The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community write by Brian Leiter. This book was released on 2011. The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last 250 years both moral philosophy and ordinary moral opinion have witnessed a remarkable expansion of their conception of the 'moral' community, that is, the community of creatures that are thought entitled to basic moral (and ultimately legal) consideration - whatever the precise details of what such consideration requires. 'Being human' is what matters now in terms of membership in the moral community, not race, gender, religion, or, increasingly, sexual orientation. (Species membership - hence the 'being human' - remains a barrier to entry, however.) How to explain these developments? According to 'Whig Histories, ' this is really a story of expanding moral knowledge. Just as we discovered that the movement of mid-size physical objects is governed by the laws of Newtonian mechanics, and that those same laws do not describe the behavior of quantum particles, so too we have discovered that chattel slavery is a grave moral wrong and that women have as much moral claim on the electoral vote as men. I argue against the Whig Histories in favor of non-Whig Histories that explain the expanding moral community in terms of biological, psychological, and economic developments, not increased moral knowledge. If the non-Whig Histories are correct, should we expect the 'species barrier' to membership in the moral community to fall? I argue for a skeptical answer.
Boundaries and Justice
Boundaries and Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boundaries and Justice write by Sohail H. Hashmi. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Boundaries and Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the supreme political and economic significance of boundaries--and ongoing challenges to existing national boundaries--scant attention has been paid to their ethics. This volume explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. It is the first book to bring together thinkers from a range of traditions, both religious and secular, to discuss the ethics of boundaries. Each contributor represents a tradition's views on questions surrounding the use of boundaries to delimit property and political rights. What does it mean to own something? What resources should not be privately owned? What justifies the erection of political boundaries between one people and another? How ''hard'' should such boundaries be? What rights extend to minorities within a state? Should territorial boundaries coincide with social ones? Does national autonomy have an ethical basis, or is it an aspect of modern power politics? Should we aim for a more inclusive community than that afforded by modern nation-states? Cross-chapter dialogue and a substantive conclusion draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented, traditions that include Christianity, classical liberalism, Confucianism, international law, Islam, Judaism, liberal egalitarianism, and natural law. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Nigel Biggar, Joseph Boyle, Joseph Chan, Russell Hardin, Will Kymlicka, Loren Lomasky, Robert McCorquodale, Richard B. Miller, David Novak, Sulayman Nyang, Michael Nylan, Raul C. Pangalangan, Daniel Philpott, Jeremy Rabkin, Hillel Steiner, M. Raquibuz Zaman, and Noam J. Zohar.
Judges and Adjudication in Constitutional Democracies: A View from Legal Realism
Judges and Adjudication in Constitutional Democracies: A View from Legal Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judges and Adjudication in Constitutional Democracies: A View from Legal Realism write by Pierluigi Chiassoni. This book was released on 2020-12-11. Judges and Adjudication in Constitutional Democracies: A View from Legal Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book offers contributions to a philosophical and realistic approach to the place of adjudication in contemporary constitutional democracies. Bringing together scholars from different legal and philosophical backgrounds, the book purports to cast light on the role(s) of judges and the function of judicial interpretation inside of constitutional states, from the standpoint of legal realism as a revisited and sophisticated jurisprudential outlook. In so doing, the book also copes with a few major jurisprudential issues, like, e.g., determining the ideas that make up the core of legal realism, exploring the relation between legal realism and legal positivism, identifying the boundaries of judicial interpretation as they appear from a realist standpoint, as well as considering some skeptical outlooks on the very claims of contemporary legal realism.
Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community
Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community write by . This book was released on 2006. Assessing the Boundaries of the Moral Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Natural Law Approach to Normativity
A Natural Law Approach to Normativity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural Law Approach to Normativity write by Bebhinn Donnelly. This book was released on 2007-01-01. A Natural Law Approach to Normativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the relationship between natural law theory and the philosophy of law, Bebhinn Donnelly proposes a new approach to natural law theory - one which addresses some of the tradition's shortcomings, and advances further the approach to Hume's dichotomy. This volume will be of interest to academics in philosophy of law, moral/political philosophy, natural law theorists, and students of jurisprudence internationally.
