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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Isaiah Berlin"”.
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Isaiah Berlin and the problem of counter-enlightenment liberalism.
… will explore the complex relationship between Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism and his work in the history of ideas. While Berlin’s explicitly political thought reads like a scion of the Enlightenment, albeit with a pronounced Cold War inflection, his work in the history of ideas appears to indict …
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The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
Isaiah Berlin’s doctrine of objective pluralism has been criticised as amounting in fact to ethical and political relativism. Berlin has relied on two arguments in attempting to refute this charge, those from common intelligibility and from shared values. I propose that the former argument alone is …
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Libertad humana y pluralismo de valores : más allá de los dos conceptos de libertad de Isaiah Berlin
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Liberalism and the problem of colonial rule : three-stages in Anglo-American thought
… liberalisms of Mill, the British Idealists and Isaiah Berlin, and their responses to the question of colonial rule, this history sheds light on the fundamental impulses of the liberal tradition between the colonial and post-colonial periods. It is widely known that Mill was employed by the East …
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Marriage, the Family, and Security in Israel: The Paradox of the Liberal State
… Zionism's critics (including Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Judith Butler). I then turn to a examination of Israel's PSLs, asking what is at stake when a liberal, democratic nation bases its laws governing marriage and divorce upon religious law rather than developing civil laws governing …
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Liberal Value Pluralism: A Study of the Political Ideas of Michael Ignatieff
… and ethical philosophy first developed by Isaiah Berlin that believes the values we hold to be plural. This plurality of values is fundamentally irreducible or incommmensurable. In other words, there is no common measure by which we can reliably compare values. A further aspect of value …
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Legal Sovereignty and Value Pluralism in the United Kingdom
This thesis asks what a commitment to ethical value pluralism (EVP) can contribute to the current understanding of sovereignty in United Kingdom (UK) constitutional law. It is this ethical approach that serves as the core contribution to the current sovereignty debates. <br/><br/>The thesis …
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The Sound of Silence: First Nations and British Columbia Emergency Management
In this thesis I offer a brief overview of the current legislative, regulatory and treaty frameworks impacting emergency management in British Columbia, with a particular emphasis on Crown-identified First Nation roles. I show that the regime overwhelmingly positions non-First Nation governments, …