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In The Wake Of Thoreau: Four Morden Legal Philosophers And The Theory Of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Stephen R. Alton
In The Wake Of Thoreau: Four Morden Legal Philosophers And The Theory Of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Stephen R. Alton
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This Article opens with a discussion of Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience and then examines the ideas of four modem legal philosophers, Joseph Raz, Kent Greenawalt, John Rawls, and Ronald Dworkin, on the subject. Next, the Article compares the respective thinking of all five men regarding the circumstances that would justify the use of civil disobedience. To facilitate the comparison as well as to make it more relevant to the reader, the Article examines five related contemporary illustrations involving situations in which the use of civil disobedience might arguably be morally justified. This Article concludes with some general thoughts on …
Self-Paternalism In The Marketplace, Bailey Kuklin
Self-Paternalism In The Marketplace, Bailey Kuklin
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The Gaps Between The Fingers Of The Invisible Hand, Bailey Kuklin
The Gaps Between The Fingers Of The Invisible Hand, Bailey Kuklin
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Contradiction And Revision: Progressive Feminist Legal Scholars Respond To Mary Joe Frug, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Judi Greenberg, Martha Minow
Contradiction And Revision: Progressive Feminist Legal Scholars Respond To Mary Joe Frug, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Judi Greenberg, Martha Minow
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The Relevance Of Coherence, Joseph Raz
The Relevance Of Coherence, Joseph Raz
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Coherence is in vogue. Coherence accounts of truth and of knowledge have been in contention for many years. Coherence explanations of morality and of law are a newer breed. I suspect that like so much else in practical philosophy today they owe much of their popularity to John Rawls. His writings on reflective equilibrium, while designed as part of a philosophical strategy which suspends inquiry into the fundamental questions of moral philosophy, had the opposite effect. They inspired much constructive reflection about these questions, largely veering toward coherence as the right interpretation both of reflective equilibrium and of moral philosophy. …