... into the easy assumption that the morality of markets is of a lower order than the morality of basic rights, and that the issues ofthe relationship between rights and markets is a matter of determining ... 41 The content of that right gives the content ofthe related duty: not to block us Andthe content ofthe right also identifies the duty-ower: all other agents The duty-ower can be read off the ... however, ofthe danger of allowing organisations as well as individuals to occupy the high moral ground and use this to enforce their own, often distorted, view ofthe world The object of this...
... finishing the proof of Theorem 2.1 Proof of Theorem 2.2 Formulas (7) and (8) follow from (11) and (12) by induction on n Indeed, assuming that, for some n ≥ 1, formulas (7) and (8) hold for all the ... coefficients the electronic journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #N4 Using the proof of Theorem 2.1, we derive the explicit formulas for the elements xm and sn Theorem 2.2 [2, Theorems 4.1, 5.2] For every ... to the one previously obtained by G Musiker and J Propp [5] The purpose of this note is to give short, self- contained and completely elementary proofs ofthe combinatorial interpretation and...
... Utilitarian and Rights-based approaches to animal Moral Status 28 CHAPTER 3: THE LAND ETHIC 3.1 The holistic view ofthe land ethic 3.2 Limitation ofthe land ethic 33 39 CHAPTER 4: THEMORAL STANDING OF ... conscience, andthe problem we face is the extension ofthe social conscience from people to land.”57 It follows that the continuance ofthe integrity, stability and beauty ofthe land may be ... and so not have the required connection to the Land Also, there still remains the rather strong J.Baird Callicott, The Conceptual Foundations ofthe Land Ethic” p 97 Aldo Leopold, The Land...
... and other gamblers, but they also reported using at least one-third of their winnings to finance the consumption of members of their social circle; such as the purchase of gifts in the form of ... understanding ofthe nature of its relationship with social structures and institutions 1.4 Understanding Gambling and Social Inequalities: Identifying the Capacity for Conceptual Synthesis One ofthe ... are of central relevance to the analytical themes of this thesis; firstly, her revelation that Malays in Sumatra had gambling as one of their chief forms of recreation despite the majority of them...
... agents) andthe notion of respecting the inherent “dignity” of all agents (treating people as ends-in-themselves and willing from the standpoint ofthe “kingdom of ends”) gave Kant, so he thought, the ... a conception of freedom of choice under the rule of law, the private moral order, on the other hand, is a conception of virtue, of each autonomously willing the right maxim for the right reason ... in the Metaphysics of Morals are not convincing on their own and require us to understand them in the full context ofthe rest of his ethical thought in Terry Pinkard, “Kant, Citizenship, and...
... the emergence ofthemoralselfand its ethical self- valuing are more adequate than those presented by Hume 30 CHAPTER II Rousseau Thegeneratorsof self- valuingandtheconstitutionofthemoral ... Significant action andtheself 88 VI Valuingtheselfandmoral life 111 VII The ethical significance of love ofself 127 VIII Love ofselfand morality: the search for good and evil 154 Conclusion ... with themoral sentiment itself There is for Hume, in effect, a two-tiered account ofthe development ofthemoralselfand its ethical self- valuingThe first tier consists ofthe random taking of...
... in the proof given in the case when E = l∞ in [15, Proposition 3, page 196] The proof of (iv) is a consequence of Proposition 5.7(i) and follows exactly the same lines as that in the proof of Theorem ... (3.6c) This lead to the next remark Remark 3.3 The choice of β in (3.6b) is justified by Proposition 3.2 and so neither ofthe sets D(A) = s(c) and D(B) = s(c) is embedded in the other one We will ... (A) = s0 and D(B) = c0 (B) = s0 We deduce 1/a 1/β from (3.3a), (3.3b) that in each case, neither ofthe sets D(A) and D(B) is embedded in the other 4.2 The case when the operators A and B are...
