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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
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Prophetic promise: the lineal return of ‘lopp'd branches’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative power of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare's ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

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