republic Of China And Permanent Normal Trading Relations: A Run-Up And Aftermath Of More Smoke Than Fire?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses the vote of the United States (US) House of Representatives to approve permanent normal trading relations (PTNR) with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Human rights violations are discussed.
Trends. Hissen Habre And Human Rights: Right Or Wrong?, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Hissen Habre And Human Rights: Right Or Wrong?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article discusses which high authorities (or national leaders), inside a given country and outside it, may be held accountable for human rights violations in given place.
Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor
Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article identifies several psychological pathways that governments and human rights organizations can employ to minimize human rights violations against children.
The Professional Academic And Hubris: The Case Of Yongyi Song, Ibpp Editor
The Professional Academic And Hubris: The Case Of Yongyi Song, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes a reification of academic activities in a world where there may be many kings. This reification is often employed as a vehicle to support human and civil rights initiatives. Unfortunately, this vehicle may mitigate against such rights.
Trends. Human Rights And Mental Health: What Happens When The Right Are Wrong?, Ibpp Editor
Trends. Human Rights And Mental Health: What Happens When The Right Are Wrong?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
In this analysis the author discusses the moral and ethical criteria of those who seek to prevent human rights violations.
Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Articles & Book Chapters
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Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Transcending Community: Some Thoughts On Havel And Bergson, Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
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Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery