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What a State: Why the U.S. is Still Bad for Your Health (Policy)
ABSTRACT The second Trump administration's centrepiece legislation, the modestly‐named Big Beautiful Bill, passed by the House of Representatives and going through the Senate at time of writing, offers an opportunity to reflect upon how the U.S. state affects health policy and the prospects for equitable access to affordable healthcare.
Calum Paton
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Abstract The perceptions and representations of whiteness around motherhood, family, and black sexuality reproduce the logic of what Hortense Spillers calls “captive flesh”, controlling understandings about femininity, motherhood, and gender. This debate is guided by the politics of the racial neoliberal agenda that works to control the urban ...
Danielle Pereira de Araújo
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Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion
In this paper I address the problem of Ortega’s liberalism. I try to characterize Ortega’s liberal creed considering his well-known statemen, in The Revolt of the Masses, that the 20th century needs a liberalism different from the 19th century one.
Carlos Morujão
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Political Liberalism and the Characterization of the Moral Virtues
The Virtue ethical approach to morality is generally thought to be in tension with liberalism in politics. Their incompatibility seems to be straightforward when considering political liberalism.
Luciano Javier Venezia
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Humanizing Connections Outside of Higher Education
ABSTRACT This New Directions in Teaching and Learning issue has focused on rehumanizing higher education. Authors have highlighted a wide array of important topics that are relevant to ensuring the humanizing purposes of higher education are met by today's and tomorrow's colleges and universities.
Peter C. Mather
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Freedom, liberalism, multiculturalism [PDF]
In this article author proves connection between liberalism and multiculturalism in individual‘s political freedom. Individual freedom connected with political participation, in multicultural contexts, can be shown as means to achieve group ...
Stanković-Pejnović Vesna
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Disrupting (as) Educational Development
ABSTRACT Framed as a conversation among four authors who have all worked as educational developers, this chapter explores how educational development as a profession is itself colonial and how these colonial aspects can present barriers to educational developers seeking to use Disrupting interviews as a form of educational development.
Robin Attas+3 more
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Taylor’s Critique of Procedural Liberalism and Modern Practical Rationality
This article examines Charles Taylor’s critique of the model of procedural liberalism and the modern conception of practical rationality. The starting point is that Taylor’s critique is based on contributions of the substantive philosophical tradition ...
Nelson Jair Cuchumbé H.
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