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The Narrow and Broad Scope of Public Rights from the Perspective of Objective Consequentialism [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒UmūmīIntroduction The concept of public rights is commonly understood as the rights of the general public. However, when scrutinized more closely, this notion becomes somewhat ambiguous, leading to questions and disagreements among legal doctrines and ...
Ali Reza Nasrollahi, Mostafa Mansourian
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The Political Economy of Swift’s Satires and other Prose Works
Œconomia, 2014 Jonathan Swift wrote perceptively about the emerging commercial society in Britain in the early eighteenth century. His particular focus was on the financial revolution and its implications for economic and political stability as well as for shifts of ...
Renee Prendergast
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Bertrand Russell, The Utilitarian Pacifist
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), one of the towering intellectuals of the 20th century, was an indefatigable pacifist throughout the Great War. But his pacifism was not unreserved, depending as it did on his consequentialist attitude towards war and towards
Olivier Esteves
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Right to Life, a Divine Right or a Human Right? [PDF]
حقوق بشر, 2023 Undoubtedly, the right to life is the most important of all rights. Regarding this point, the fundamental question is, who has the authority to make laws and take action resulting in humans being killed? In response to this question, in this paper, I aim
Mir Saeid Mousavi Karimi
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Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos
Conservation Letters, 2022 Legal hunting of threatened species—and especially the recreational practice of “trophy hunting”—is controversial with ethical objections being increasingly voiced.
Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes +3 more
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The Ambitions of Consequentialism
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2020 Consequentialism is most famously a theory of right action. But many consequentialists assume, and some have explicitly argued, that consequentialism is equally plausible as a direct theory of the right rules, motives, character traits, institutions, and even such things as climates and eye colors.
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The ethics of globalisation, free trade and fair trade [PDF]
, 2011 In this thesis I take a broadly consequentialist normative position and argue that because fair trade is an inefficient method of aiding the poor, we should not support it and prefer free trade goods with an appropriate and equal donation to a charity,
Wood, Daniel
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Sumienie i nauki o sumieniu z perspektywy neuronauk
Scientia et Fides, 2014 Neuroscientific perspectives on conscience and conscience-related researchRecent years have witnessed a growth in empirical research into the biological correlates of conscience and moral decision-making. The central questions posed and addressed in such
Józef Bremer
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A Comparative Study of Structure of Civil Liability in Common Law System and Law of Islam [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2018 From a long time ago up to now, the structure of civil liability in Common Law has been right-centered and based upon prohibited behavior formatted on forms of the action and focused on the effects and consequences of human action against rights of ...
Iraj Babayi, smaeil keshavarz safi yi
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WAS J. BENTHAM THE FIRST LEGAL UTILITARIAN?
RUDN Journal of Law, 2020 Legal utilitarianism is attractive for practice because this field of legal thought and philosophy of law sets out a particular direction of legal policy and statutory regulation (focus on the utility principle in decision-making) that can, under certain
Igor V. Kolosov, Konstantin E. Sigalov
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