Results 1 to 10 of about 116,948 (163)
Medical complicity and the legitimacy of practical authority
If medical complicity is understood as compliance with a directive to act against the professional's best medical judgment, the question arises whether it can ever be justified. This paper will trace the contours of what would legitimate a directive to act against a professional's best medical judgment (and in possible contravention of her oath) using ...
exaly +3 more sources
Norm as an exclusionary reason for action [PDF]
Legal rules are respected and observed for various reasons but Raz believes that a legal norm is an exclusionary reason for action, i.e. the reason that cannot be weighed with other reasons which have to direct our conduct.
Hadži Stević Brano
doaj +1 more source
Justified epistemic authority (in legal interpretation) [PDF]
The paper analyzes one of the main influences on the results of legal interpretation - epistemic authority. An account of authority is given along with a distinction between two basic types of authority, followed by a brief explanation of practical ...
Spaić Bojan
doaj +1 more source
Problematising practices: Authors’ response [PDF]
Authors' response to reviews of Globalising Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption (Wiley-Blackwell).
Barnett, Clive +2 more
openaire +2 more sources
This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts.
Agata Paluch
doaj +1 more source
The Authority of Precedents in Civil Law Systems
In this paper, precedents are analysed in terms of reasons that they can give to judges in various legal systems, with the purpose of identifying the ways in which precedents can be authoritative in judicial reasoning.
Bojan Spaić
doaj +1 more source
Multiauthority Attribute-Based Encryption With Dynamic Membership From Lattices
Attribute-based encryption is useful for one-to-many encrypted message sending. However, most attribute-based encryption schemes authorize and issue attributes to users by a single authority.
Er-Shuo Zhuang, Chun-I Fan, I-Hua Kuo
doaj +1 more source
Critical Analysis of the Nature and Factors Affecting Disposition in Ibn Sina's Ethical School [PDF]
An existential analysis of dispositions is a significant matter. Based on this perspective, the place of dispositions within the soul and its impact on the theoretical and practical aspects of human life is explained philosophically.
Zahra Saeed Tehrani, Fateme Soleimani
doaj +1 more source
Tweeting God: Notes on articulating a Twitter theology
As part of the search for relevant and contextual articulations of theology, this article provides an overview of a comprehensive research project that explored, described and analysed Christian motifs on Twitter.
Jan A. van den Berg
doaj +1 more source
The Boundaries and Authority of Catholic Social Teaching: A Reply to John Finnis
This article submits that getting clearer on the complexity of practical reasoning is crucial for clarifying the relationship between Catholic social teaching (CST) and what is commonly understood as Catholic moral teaching.
Bernard G. Prusak
doaj +1 more source

