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The Relation of Conatus with spinoza`s Ethics [PDF]
Metaphysics, 2017 Conatus, the law of self-preservation, is an inherent striving of beings to persist on its own being.. Spinoza, after explaining the conatus and justifying the problem of self-destruction (suicide), rejected many of common concepts of his predecessors ...
muhammad ali abdllahi +1 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Freshwater availability is a critical climate change challenge in coastal delta regions. This challenge requires a transformative change toward circular water management. While experimentation and collaborative governance are recognized as enablers of transformative change, their interaction remains complex and insufficiently understood ...
Flavia Simona Albu Cosoveanu +3 more
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Effective Altruism and Care Ethics
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Effective altruism (EA) has received some of its most vocal criticisms from supporters of care ethics. In this article I take a comparative approach to determine whether a compelling critique of EA can emerge from care ethics at the ethical level, and more generally how much common ground can be found between the two.
Antonin Broi
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European Journal of Empirical Legal StudiesThis study examines the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) use of the canonical interpretation techniques (textual, systematic, historical, teleological) based on a novel comprehensive dataset of 8,436 judgments.
Tilmann Altwicker +3 more
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Interpretation as a Value (RE)Construction of the Legal Norm
Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2016 In the context of a normative concretisation of the statute, the term “statute” is not synonymous with the law that can be repeated in light of a concrete case.
Pavčnik Marijan
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016 The law-making role of judges has always been the subject of much controversy. For a good many a year and especially during the apartheid regime, the approach to statutory interpretation that dominated the South African courts was the orthodox textual ...
Annie Singh, Moreblessing Zaryl Bhero
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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Transatlantica, 2020 The melodramatic genre gestures towards the expression of a morally and emotionally legible world (Peter Brooks). Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831) and Robert Conrad’s Jack Cade (1841)—two plays that were awarded the Edwin Forrest Prize—are ...
Ronan Ludot-Vlasak
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Human as the infinite end: Elaborating on the theoretical and practical end in itself formula and the consequential interpretation of David Cummiskey [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2017 Human is an end in itself; this is Kant’s second formulation of categorical imperative, which has proved to be the most practical one for him. What is meant by "end in itself" as opposed to being "merely as a means"?
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Aframjani +1 more
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German Law JournalThis Article advocates for conceptualizing law as a design science, with a comprehensive approach that integrates formal, explanatory, and design dimensions of legal knowledge.
Antonio-Martín Porras-Gómez
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