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Michael Walzer on the Moral Legitimacy of States and the Morality of Killing in War
… In the first chapter, I analyze Michael Walzer's account of the moral legitimacy of states. In the second chapter, I analyze his account of the morality of killing in war. I begin the first chapter by contrasting Walzer's account of state legitimacy and humanitarian intervention with that …
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Socialist communitarianism and its values for contemporary society
… Polanyi's The Great Transformation and Michael Walzer's Spheres of Justice. Taken together, these two books provide a rich backdrop against which democracy can be defended. Although Polanyi and Walzer reflect two quite different approaches and attitudes to questions concerning social and …
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Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War
… (constructed from the works of Michael Walzer and Judith Jarvis Thomson) and a War-Pacifist argument (developed by Richard Norman) that condemns killing in combat based on the moral requirements of self-defense. I demonstrate that both arguments fail due to their mistaken assumptions …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
… A school of thought championed by Richard Walzer argues that the most important thing to know about al-Fārābī is that he repeated in Arabic many things already said better in Greek by the ancients. According to this school of thought, al-Fārābī’s main intention was to transmit specifically …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… of Just War by philosophers such as Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan and Thaddeus Metz. I raise an objection of applicability to McMahan’s revisionist theory and similarly raise three problems for Metz’s African Relational Just War Theory in its application to a single case of intrastate violence …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
… in light of a commentary on the text by Richard Walzer, who is among those scholars who read al-Fārābī as an enemy of Islam who merely reproduces Greek philosophy in Arabic. Contrasting the original Arabic text with Walzer’s English translation and commentary I apply readings of several of …
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The politics of cultural diversity : a survey in the liberal-communitarian debate
… Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer from the communitarians: and John Rawls, Joseph Raz and Will Kymlicka from the liberals. The critical examinations of their arguments which are presented here concern the normative aspects of the problem and concentrate on three main themes: …
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School psychologists' knowledge of and attitudes towards transgender students
Transgender students face harassment and discrimination in schools, and those who experience such maltreatment are at a higher risk of attempting suicide and other negative outcomes. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has called upon school psychologists to be advocates for …
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Themes of Exodus and Revolution in Ellison's Invisible Man, Morrison's Beloved, and Doctorow's Ragtime
… the pattern of revolution established by Michael Walzer in Exodus and Revolution. In Chapters Three, Four, and Five, I apply the model established in Chapter Two to the individual texts. In Chapter Six, I draw three conclusions which arise from my study. My first conclusion is that the master …
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… evidence of this claim (John Rawls and Michael Walzer). When it comes to the language of conscience, modern American culture has committed the philosophic fallacy (John Dewey). We have substituted the clear divisions and images created by conscientious movements for the process that created …
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Using Single-Cell Analyses to Uncover Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Plasmodium falciparum
<p>Malaria persists as a global health problem, with 212 million cases and 429,000 deaths worldwide in 2015 alone. It is caused by the apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium, which follows a complex life cycle that consists of multiple stages spanning from the human host to the mosquito vector. Among the …
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Economies of Scale and Municipal Police Services
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“Closer to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago
… include war criticism from voices like Michael Walzer and Elaine Scarry; criticism of the historical fiction genre from Maria Margaronis; the treatment of the pain of others by Susan Sontag; and the language of how women are viewed from Mary Beard and Laura Mulvey. It contextualizes itself in …
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Combatant moral equality in historical and practical context.
Enemy soldiers in war are permitted to kill one another without moral blame. This permission, though, is limited by rules specifically constructed for war. These rules apply symmetrically to both sides of war and independently of the justice of their causes. This feature of the morality of war is …