... effort and one or more ofthe other bases of desert are implied in the conservative standard of justice The policy implications ofthe conservative view of justice are illustrated in standard ... (Narveson 2002, p 143) There is the benefit, the bestower ofthe benefit, andthe person who deserves the benefit The crucial factor is the person who bestows the benefit because she identifies those ... Some of these problems are the difficulty of measuring desert, the prospects of unwarranted coercive interventions in the lives of citizens, the impossibility of comparing the relative deserts of...
... that the happy soul of Daybreak, the poet of Zarathustra who on the heights of Sils Maria dreamt himself ‘6,000 feet above man and time’, the melancholic ofThe Wanderer and His Shadow’ andthe ... piety andthe good should prove tinder for the incandescent spirits ofthe great warmongers, the zealots of a new order There is enough of blood, of domination, of mastery, will and cruelty, of ... redescribe their predecessors and place themselves at the culmination ofthe past andthe promise ofthe future, even to the extreme of turning the fragile pax Europa into a scene of voicing...
... lens ofthe State of Nature story about the origins ofthe concept of knowledge I argue that we can understand the wrong in terms of epistemic objectification, and I explain that notion by way of ... ‘‘monster’’ andthe rehabilitated juridical subject] and to constitute under the authority of medicine, psychology or criminology, an individual in whom the offender ofthe law andthe object of scientific ... out, the members ofthe jury stick with their prejudiced perception ofthe defendant, formed principally by the racial stereotypes ofthe day Atticus Finch challenges them to dispense with these...
... for the Professional body The first row shows the number of participants in each ofthe focus groups while the second row shows the mix of male and female participants The third row describes the ... hold of financial documents and then second of all, I don’t think they’d understand them unless they had some sort of accounting or financial background… they’d be more likely to understand the ... sites: the four sites which are also the focus ofthe present study The questionnaire explored students’ perceptions ofthe purpose of accounting information, the objectives of business and their...
... in the wrist due to gout [6,8,9] The prevalence of gout in the USA ranges between 0.5–2.8% in men and 0.1–0.6% in women [2] The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of ... at the carpal-metacarpal joint at the base ofthe thumb The report stated that the radiographs were otherwise normal The patient's symptoms worsened with increased pain and swelling over the ... in part to the continuous aging ofthe population as well as the widespread useof diuretics for treatment of hypertension [4] Gout is a clinical syndrome caused by the deposition of monosodium...
... than the parents imagine If this happens the chances of a breakdown in the relationship between the parents andthe child, even to the extreme point where the child rejects the non-genetic father, ... secrecy in the family, more speciWcally the nondisclosure by the parents to the child (There are other elements regarding secrecy andthe family, such as between the ‘parents’, extended family and wider ... to the child, and why there is less open acceptance of DI at a wider societal level This is linked to the wider topic ofthe importance of heredity and genetic relatedness; however, due to the...
... counselling Other volumes address themes relevant to all professional groups, such as the nature of a profession, the function and value of codes of ethics, andthe demands of confidentiality The subject ... Tables of early Rome, andthe laws of ancient Greece all placed both the property andthe body ofthe debtor, as well as those of his kin, in the hands ofthe creditor.2 The ancient creditor had the ... every profession of an ethical code of conduct which attempts to formalise its values and standards These codes of conduct raise a number of questions about the status of a ‘profession’ andthe consequent...
... Because of their disregard for consequences, deontological theories ofethics are similar to inherent aesthetic theories in that they both have little or no regard for the consequences ofthe ... overuse other information to keep from having to search for more.” [8] Aesthetics andEthics Within the field of ethics, the terms moral values, moral principles, and human values refer to the ... moral value, they may disagree on when it should be used Deontological theories ofethics propose that people should use moral values consistently, regardless ofthe consequences of their use In contrast,...
... one ofthe dangerous kinds of chaos caused by high levels of energy generation anduse Carbon and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere represent part ofthe entropic cost of fossil fuel use ... centuries and at exponentially increasing rates Clearance of forests, useof water, acquisition ofthe products of plant growth, occupation of land, pollution of water and air, and mining ofthe earth ... McCally and Robert Musil), andthe environmental affinity groups ofthe International Association of Bioethics andthe American Society for Bioethics andthe Humanities Many colleagues and friends...
... from the rest ofthe body and that both the head andthe entity consisting ofthe trunk and limbs are provided with external life support (Because of his understanding ofthe metaphysics of parthood, ... simply of a collection of people related to one another in certain ways The nation has no existence independent ofthe existence ofthe people and their relations with one another Our concept of ... cooperation with the others, and each is even unaware ofthe existence of most ofthe others In that case it seems clear that these individuals not together constitute an individual of any substantial...
