Taking care to protect the environment against damage: A meaningless obligation? [PDF]
, 2010 Little attention is paid to the obligation of 'care' in Article 55(1) of Additional Protocol I. Beyond a general principle of upholding environmental value in times of armed conflict, what is the scope and content of the obligation?
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Kant and the duty to promote one’s own happiness [PDF]
, 2018 In his discussion of the duty of benevolence in §27 of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that agents have no obligation to promote their own happiness, for ‘this happens unavoidably’ (MS, AA 6:451).
Kahn, Samuel
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The right not to know and the obligation to know
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020 There is significant controversy over whether patients have a ‘right not to know’ information relevant to their health. Some arguments for limiting such a right appeal to potential burdens on others that a patient’s avoidable ignorance might generate ...
Ben Davies
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On Gellman's Attempted Rescue [PDF]
, 2010 In "Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism" (2009), I argued that traditional theism threatens ordinary morality by relieving us of any moral obligation to prevent horrific suffering by innocent people even when we easily can.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Comparison of the "André Tank's" View on the Basis of Contractual and Civil Liability with the Position of Iran Civil Law [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق اسلامی, 2015 Discussion of the root of contractual and tortious liability ,and their unity or multiplicity is one of the most important and effective comparative debates between the two fields of contracts and irrecusably obligations (obligations by operation of law,
Sa'eed Bigdeli
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The Opposability of the Effects of the Contract on Third Parties [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2019 The principle of relativity of the contract’s effects means that a contract can generate rights and obligations only in favor of, or regarding the obligation of the contracting parties, as well as of persons who became parties after closing the contract ...
Sorin Calafus
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The double-facing foreign relations function of the executive and its self-enforcing obligation to comply with international law [PDF]
, 2019 How does the international Rule of Law apply to constrain the conduct of the Executive within a constitutional State that adopts a dualist approach to the reception of international law?
McLachlan, Campbell A.
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Sense of Filial Obligation and Caregiving Burdens Among Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2019 Focusing on Chinese immigrants, this study examined (1) whether filial obligation, the core social norm in the Chinese culture, is related to caregiving burdens; and (2) whether level of acculturation of the caregivers moderates the above relationships.
M. Guo, S. Kim, XinQi Dong
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Human-centred robotics and the EU AI Act: selected standards and implications
Mokslo Taikomieji TyrimaiRobotics and AI are key factors in enhancing business and national resilience, particularly in maintaining high-wage manufacturing in countries facing demographic challenges. Both are instrumental in making manufacturing more agile and flexible.
Ralf Roßkopf
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Non-discrimination in the draft of the Serbian Civil Code [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2018 The draft of the Serbian Civil Code facilitates the combat against discrimination in several ways. It enables the impact of non-discrimination norms in the civil law relations according to each of three theoretical models of appllication od human rights ...
Rašević Živorad M.
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