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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"discourse ethics"”.
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Giving Voice to the Vulnerable: Discourse Ethics and Amnesty for Undocumented Immigration
… the claims to amnesty they can make. I take a discourse theoretic approach to this issue, following in the footsteps of Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib, among others. My thesis consists of the following claims. First, a rights-based approach to amnesty does not clearly distinguish between …
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Dancing about Architecture in a Performative Space: Discourse, Ethics and the Practice of Music Education
… want to do. But I do so because recent critical discourses in musicology and music education suggest talk about music is an inherent part of music, such that if we talk about music at all we must additionally talk about talk about music. But in talking about talk about music we are called upon to …
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From oppression to democracy : an argument for reparations for African Americans from a discourse ethics perspective
… social and economic life comes from the discourse ethics of Habermas and I will argue that his derivation of a discourse ethic from a communicative ideal can be used in the discussion of reparations. I use Habermas's discourse ethics for two purposes for my thesis. I use it to set a …
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Conflict and communication : critical theory, international relations and the intervention in Kosovo
… The research builds on recent developments in discourse ethics to formulate, ground, test and evaluate a critical theoretical framework. This framework is presented as a series of `communicative imperatives' which might inform initiatives in conflict resolution. The `communicative imperatives' …
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Towards a Global Ethics: The Debate on Nanotechnology in the European Union and China
… region, particularly given their different bioethics contexts, and examines how specific concerns translate into policymaking. In questioning whether Eastern and Western approaches to nanotechnology governance can be aligned, one can observe that Europe is increasingly cooperating and competing …
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Human rights, reproductive rights, and population policies: a theoretical intervention, an analytical proposal, and an application to the case of Mexico
… study of reproductive rights as an international discourse and as a group of normative standards within nations. Third, I develop an application of the analytical framework to the case of contemporary Mexico. In chapter one, I evaluate the virtues and problems of the contemporary discourse on …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… original position (Rawls) or the procedures of discourse ethics (Habermas). By contrast, Levinas argues for justice s failure, discovering, in Kant s moral law, a principle of responsibility for the particular other which conflicts with impartiality. Distinguishing himself from both the …
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On the Ethical Implications of Personal Health Monitoring
… institutions. By relating utilitarianism, virtue ethics and theories of surveillance to Habermas’ concept of colonisation of the lifeworld, a conceptual framework is created which can explain how PHM may be allowed to change medicine as a practice in an ethically problematic way. The framework …
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Cosmopolitan Education and Moral Education: Forging Moral Beings Under Conditions of Global Uncertainty
… epistemological restraint, Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethics, and Chantal Mouffe's agonistic pluralism to help students acquire a disposition that both promotes active and flexible engagement in moral inquiry, as well as in other educational experiences, and embraces plurality and diversity …
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Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
… rejection of a strictly theoretical approach to ethics. I address representatives from some of the most influential alternatives such as: (2) Albert R Jonsen & Stephen Toulmin (casuistry), (3) Jürgen Habermas (discourse ethics), Alasdair MacIntyre (virtue ethics), Jonathan Haidt (experimental …
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Just Philosophy, Just Practice? An Exploration of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation in Relation to the Normative Dimension of Two Movements Against Globalisation and Exclusion
The Ethics of Liberation in the Age of Globalisation and Exclusion by the Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel aims to be 'a day to day ethics, starting from and in favour of the immense majorities of humanity excluded from globalisation, in the historic 'nonnality' that is presently …