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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"consent theory"”.
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LEGITIMACY FOR HOGS: THE SELFISH CASE FOR EXPRESS CONSENT THEORY
… relevance is the sole desideratum for a theory of legitimacy. Maximising it requires determining how individuals with the most prevalent basic desires should rationally choose among competing theories. Third, drawing on experimental psychology, I identify these desires as predominantly …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… this dissertation, The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, is the first to apply consent theory to those unions. Modern consent theory dictates that for individuals to consent, they must be autonomous, capable, educated, mature, and …
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Beyond the Objectivity of Sexual Consent: Toward Rhetorical Expressions of Negotiation
… negotiate sex, and find that the language of consent presupposes a capacity to speak about sex and a conception of intersubjectivity - the coming together of subjects - that is based on interpenetration (of both language and bodies). This study finds that consent follows from a classical model …
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OVERLY-GREAT EXPECTATIONS: WHY POLITICAL VOLUNTARISM IS IMPOSSIBLE, WHY PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISM IS UNNECESSARY, AND WHY THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM
… free individuals lend their personal power via consent to the state's governors. Modern Lockean A. John Simmons extends Locke's argument to conclude that, since this does not happen in the real world, philosophical anarchism must be accepted. I argue that classical consent cannot happen in the …