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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Libertarian"”.
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A libertarian approach to teaching reading
… all constraints on children and students: libertarian educational theory. I consider the strengths and weaknesses of the libertarian approaches to education that were voiced in the 1960s and '70s, focusing on the writings of three representative libertarian educators: A. S. Neill, John …
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Libertarian views on intellectual property law
During the elections for the European Parliament in June 2009, an unknown party in Sweden turned out to be very successful. The Pirate Party, campaigning for patents to be scrapped and copyright to last just five years instead of 70, received 7% of the votes in the Scandinavian country, giving the …
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Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy
The thesis explores the relationships between knowledge and knowing in contemporary 21st century information society, using the foundation of the Faculty of Media Design & New Media Art at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano as a research apparatus. This Faculty was established between 2003 …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… critique and some of its implications, of the libertarian theory of property according to which property, following John Locke, is legitimately acquired through a man's mixing of his labour with unowned resources and held in perpetuity or until the owner voluntarily alienates his just claim. …
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The ethics of labor automation : AI, technological disenfranchisement, and libertarian paternalism
The capitalist economic landscape constantly reinvents itself to capture new value opportunities, in an endless innovative process of what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction"'. Its next major event, hastened by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the emergence of highly …
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Liberty for Individuality
… & Politics Over the last couple of decades libertarianism has gained a lot of attention and garnered much public support. The movement stands at a critical juncture with a great opportunity before it. It has the option of continuing as it isas a marginal critique of other mainstream …
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A Scriptural Appraisal of the Necessary Connection between Progressive Sanctification and Compatibilist Freedom
… two most widely held models of human freedom: libertarianism and compatibilism. Compatibilism is shown to comport more closely with Scripture and to solve many of the nagging philosophical problems associated with a libertarian model of freedom. Chapter 3 continues to build a foundation for the …
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Global Health, Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability
Chapter one of the dissertation contrasts libertarian theories to the theories of John Rawls and the human development approach favored by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Libertarian theorists such as Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard, and Jan Narveson claim that justice is achieved when and only …
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Hermoso Plaja Saló y Carmen Paredes Sans: el anarquismo silencioso, 1889-1982
This work is a mosaic of the Spanish libertarian movement of the XIXth century, shown through the history of a family of anarchist editors whose more conspicuous member is Hermoso Plaja. They are unknown people supporting the schools, the unions, the publishing houses, from where a social network …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… to determine to what degree a traditional libertarian paternalist (LP) intervention, popularly known as a nudge, can outperform an autonomy-enhancing paternalist intervention (AEP). I introduce the term Marginal Benefit of Manipulation, MBoM, defined as the difference in treatment effect …
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The Ethical Balance Between Individual and Population Health Interests To Effectively Manage Pandemics and Epidemics
… management of pandemics and epidemics. The libertarian model focuses on advancing individual rights. The epidemiological model focuses upon population health. The social justice model focuses on a broader perspective than individual rights and population health to include universal human …
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Free Will and Meaningful Action: Expressions of the Self
… a particular agent-causal interpretation of libertarian free will, as well as advocates for its indispensability in cultivating a meaningful life.</p> <p>In chapter one, I argue that libertarian free will enhances meaning in life. Determinism threatens meaning in life because under a …
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The science of social reasoning and decision making: foundations of a new social-liberal theory.
… and remain highly relevant to current debates – libertarian theory and social-liberal theory. In particular, it examines how representative theories on both sides are based on claims about our human nature as reasoning, self- determining, individual agents; and claims about how this nature may be …
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Wild Bill goes to Washington : a reassessment of the Senate career of North Dakota's William Langer
… chamber in 1940, admirers saw him as a civil libertarian and a defender of the "common man." The loyalty and devotion of his constituents increased over the years because of his willingness to do favors for them and because of his considerable campaign skills. However, a study of his papers, …
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
… to harness social habit for their cause of libertarian social change. This study documents their search.</p> <p>Karl Mannheim’s <em>Ideology and Utopia</em> serves as a methodological foundation for this discourse in the history of ideas. His theories regarding the sociology of knowledge and …
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Challenging the Authoritarian Theory of the Press: Mostafa Amin and Press Freedom Under King Farouk's Rule in Egypt
… regime, as Farouk's regime portrayed several libertarian themes. Moreover, the one-way linear progression of press systems that Siebert et al. predicted is also proven to be flawed as after Farouk, Egypt had a complete authoritarian rule under Nasser.
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Individualist Anarchism in France and Its Legacy
… rehabilitates an understudied branch of the libertarian movement, namely French individualist anarchism, which was most active during the Belle Époque. I provide a synthetical examination of the individualist tradition that challenges dominant historical narratives and dissolves the notion of …
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Community health insurance as a viable means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda
… of justice in health care delivery, namely, the libertarian, egalitarian and utilitarian theories. It also borrows concepts from Andersen's (1968) behavioural model of health services access and utilization as well as Kutzin's (2001) framework for analysis of health financing arrangements to …
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The aesthetics of decentralization
… objectives of openness, freedom and even libertarian self-sovereignty within a networked society can be achieved through the technical protocols. Chapter 1 examines the logics of the "stack" and the "platform" as the vertical and lateral organizational abstractions of this environmental …
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A CONFUCIAN ROLE ETHICS APPROACH TO THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
… through our relational identity. I discuss the Libertarian solution, which deploys mainly technical and legislative means to solve the TOC. I critique that its focus on efficient outcomes neglects the quality of the interaction and relations among members. Thus, I construct a CRE approach, which …
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