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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"natural rights"”.
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The environment and natural rights
… activity but have evolved through accidental natural processes. This fact of not being willfully created makes the environment ontologically independent and confers on it intrinsic value as opposed to instrumental value. This intrinsic value is one that all the entities that make up the …
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Equality: making sense of natural rights.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Philosophy. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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Humanitarianism, Reform, and the Natural Rights Atlantic, 1815-1867
… reform movements—including abolitionism, women’s rights, temperance, and Universal Peace—interwove in this Anglo-American reform pathway. This dialogue was rooted in and sustained by a spectrum of natural rights beliefs filtered through a prism of reformist Christian convictions. Four principles …
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Unraveling Anti-Federalist Ideology through a Conceptual Framework of Natural Rights
… agreed upon was the existence of inalienable natural rights including the natural right to self-ownership and the ownership of legitimately gained property. The Anti-Federalists worried that the Constitution contained unsuitable and unspecified objectives for an excessive government, and …
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Citizenship, exile, and natural rights in medieval Roman law, ca. 1200-1400
… civitas - of being merely a human person with natural rights (statelessness, in modem terminology). My findings allow me to revise existing narratives about citizenship and natural rights in medieval Roman law. I argue that citizenship was not fundamentally contractual, and that it was …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… understood as a response to the rise in states' rights constitutionalism in Antebellum America, which advanced a reading of the U.S. Constitution grounded in American social compact theory. In response, Story articulated a national conception of popular sovereignty that contextualized the …
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A justification for rights
… provides an argument in favour of there being natural rights. Such rights are rights which creatures necessarily have in virtue of their nature alone. These are to be distinguished from non-natural rights which may or may not be acquired. It is argued that natural rights possess three features: …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic principles of equality upon which the nation was founded, the struggle for freedom for Black …
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Abolition as Obedience to the Higher Law
… to. God had endowed all races of men with equal natural rights, among which were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Government was approved by God as a means of protecting the natural rights of men. If government failed in the end, the allegiance and obedience that citizens ordinarily …
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The relationship between religion and rights in the writings of John Locke
Since 1945 the emphasis on rights has been an ever-increasing phenomenon while the influence of the church plays an ever-diminishing role in today's society. The irony of the situation is that rights have their source in religion. It is Locke who is credited with having put the question of rights …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
Hobbes's natural law of gratitude needs to be brought back into perspective when reading his political works. Often when reading Hobbes, many use his depiction of human nature and natural rights to demonstrate the innate propensity toward unsociability. However, contrary to this presumption, Hobbes …
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Government Evolution and the Democratic Ideal: Applying Pragmatism as a Method for Success
… government accountability by protecting the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Coupled together, these foundational principles establish the democratic ideal. This ideal is advanced when governments allow for effective citizen participation, adherence to the rule of law, and the …
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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
… acceptance of the view that individuals have natural rights. It attempts to answer the following questions: 1. Is there a natural right to property? 2. can an individual acquire exclusive control over an object independently of the actions or acquiescence of others? 3. Do private property …
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
… opinions. They tended to embrace a concept of natural rights, and their national identity stemmed largely from the English constitutional heritage. Within that context, Baptists desired full citizenship in the nation. They called for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts and the reform of …
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Liberty, peace, and friendliness: the political ideas of Auberon Herbert
… on a Lockean-Spencerian conception of individual natural rights that asserted self-ownership and the moral obligation for individuals to respect the rights of other people. Rights protection against force and fraud constituted the primary purpose of government. Herbert, aptly describing …
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Making noises: contextualising the politics of Rorty’s neopragmatism to assess its sustainability
… novel, that contextualises themes related to ‘natural rights’ as the foundation of liberal democracy. The exegesis, in its discussion of issues raised by the completed novel, then draws on existing research into the sustainability of democracy in order to synthesise an overall perspective. …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… asserts that property thus acquired is held by natural right. Accordingly, this dissertation commences with an elucidation of how we are to understand the concept of property and the concept and language of natural rights. The dissertation then attempts to show that: .1. The concept of universal …
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Edmund Burke’s Moral Imagination: Interpretation and Cultivation
… with the topics of virtue, vice, authority, rights, and social change. The moral imagination is cultivated by the virtues of humility, truth, justice, sympathy, and wisdom. However, the immoral imagination is vain, revealing a faculty that is weak and juvenile, infected and strange, …