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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India [PDF]
, 2002 Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students.
Gupta, Gautam +2 more
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Protests as World‐Making Projects
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On one common way of distinguishing forms of protest, civil disobedience is a communicative act that aims to achieve its goals through moral persuasion, whereas direct action has as its goal to directly obstruct or deter a perceived injustice.
Lidal Dror, Sukaina Hirji
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Critical Review of John Rawls's Theory of Justice with Emphasis on the Scope and Definition of Justice [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2017 It can be claimed that the subject of justice is the basis and the source of different theories as well as affairs management in the arena of human social life. Social science theorists cannot escape from resorting to a concept and theory of justice in
Mohammad Nemati
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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System uzasadnienia teorii sprawiedliwości Johna Rawlsa [PDF]
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2013 The paper considers a fundamental issue set against the backcloth of John Rawls’s theory of justice, namely the structure of its justification system. The issue is so significant, because justification fulfills a key role in the Rawlsian conception.
Wojciech Ciszewski
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
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A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
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Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance [PDF]
, 2001 J. Rawls and R. Dworkin have each used veils of ignorance to justify equality (Rawls) or to compute what equality entails (Dworkin). J. Harsanyi has also derived a distributive ethic from a veil of ignorance argument, which, although not egalitarian, is ...
Roemer, John E.
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John Rawls and the Pursuit of Social Justice in Contemporary Nigeria: A Philosophical Study
Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan UniversityThis article examines the potential application of John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness to the contemporary sociopolitical situation in Nigeria. With a population of over 235 million people representing diverse ethnic and religious groups, Nigeria
Oladele Daniel Idowu +1 more
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