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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Dworkin"”.
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… an analysis in light of the thinking of Ronald Dworkin, a renowned contemporary legal philosopher. The focus is on controversies related to politically incorrect artistic humor, using the American series South Park as a paradigm, and its intersection with human rights in a liberal democracy, …
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Human Rights and Moral Reasoning: A comparative investigation by way of three theorists and their respective traditions of enquiry: John Finnis, Ronald Dworkin and Jürgen Habermas
… Finnis and the Natural Law tradition, Ronald Dworkin and the Liberal Tradition, and Jürgen Habermas and the Critical Tradition. It unfolds in four stages (guided by the methodological categories of Bernard Lonergan). The first part, titled «History», maps the central impulses, texts and values …
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Economic inequalities and choice : a reassessment of Ronald Dworkin's theory of distributive justice
… important theory of distributive justice, Ronald Dworkin's "Equality of Resources" (ER). ER is traditional in holding that choices made by rational, ignorant and purely self-interested beings are relevant to distributive justice. ER is novel both in its use of such choices and in incorporating the …
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An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication
… requires in these so-called “hard cases.” Ronald Dworkin argues that if interpretation is not constrained, adjudicators are creating the law rather than simply interpreting it. He believes that such a constraint lies in considerations of coherence that will limit the range of plausible …
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An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication
… requires in these so-called “hard cases.” Ronald Dworkin argues that if interpretation is not constrained, adjudicators are creating the law rather than simply interpreting it. He believes that such a constraint lies in considerations of coherence that will limit the range of plausible …
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La justicia y el contrato social en John Rawls y cómo superar sus limitaciones
… expongo especialmente la posición de: Ronald Dworkin, Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum y Norman Daniels; éstos están de acuerdo con muchos aspectos de la TJ aunque tratan de modificarla mediante sus propios aportes metodológicos que resultan ser muy importantes para los problemas de la justicia …
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… at least the form suggested by, say, Ronald Dworkin, in being unprepared to accept a balance between rights and security, seemingly overlooks threats that undermine the very freedoms liberals like Dworkin wish to protect. And the liberal philosophy, at least its John Locke traditions, of …
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Lingual Function and Articulatory Competence
<p>Dworkin (1979) states that, of the 2.5 million children and young adults in the United States with a communication problem, 60% have a functional articulation disorder for which no psychologic or physical problem can be found. The oral mechanism examination is an established part of a speech and …
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Constitutional interpretation.
… of H. L. A. Hart, Lon L. Fuller, and Ronald Dworkin.
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… was written by antipornography feminists' Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and as a result of its popularity, an opposing feminist organization, the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT), initiated a public campaign against the ordinance and against feminist antiporn politics in …
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UNCAGING CICADAS: Lover, Beloved, and Reader in Contemporary Love Poetry
… John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Robert Duncan, Craig Dworkin, Robert Kendall, Jackson Mac Low, Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback – in the context of the tradition of love poetry and the overarching critical discourses offered by Erik Gray's. The Art of Love Poetry, Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, …
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The role of welfare in an egalitarian metric
… an important role in egalitarian thought. Ronald Dworkin, in contrast, has argued that welfare should play no role in a principle of equality of distribution. I explore his discussion of this issue, finding that many of his arguments presuppose the truth of his alternative account, which focuses …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… his two principal rivals, H.L.A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin. Finally, it argues that American law would do well to adopt his approach to the interpretation of legal documents.</p>
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Pierre'o Manent'o iššūkis Ronaldo Dworkino žmogaus teisių sampratai /
… in the works of American legal theorist Ronald Dworkin and French political philosopher Pierre Manent, has prompted these philosophers to engage in a polemic regarding natural human rights. The paper contends that Dworkin’s endeavour to demonstrate the objectivity of natural human rights by …
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Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
… have entered the metaethical debate recently (Dworkin, 1996; Kramer, 2009; Parfit, 2011; Scanlon, 2014). Relaxed realism promises a novel perspective on our normative practice. In particular, it aims for a view that is genuinely distinct from traditional non-naturalism on the one hand, and …
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Vulnerability and the feminist politics of sexual violence
… in detail the contributions of Andrea Dworkin and Judith Butler on the questions of vulnerability and sexual violence, thinkers associated with anti-pornography and pro-sex perspectives respectively, I disrupt this oppositional narrative. In the process, I pave the way for my own …
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Inconsistencies in Law
… Alf Ross, Norberto Bobbio, Lon Fuller, Ronald Dworkin, Carlos Alchourrón, Eugenio Bulygin, and Pierluigi Chiassoni. Although these authors hold differing views on inconsistencies, I argue that they have all failed to arrive at a sound taxonomy of the different types of inconsistencies that can …
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Political philosophy and private property : an evaluation of four main types of theory concerning ownership and distribution of property in a just society
… Oakeshott, John Rawls, Alan Ryan and Ronald Dworkin and attempts conceptual analyses of "freedom", "equality", "justice" and "property". Finally, it is concluded that: 1. There is no natural right to property. 2. The form of property rights adopted requires the hypothetical consent of …
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The Status of Small Group Training as Perceived by Program Administrators
<p>This descriptive study was obtain program components and administrative perceptions of collegiate recreation small group training programs. Through an extensive review of literature and valued input from key campus recreation professionals, a preliminary survey with 30 items was created. The …
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The process and context of help-seeking after sexual assault
Sexual assault is a common experience that has been associated with a number of problematic psychosocial outcomes. To cope with the trauma of sexual assault and mitigate these negative outcomes, survivors may reach out for services and support. However, the responses that they receive vary in their …
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