Sovereignty, Rights and Justice surveys the relationship between international relations theory and political theory, showing the way in which these two discourses, once considered separate, are now intertwined. In the first part of the book an historical overview of the international political theory ...
Rights, Justice, and Duties to Provide Assistance: A Critique of Regan's Theory of Rights* Dale Jamieson 1990. "Rights,Justice, and Duties to Provide Assistance: A Critique of Regan's Theory of Rights." Ethics 100, no. 1:349-62.Jamieson, Dale, "Rights, Justice, and Duties to Provide ...
Sovereignty, Rights and Justice surveys the relationship between international relations theory and political theory, showing the way in which these two discourses, once considered separate, are now intertwined. In the first part of the book an historical overview of the international political theory ...
International human rights are most helpfully understood as the legal transliteration of a Bergsonian intuition of justice. In the end, Bergson provides us not with a radical alternative to Kant, but rather a way to make Kantian categories more supple and responsive to the contours of people's ...
and the rights of prisoners, as well as existing legal structures, court practices, and the developing literature in Criminology, Law and Political Science, in order to critically review the relationship between the developing body of human rights theory and practice, and the criminal justice system...
And still more recently, Ronald Dworkin has asserted that our “intuitions about justice” presuppose that “people have rights …” ([12], p. xii). Although there is ample historical precedent for such statements, I want to consider some older sources concerning which it may be difficult to...
and also provide a significant new reading of Mill's theory of liberty. The last essay argues that the promise of Mill's theory of justice cannot be fulfilled. Utilitarianism is unable to account for crucial features of moral rights, or even for the moral force of legal rights whose existenc...
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls | Summary, Analysis & Quotes Start today. Try it now Political Science 101: Intro to Political Science 21 chapters | 148 lessons | 11 flashcard sets Ch 1. Basic Terms and Concepts of Political Science Political Science | History, Fields & Theories 5:...
of "conjectures" and "refutations." That is what a scientific theory is: a conjecture. Some theories, at this point, seem to be things that we can trust in with some confidence; but it is much clearer now than it was fifty years ago that science is not just a simple march from ignor...
This post is by Dr Debadatta Bose, postdoctoral scholar at the Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory. Readers of Rights as Usual are well-versed in the complex dance between human rights and economic regulations, where normative priorities often clash. To explore some of these tensions, the NN...