... THEETHICSOF PEACEBUILDING EDINBURGH STUDIES IN WORLD ETHICS Other titles in the series: TheEthicsof Peace and War Iain Atack TheEthicsofthe Global Environment Robin Attfield Ethics, ... efforts ofthe ˚ League to promote peace in the Aland Islands, Upper Silesia andthe Saar region It will then assess the United Nations’ framework for resolving conflict andthe objectives ofthe ... In the context ofthe Cold War rivalry between the USA and USSR and their client states, paradoxically, mechanisms of conflict resolution andthe building of peace, such as institutions of the...
... how they conducted their work, and (2) how they viewed theethicsof recruitment of foreign-trained health professionals In this article we report our methods and an analysis ofthe findings of ... speculation of future return to some countries of origin: “we’re hearing that the Chinas and Indias ofthe world are starting to lure back some of their expatriate professionals they have Page of 11 ... it’s so bad they want to get out of there and if their country is forcing them to stay - that’s not good for the individual.” The literature also suggests that the migration of health professionals...
... which persons often disagree about what to and why The aim ofthe study is to show that these four cases (raising questions of duty in the case of law, of promises, of fair play, andof friendship) ... obligation – the practices of fair play andof promise-keeping – can themselves be seen as examples of a duty of deference In this respect, the book describes and defends a more general theory ofethics ... extends beyond the particular question of political obligation But the ethical theory is only partial, andthe description ofthe theory forms a large part of its defense The theory is partial...
... because something is required by law, regardless ofthe merits ofthe law I examine and criticize this characterization of law’s morals in Chapter For now, in light ofthe popularity ofthe view ... – the issue ofthe legitimacy of state coercion – that poses the more radical problem in the event of divergence If law implicitly operates on a theory of legitimacy inconsistent with the theory ... is precisely because ofthe power ofthe principle ofautonomy in the lives of all of us that normative systems like religions are typically voluntary associations, with entry and exit determined...
... developed in the chapters that follow As indicated in the preface, the two parts ofthe present study correspond to the two issues, one an issue of legal theory, the other an issue of political theory, ... question ofthe objectivity of legal standards in Chapter For the most part, however, the main theses in this study are independent ofthe debate about the objectivity of legal norms: The claims ... on the right because, once the law has spoken, one can predict the behavior of others and thus achieve coordination The reason for the action, however, is the practice; the law is merely the...
... “law,” then the capitalistic coercive order ofthe West is not law from the point of view ofthe Communist ideal of justice, nor the Communist coercive order ofthe Soviet Union from the point of ... decide) andthe enforcement of those norms through theuseofthe state’s unique apparatus for imposing sanctions (the right to enforce) The minimal normative claim ofthe law is about both of these ... should be emphasized: The attempt to characterize the law’s “self-image”8 requires distinguishing between the claims ofthe law andthe claims of any particular of cial or set of officials, such as...
... Difference Thesis) Most ofthe articles in Legal Theory volume 6, no (2000) also discuss Shapiro’s thesis The Nature of Law 93 the uncertainty of such standards, but on the fact that such standards ... focus on the harms caused by the breach of a promise – primarily the impact ofthe breach on (1) the promissee’s reliance interests; (2) the expectations ofthe promissee; and (3) the prospects for ... understanding ofthe concept; the third question, a more recent arrival on the scene, is a close cousin ofthe first two and shows signs of becoming equally central to the current debate The three...
... content-independent view of promise and law, on the other 116 part ii: theethicsof deference hand, andthe expansive concept of authority on which it is based presumably endorses something like the view suggested ... promise and law always assumes a dispute: The will of one person, or group of persons, is opposed to mine, andthe question is what theory might support deference to the wishes ofthe other, even ... point of having a legal system andthe point of having the institution of promise – the manner in which one comes to acknowledge the value ofthe practice is irrelevant This point, about the tangential...
... to the norms ofthe state is answered by reminding myself ofthe point ofthe state andthe sense in which it represents values that I, too, endorse The state is necessary, and it is the kind of ... whereas the weaker and less aggressive prefer the security ofthe state This possibility of different attitudes about the value ofthe state helps explain the point of classical state -of- nature ... obvious difference is that the content ofthe norm in the case ofthe state is not usually the result of a voluntary choice on the part ofthe citizen That fact weakens the consistency explanation...
... only for their data to be used for the original purposes ofthe clinical research, andthe investigators neither informed the subjects nor obtained their permission for these data to be used in ... harmed by their participation in this research, the question remains as to whether this study on theethicsof doing research itself satisfied the requirements ofthe Belmont report The report ... opportunity to discuss and debate a great many interesting issues, from the question of how we measure the quality ofthe informed consent process to the issue surrounding the ethical standards that should...