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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective
Dialog, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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Mapping the Bentham Corpus: Concept-based Navigation [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2019 British philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) left over 60,000 folios of unpublished manuscripts. The Bentham Project, at University College London, is creating a TEI version of the manuscripts, via crowdsourced transcription verified by ...
Pablo Ruiz, Thierry Poibeau
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A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and
Bruce D. McDonald III +9 more
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Globalizing Jeremy Bentham [PDF]
, 2013 Jeremy Bentham's career as a writer spanned almost seventy years, from the Seven Years' War to the early 1830s, a period contemporaries called an age of revolutions and more recent historians have seen as a world crisis.
Armitage, David R.
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Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry +2 more
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2017 In this essay, I examine the relatively little-known and commented-upon writings of Jeremy Bentham regarding the potentially beneficial uses of torture in a utilitarian frame.
Justin Clemens
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MORALĖS BEI ĮSTATYMŲ LEIDYBOS PRINCIPŲ ĮVADAS (ištrauka)
Problemos, 2013 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (excerpt ...
Jeremy Bentham
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Contextualising Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract More than a century ago, W. N. Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights.
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald
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Bentham y los hombres de la Independencia
Revista Colombiana de Educación, 1994 Ningún reformador inglés del siglo XIX recibió tanta admiración de sus contemporáneos latinoamericanos como Jeremy Bentham, el prolífico autor de los tratados utilitaristas sobre gobierno, economía y leyes.
Theodora McKennan
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