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Love and the Basis of Dignity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Sartre's Private Language Argument

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Various commentators have noted striking parallels between Wittgenstein's reflections on privacy and Sartre's discussions of the body in Being and Nothingness. Nevertheless, these aspects of Sartre's thought have seldom been explored in detail.
Alex Englander
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
wiley   +1 more source

The role of forensic imaging in the allegations of torture in asylum seekers. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Legal Med
Albano GD   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

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