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Individualism in African Moral Cultures [PDF]
, 2017 This article repudiates the dichotomy that African ethics is communitarian (relational) and Western ethics is individualistic. ‘Communitarianism’ is the view that morality is ultimately grounded on some relational properties like love or friendship; and,
Molefe, Motsamai
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Resolving the Dilemma of Democratic Informal Politics [PDF]
, 2017 The way citizens regard and treat one another in everyday life, even when they are not engaged in straightforwardly “political” activities, matters for achieving democratic ideals. This claim provokes an underexamined unease in many.
Mayer, Seth
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African Communitarianism and Difference [PDF]
, 2020 There has been the recurrent suspicion that community, harmony, cohesion, and similar relational goods as understood in the African ethical tradition threaten to occlude difference.
A Adeyinka +40 more
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Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the limits of mission‐directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope
Bryan Cheang, Praharsh Mehrotra
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The Difference between Moderate and Limited Communitarianism
ArụmarụkaThis article uses philosophical analysis to defend the status of limited communitarianism as a standalone theory in African political philosophy. Early African scholars like Ifeanyi Menkiti argued that the community takes priority over the individual in ...
Lungelo Siphosethu MBATHA
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Medienshow ohne Substanz? New Labour’s Dritter Weg [PDF]
, 1999 In May 1997 the British Labour Party swept into power with a majority which exceeded all expectations. Many ommentators in the 1980s had written off Labour's chances of governing again.
Martell, Luke
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Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
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Some Practical Applications of Bernard Matolino’s Limited Communitarianism
ArụmarụkaBernard Matolino’s critique of both the radical and moderate communitarian conception of personhood in African philosophy has itself been widely criticized by scholars such as Anthony Oritsegbugbemi Oyowe, Kai Horsthemke, and Mesembe Edet, just to ...
Maduka ENYIMBA, Chukwuemeka AWUGOSI
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Capital Punishment in Singapore: A Critical Analysis of State Justifications From 2004 to 2018
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020 This article examines state justifications for capital punishment in Singapore. Singapore is a unique case study because capital punishment has largely been legitimised and justified by state officials.
Ariel Yin Yee Yap, Shih Joo Tan
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The Politics of Death:On Life after the ‘End of History'. [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions.
Palladino, Paolo
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