This paper presents, defends and applies a conception of public health ethics as focused on liberty-limiting public health action. This approach has been persistently criticised, but the criticism ...is ambiguous between two challenges: that the focus on liberty makes an objectionable presumption in favour of liberal values and that the focus on liberty fails to address institutionalised social injustice. Part One of the paper addresses both challenges to show they can be met by a nuanced account of a liberty-oriented public health ethics. Part Two establishes that debates about policy responses to the current Covid-19 pandemic illustrate and vindicate this conception of public health ethics as focused on liberty-limiting public health action. The discussion then turns to the methodological question as to how public health policies are to be evaluated, focusing particular on the role of normative theory in such evaluations. The methodology of ‘wide reflective equilibrium’ is described and endorsed; the paper ends with a case study to illustrate this evaluative methodology, focused on the ethics of COVID-19 immunity passports.
John Bellamy Foster takes readers back to Marx's understanding of the dialectics of nature and society. As Marx and Engels noted, humanity must not only struggle for the advancement of human freedom, ...but also the capitalist destruction of the earth. Today, the struggle for freedom and the struggle for necessity coincide everywhere on the planet for the first time in human history, creating a prospect of ruin or revolution.
The principal aim of this book is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related ...aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the ‘will to nothingness’, and the ‘eternal recurrence’, as well as to his search for a ‘genealogical’ understanding of morality. These twelve chapters by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?
En este trabajo se intenta esclarecer los fundamentos conceptuales de la soberanía en la Filosofía del Derecho de Hegel con el propósito de brindar una respuesta a esta pregunta y estar así en ...condiciones de evaluar los alcances del soberanismo contemporáneo y lo ajustado de sus pretensiones. Como se verá, Hegel construye su propia posición en diálogo crítico con los abordajes de Hobbes y Kant, con referencias más o menos explícitas. El desarrollo de este artículo está dividido en tres partes. En la primera, (a) se presenta la concepción hegeliana de la soberanía en el marco de su comprensión organicista del Estado, atendiendo tanto a su aspecto interior como exterior. En la segunda, (b) se analizan los fundamentos teóricos de la guerra en Hegel y su posición respecto de las relaciones internacionales. Por último, (c) se discuten los alcances del soberanismo en la actualidad a la luz del pensamiento hegeliano.
The present work argues that biblical theology is the attempt to 'update' the 'language of the message'. It is the work of translation: it searches for a language that attends to the concerns of ...today's world while 'preserving' the concerns that originally motivated biblical language.
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, ...the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which to analyze and approach the issue. Where most books on the digital divide only describe and analyze the issue, Jan van Dijk presents 26 policy perspectives and instruments designed to close the divide itself.
Constitutional dignity Barnes, Ashleigh
Melbourne University law review,
11/2023, Volume:
46, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
It has been argued that dignity was recognised in 'Clubb v Edwards' ('Clubb') as an Australian constitutional value. This means that Australia must confront the well-recognised confusion and ...criticisms concerning dignity as a legal concept. It is widely claimed that the meaning of dignity remains either indeterminate or incoherent, or both. This article argues that the meaning of dignity can be sufficiently determinate and coherent. The route to this conclusion is not to insist on a single formula across jurisdictions and contexts such as autonomy, equality or non-fungibility. Instead, drawing on the dominant conceptions, I propose a holistic four-dimensional approach to dignity. Guided by this definition, I offer an investigation into and explanation of the meaning of Australian constitutional dignity in 'Clubb'.
This book provides a unique, comparative assessment on how the nature of work is changing in 11 major developing countries, and the role that these changes play in shaping earnings inequality in ...these societies. It provides a nuanced and context-sensitive developing-country perspective with an in-depth assessment of national trends in earnings inequality, which are assessed against changes in the supply of higher skilled workers and education premia, on the one hand, and changes in the occupational structure and the remuneration of tasks, on the other, while being mindful of broader macroeconomic trends and institutional developments. We start showing that the common assumption that occupations are identical around the world tends to lead to an overestimation of the non-routine task content of jobs in developing and emerging economies. Then, we use country-specific measures of routine-task intensity, along with the standard O*NET measures, and other innovative ways to push the boundaries of existing research and make the most of the limited information that is available in each of the countries under study. We show that the large changes in the composition of workers by education and job routine-task intensity, which developing countries exhibited in the 2000s and 2010s, generally contributed to higher inequality, ceteris paribus. We also find evidence of job polarization or widening of earnings inequality driven by the evolution of routine intensity of jobs in several cases. However, changes in the education premium, along institutional factors, seem to explain inequality trends to a larger extent.
Historian Brandon O'Brien unveils an untold story of religious liberty in America. Between theocracy and secularism, Baptist pastor Isaac Backus contended for a third way--religious liberty and ...freedom of conscience for all Americans, regardless of belief. Backus's ideas impacted his era, giving us insight into how people of faith today can navigate political debates and work for the common good.
s a new technology, HAARP has several adverse effects on the international community, even though its owners say it is intended to study ionospheres to develop new technologies, facilitate radio ...communication, and counteract the negative effects of atomic explosions. This was not the case in principle, and its abuses and deviations have been observed, turning it into a technology against humanity. This article aims to examine the abuses of HAARP 's technology and how they violate fundamental human rights. Research methods are descriptive and analytical, and data collection is done through collection and filing. In this qualitative study, researchers found that Haarp's new technology violates fundamental human rights, including the right to life, freedom of thought, and future generations' rights.