... Commonwealth andof Europe, andofthe UN Special Committee against Apartheid SigniWcantly, the Security Council andthe General Assembly ofthe United Nations, which had been demanding the release of ... than otherwise The National government was forced, very reluctantly, to deal with Mandela because of his status in the world’s eyes and because the ANC gained the backing of most ofthe people of ... Mandela Mandela andthe other leaders from the 1950s had by then been moldering on far-oV Robben Island for fourteen years, and there was little in the political situation to encourage hope of...
... weighing the seriousness ofthe inconvenience caused to the offended party against the reasonableness ofthe offending party's conduct The seriousness ofthe offensiveness must be determined by (i) the ... avoid the offensive display; and (3) whether or not the witnesses have assumed the risk themselves of being offended These factors must be weighed as a group against the reasonableness ofthe offending ... the aim of preventing people from suffering harm at their own hands, or with their own consent at the hands of others, and partly for other reasons, for example the desire to protect still other...
... main category and context of offensiveness, the seriousness ofthe offense caused to unwilling witnesses against the reasonableness ofthe offender's conduct The seriousness ofthe offensiveness ... between offense and privacy, 22 Mediating th e Offense Principle, On the scales: the seriousness ofthe offense, 25 On the scales: the reasonableness ofthe offending conduct, 37 Reading the balance, ... carefully the magnitude ofthe nuisance to the one against the reasonableness ofthe conduct ofthe other, andthe necessity "that all may get on together." In his philosophically rewarding text on the...
... self- narratives easily incorporate themes from competing philosophical models oftheselfthe unified self, the communitarian self, the psychoanalytic self, the feminist relational self, andthe ... conceptualize the relation between the possibility ofmoral progress on the part of individuals andthe possibility ofmoraland political progress at the social level The rich depiction of persons ... kind of theory presents to standard moral theories Barbara Herman is Griffin Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a past president ofthe Pacific Division of the...
... object to the idea of selling the right to jump the queue They argue that the proliferation of fast-track schemes adds to the advantages of affluence and consigns the poor to the back ofthe line ... thinking through the rights and wrongs of line standing, ticket scalping, and other forms of queue jumping can help us glimpse themoral force andmoral limits of market reasoning Is there anything ... Whether or not we’re aware of it, the law of supply and demand governs the provision of all these things The most influential statement of this view is offered by Gary Becker, an economist at the...
... object to the idea of selling the right to jump the queue They argue that the proliferation of fast-track schemes adds to the advantages of affluence and consigns the poor to the back ofthe line ... thinking through the rights and wrongs of line standing, ticket scalping, and other forms of queue jumping can help us glimpse themoral force andmoral limits of market reasoning Is there anything ... Whether or not we’re aware of it, the law of supply and demand governs the provision of all these things The most influential statement of this view is offered by Gary Becker, an economist at the...
... that the dominant culture of Britain today is specifically English Britain, the largest island ofthe British Isles, includes the countries of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland Being an island ... that the co-existence between the husband and wife was themoral duty Both of them were equal and must cooperate to support the family There are 11 Vietnamese proverbs about educating themoral ... the image ofthe elderly” Generally, while the image ofthe English elderly is very negative, the Vietnamese still live in the myth ofthe cult of ancestors where the elderly is a symbol 33 of...
... had stressed the importance ofthe common good, the corruption of kings, the authority ofthe senate, the balance ofthe constitution, andthe sovereignty ofthe people.42 This set the tone for ... structure ofthe state.50 John Adams, the pre-eminent American political scientist of his era, and author oftheConstitutionofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts,51 collected in his Defence ofthe Constitutions ... interpretation of them, so that the citizens may constantly enjoy the benefit of them, and be sure of their continuance”.41 Republican Influences on the French and American Revolutions 19 The importance of...
... respondents made the hypothetical product choice and then read and judged the argument, they were asked to rate the importance ofthe issue andthe carefulness with which they read the argument There are ... 2001) and then to the consumer who selects the brand (McCracken 1989) Consumers therefore construct AESTHETIC PRODUCT CHOICE ANDTHESELFand maintain self- concepts through the use of branded consumer ... from the same population as used in the main study, were randomly assigned to one ofthe three self manipulations and then asked to rate their current mood We used a version ofthe positive and...