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Woman-As-Symbol: Intersections Of Indian Nationalism, Gender, And Identity, Shakuntala Rao
Woman-As-Symbol: Intersections Of Indian Nationalism, Gender, And Identity, Shakuntala Rao
Shakuntala Rao
The purpose of this article is to explore the connection between Indian nationalism and gender identity. I provide a critique of Radhakrishnan and Chatterjee's notion of the outer/inner dichotomy of Indian nationalism by stating that religion, in postcolonial India, has emerged as a discursive totality that has subsumed the politics of indigenous or inner identity more so than other rhetoric of caste, tribal, gender, and class. I provide a groundwork for this debate via the writings of Nehru and Gandhi. I conclude, through an analysis of the practices of amniocentesis and Sati, that women and their bodies have been used …
Biblical Authority And Moral Responsibility: The Word Cannot Be Silenced, But Must Not Be Made Void, Miroslav Kis
Biblical Authority And Moral Responsibility: The Word Cannot Be Silenced, But Must Not Be Made Void, Miroslav Kis
Miroslav Kis
No abstract provided.
Retribution, The Death Penalty, And The Limits Of Human Judgment, Tony Roark
Retribution, The Death Penalty, And The Limits Of Human Judgment, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
So serious a matter is capital punishment that we must consider very carefully any claim regarding its justification. Brian Calvert has offered a new version of the "argument from arbitrariness," according to which a retributivist cannot consistently hold that some, but not all, first-degree murderers may justifiably receive the death penalty, when it is conceived to be a unique form of punishment. At the heart of this argument is the line-drawing problem, and I am inclined to this that it is a genuine challenge for the retributivist. I respond on behalf of the retributivist by formulating a line-drawing method that …
"What Ought We To Do? Normativity In Barth's Ethics Of Creation", Scott R. Paeth
"What Ought We To Do? Normativity In Barth's Ethics Of Creation", Scott R. Paeth
Scott R. Paeth
No abstract provided.