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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"contractarianism"”.
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Contractarianism and Legitimacy
… explores the relation between the varieties of contractarianism and legitimate political authority. The first chapter defines the idea of legitimacy and responds to two objections to the project. The second chapter examines the idea of a social contract and defends its use as the proper …
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Rawlsian ethical act contractarianism
Assuming that contractarianism is appropriate for developing an ethical theory, which contractarian ethical theory is best? My dissertation provides an answer to this question. Drawing on the work of Rawls, I provide an ethical theory which most importantly employs a veil of ignorance. My account …
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Contractarianism and Moderate Morality
… morality. In this thesis I defend a version of contractarianism that I believe leads to both deontological constraints and options; i.e., to a genuinely moderate morality. On my account, the parties to the agreement are conceived of as being motivated not only to promote self-interest, but also …
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The theory of rational decision and the foundations of ethics
… field of contemporary ethics, utilitarianism and contractarianism, is the more adequate moral theory. I begin by outlining what I call orthodox decision theory and note from this theory together with a minimal characterization of what it is to make a moral judgement we can deduce utilitarianism. …
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Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
… moral theories (e.g. varieties of Kantianism, contractarianism) rather than in consequentialist moral theories. Finally, even with a precise understanding of the nature of and grounds for the moral rights of animals, challenges remain regarding the ultimate force and place of animal moral …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… the call for an ethic based on the principles of contractarianism by exerting three principles: (1) acknowledge advertising as a social institution that generates textual meanings of significance, influence and impact on society; (2) in light of the first principle, create advertising campaigns in …
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COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… ethical systems such as utilitarianism and contractarianism. In particular, these communities reflect an ecofeminist ethics of flourishing. In addition to their particular ethical stances, the novels also reveal the mutual importance of environments and the bodies that inhabit them in …
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COMMUNITY, BODY, AND LANDSCAPE: CONSTRUCTION OF PLACE IN MOLLY GLOSS’S THE DAZZLE OF DAY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN’S ALWAYS COMING HOME
… ethical systems such as utilitarianism and contractarianism. In particular, these communities reflect an ecofeminist ethics of flourishing. In addition to their particular ethical stances, the novels also reveal the mutual importance of environments and the bodies that inhabit them in …
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Fugitivity and Carceral Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Mediterranean, c. 1876-1916
… century and early twentieth centuries? How has contractarianism shaped the modern humanitarian enterprise? I contend that the imperial humanitarianisms of the nineteenth century advanced the ‘standard of civilisation’ as the organising principle of contractual society, as this humanitarian maxim …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… approaches – consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics - and applied ethical writing relating to conflict–related harm-doing, including eg Just War Theory. The Model was then reviewed in terms of the literature and the literature in terms of the Model. The work …
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Persons, property and morality : a defence of political libertarianism
… The author differs, however, in finding that contractarianism favours also a positive right to basic, standard welfare. Recognition of this latter right commits the author to a form of moderate or Lockean libertarianism that endorses the in-principle justice of coercive redistribution to meet …
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GOVERNING SHARING PLATFORMS COOPERATIVELY: ESSAYS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH
Il presente elaborato intende contribuire, sotto forma di una collezione di quattro articoli tematici, ad una delle principali questioni che caratterizzano l’attuale discorso sulla sostenibilità: come porre rimedio agli aspetti più negativi del cosiddetto “capitalismo di piattaforma” al fine di …