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On the Supposed Incoherence of Obligations to Oneself

open access: yes, 2020
An influential argument against the possibility of obligations to oneself states that the very notion of such obligations is incoherent: If there were such obligations, we could release ourselves from them; yet releasing oneself from an obligation is ...
J. Schaab
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are ‘the affluent’ responsible for global poverty?

open access: yesEthics & Global Politics, 2019
According to Christian Barry & Gerhard Øverland (2016), there are multiple ways “the affluent” might be morally responsible for the situation the global poor are in, including having failed to assist them on a single occasion or on multiple occasions; by
Holly Lawford-Smith
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تعويم العملة وأثره في الالتزامات والعقود الآجلة في الفقه الإسلامي [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة الزهراء, 2021
تعويم العملة وأثره في الالتزامات والعقود الآجلة في الفقه الإسلامي ياسر حسن عبد التواب. قسم الفقه وأصوله، قسم الدراسات الإسلامية، کلية الآداب، جامعة المنيا، المنيا، مصر. البريد الإلکتروني: prof_yaser@mu.edu.eg الملخص: تحاول هذه الدراسة أن تبحث في أثر
ياسر حسن عبد التواب
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Obligations of the physician [PDF]

open access: yesThe Laryngoscope, 1915
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An Obligation to Enhance? [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 2017
This article discusses some rather formal characteristics of possible obligations to enhance. Obligations to enhance can exist in the absence of good moral reasons. If obligation and duty however are considered as synonyms, the enhancement involved must be morally desirable in some respect.
openaire   +2 more sources

SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE AND INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS FOR PROTECTION OF ACTIVE HYDROTHERMAL VENT ECOSYSTEMS FROM DEEP-SEA MINING

open access: yes, 2018
There is increasing interest in mining minerals on the seabed, including seafloor massive sulfide deposits that form at hydrothermal vents. The International Seabed Authority is currently drafting a Mining Code, including environmental regulations, for ...
C. L. Dover   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Monetary Sanctions: Legal Financial Obligations in US Systems of Justice

open access: yesannual review of criminology, 2017
This review assesses the current state of knowledge about monetary sanctions, e.g., fines, fees, surcharges, restitution, and any other financial liability related to contact with systems of justice, which are used more widely than prison, jail ...
K. Martin   +4 more
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Pathways to participation: openings, opportunities and obligations

open access: yes, 2001
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has raised the profile of children's participation in the United Kingdom. Hart's ‘ladder of participation’ has been the most influential model in this field. This paper offers an alternative model,
H. Shier
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The General Theory of Debts in the Islamic Law and its Comparison with the Western Law [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2015
Debt, unlike the western law, is considered as a quite independent concept from “obligation” in the Islamic law and is regarded essentially as a kind of intangible personal property which has the characteristics of ownership and is a species of Ein(thing)
Nasrollah Jafari Khosroabadi
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