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Is there a “right” to self‐defense?
Criminal Justice Ethics, 2004The use of defensive force, even deadly force, in protection of self or others (hereinafter "self-defense") is a paradigm of moral and legal permissibility. However, just why this is so has turned out to be quite a puzzle; indeed, there is today hardly the slightest consensus on the moral justification for this permission to use force, or even on what ...
Whitley R. P. Kaufman
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Journal of Business Ethics, 1985
Recent trends in business ethics along with growing attacks upon unions, suggest that employee rights will be a major social concern for business managers during the next decade. However, in most of the discussions of employee rights to date, the very meaning and legitimacy of such rights are often uncritically taken for granted.
Joseph R. Des Jardins, John J. McCall
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Recent trends in business ethics along with growing attacks upon unions, suggest that employee rights will be a major social concern for business managers during the next decade. However, in most of the discussions of employee rights to date, the very meaning and legitimacy of such rights are often uncritically taken for granted.
Joseph R. Des Jardins, John J. McCall
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International Studies Perspectives, 2007
This article argues that there are two justifications of the right of national defense. First, some states possess the right as a means of protecting legitimate domestic political institutions. Second, all states possess the right within a morally defensible form of international law.
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This article argues that there are two justifications of the right of national defense. First, some states possess the right as a means of protecting legitimate domestic political institutions. Second, all states possess the right within a morally defensible form of international law.
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2022
Abstract This chapter examines the use of social rights defensively: as shields to protect existing entitlements rather than as swords to create new ones. Social rights are commonly used as shields by individuals, to protect against evictions or to stop a wide range of cuts to social programs and benefits such as water, social ...
Rosalind Dixon, David Landau
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Abstract This chapter examines the use of social rights defensively: as shields to protect existing entitlements rather than as swords to create new ones. Social rights are commonly used as shields by individuals, to protect against evictions or to stop a wide range of cuts to social programs and benefits such as water, social ...
Rosalind Dixon, David Landau
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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2010
I argue that animals have rights in the sense of having valid claims, which might turn out to be actual rights as society advances and new scientific-technological developments facilitate finding alternative ways of satisfying our vital interests without using animals.
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I argue that animals have rights in the sense of having valid claims, which might turn out to be actual rights as society advances and new scientific-technological developments facilitate finding alternative ways of satisfying our vital interests without using animals.
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Defendants’ Rights and Defenses
2020This chapter shows that courts and commentators sometimes use the concept of gravity to justify restricting defendants’ rights, including the right to a fair trial, and to limit defenses, such as those based on amnesties and immunities. As in the contexts discussed in earlier chapters, such invocations of gravity tend to obscure competing values and ...
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2002
AbstractHohfeld treats liberties as a normative relation between three elements: subject (the party who possesses the liberty), content (what the subject has a liberty to do), and object (the party with respect to whom the liberty is held). This chapter develops a working explanatory model of defensive rights by adding to these three elements a so ...
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AbstractHohfeld treats liberties as a normative relation between three elements: subject (the party who possesses the liberty), content (what the subject has a liberty to do), and object (the party with respect to whom the liberty is held). This chapter develops a working explanatory model of defensive rights by adding to these three elements a so ...
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Manninen's Defense of Abortion Rights Is Unsuccessful
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2010According to Bertha Manninen, even if fetuses have the same right to life as the rest of us, abortion would still be morally permissible (Manninen 2010).
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