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How Rights Became "Subjective" [PDF]
What is commonly called a right has since about 1980 increasingly come to be called a subjective right. In this paper the origin and rise of this solecism is investigated. Its use can result in a lack of clarity and even confusion. Some aspects of rights-
Mautner, Thomas
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Law and Political Thought [PDF]
In the modern period, the most original and influential theories about law and politics were developed in connection with a set of far-reaching, interrelated questions about the definition of law, the purpose of law, the relationship between law and ...
Baur, Michael
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Rethinking the eidos, genos, and diaphora of the health utility concept: a psychological perspective. [PDF]
Broekharst DSE +5 more
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I share with Fred Schauer the relatively unpopular belief that the positivist insistence that we keep separate the legal is from the legal ought is a logical prerequisite to meaningful legal criticism, and therefore, in the constitutional context, is
West, Robin
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A short (about 1,000 words) overview of adjudication, describing the standard view (judges should just apply the law, when possible) and two goal-oriented views: wealth maximization and the maximization of well-being – i.e., utilitarian ...
Eggleston, Ben
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Unifying two medicines to fight pain and to make anesthesia safer. [PDF]
Portier K.
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Jeremy Bentham: Prophet of Secularism [PDF]
To speak of a secular prophet appears nowadays to be a contradiction in terms. A prophet is usually understood to be a person who, inspired by supernatural agency, speaks on behalf of that agent and predicts the future.
Schofield, TP
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ETHICS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. [PDF]
Giwa AO, Myers M, Urdaneta A.
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Sturen op geluk: is dat mogelijk en wenselijk? [PDF]
Het idee dat de overheid zou moeten sturen op geluk is meer dan 200 jaar geleden al bepleit door Jeremy Bentham (1789). Volgens hem moeten wij streven naar groter geluk voor een groter aantal mensen, ook bij het maken van publieke keuzen. Dit heet in het
Veenhoven, R. (Ruut)
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