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How Rights Became "Subjective" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2023
Broekharst DSE   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Natural Law Ambiguities [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
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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Adjudication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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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Jeremy Bentham: Prophet of Secularism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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Offences against Status. [PDF]

open access: yesOxf J Leg Stud, 2023
Letsas G.
europepmc   +1 more source

ETHICS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Emerg Med, 2023
Giwa AO, Myers M, Urdaneta A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sturen op geluk: is dat mogelijk en wenselijk? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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