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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ronald Dworkin"”.
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… proposes 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 …
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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
… John 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 …
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Constitutional interpretation.
… theories of H. L. A. Hart, Lon L. Fuller, and Ronald Dworkin.
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The role of welfare in an egalitarian metric
… play 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 …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… of 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 …
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An Application and Defense of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Adjudication
… law 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
… law 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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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… liberalism, 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, …
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Inconsistencies in Law
… Kelsen, 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 …
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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
… Michael 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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La justicia y el contrato social en John Rawls y cómo superar sus limitaciones
… Aquí, 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 …
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Ευθανασία: Φιλοσοφικές Θεμελιώσεις, Ηθικά Διλήμματα και Σύγχρονες Ηθικές Προσεγγίσεις
… στις θέσεις των Emmanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Ronald Dworkin και Peter Singer, οι οποίοι, αν και προέρχονται από διαφορετικά φιλοσοφικά ρεύματα, διαμόρφωσαν καθοριστικά την ηθική σκέψη γύρω από την αυτονομία, την αξιοπρέπεια και το δικαίωμα επιλογής του τέλους της ζωής. Παράλληλα, εξετάζονται …
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Should liberal states compel their citizens to adhere to liberal values? The failure of the UK and France to protect ethical independence and equal civic status in relation to freedom of education and other fundamental rights.
… on the theories of, inter alia, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin and Cecile Laborde, I argue that, properly construed, state neutrality must mean a commitment to three requirements, which together constitute a principle of restricted neutrality: i. first, that public bodies ensure their decisions …
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Towards the Ideal: Coherence Theories of Judicial Adjudication and the Ideal Law in Hard Cases
It will be argued that that methodology developed in this thesis, known as ‘ideal law methodology’, provides a better alternative to coherence theories of judicial adjudication in adjudicating hard cases. After framing the discussion within the context of Angelo-American legal theory, hard cases, …