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Freedom, Reason and History: The Hegelian heritage in Gadamer and Habermas. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Freedom, Reason and History: The Hegelian heritage in Gadamer and Habermas. This essay aims at an elaboration of the theme of freedom by taking into account Gadamer"s and Habermas"s appropriation of Hegel.
Hedberg, Petra
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From the morality of living to the morality of sying: hunger strikes in Turkish prisons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Political hunger strikes have been part of the debates on human rights in many countries around the world. This paper explores the preconditions for and motives behind hunger strikes in Turkey by conceiving the hunger strikers as a part of citizenship ...
Kocan, Gurcan   +3 more
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Theories on Conflict: Kant versus Hegel

open access: yesJournal of Student Research
The German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hegel are often regarded as two of the most significant minds during the Age of Enlightenment. This essay will examine the similarities and differences in how the two philosophers approached the concept of “conflict,” which takes up a major part in their systems of history and philosophy.
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Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections. How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
My recent book The Degradation of the International Legal Order? attempts a political account of human rights, and engages with the work of China Miéville and Susan Marks, as well as the extraordinary opus of Alain Badiou. The book has been well received.
Bowring, Bill
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Do organisms have an ontological status? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The category of ‘organism’ has an ambiguous status: is it scientific or is it philosophical? Or, if one looks at it from within the relatively recent field or sub-field of philosophy of biology, is it a central, or at least legitimate category therein ...
Wolfe, Charles T.
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The Law of Political Economy: An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The law of political economy is a contentious ideological field characterised by antagonistic relations between scholarly positions which tend to be either affirmative or critical of capitalism. Going beyond this schism, two particular features appear as
Kjaer, Poul F.
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Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many historically-influential philosophers had profoundly wrong moral views or behaved very badly. Aristotle thought women were “deformed men” and that some people were slaves “by nature.” Descartes had disturbing views about non-human animals.
Abundez-Guerra, Victor F., Nobis, Nathan
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The Need for Empirically-Led Synthetic Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The problem of unifying knowledge represents the frontier between science and philosophy. Science approaches the problem analytically bottom-up whereas, prior to the end of the nineteenth century, philosophy approached the problem synthetically top-down.
Scoular, Spencer
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