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C. Michael Liberato Human Visibility and Democratic Space: A Critical Tool for Designing Our Social Institutions
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Alex Wellington “’Rewriting Genesis’: Intellectual Property Rights and Global (In)Justice”
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Yeager Hudson The Obsolescence of the Nation: Tagore on Nation versus State
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Alistair M. Macleod Realism in International Relations: Power, the National Interest, and Justice
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David A. Crocker Transitional Justice and International Civil Society
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Cheryl Hughes Human Rights, State Sovereignty, and Worid Community
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Mary Mahowald Is Feminism Compatible with Advocacy for the Disabled?: Wornen and Prenatal Testing
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Jason Gratl A Defence of Violence
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Jay Drydyk Globalization, North-South Solidarity, and Other Arguments for “Upward Harmonization” of Human Rights
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Jan Narveson Globalism and the Obsolescence of the State: New Support for Old Doubts
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E. J. Bond On Liberty and Property
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George Carew “Ethnic Cleansing” and the Liberal State: The Tragic Failure at Democratic Transition in Rwanda and Burundi
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Preface
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Carlos Bertha Obeying an Outlaw Order
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Cheryl Hughes Preface
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Charles W. Mills Defending the Radical Enlightenment
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In this paper, I differentiate “two Enlightenments,” the mainstream Enlightenment and what I call the “radical Enlightenment,” that is, Enlightenment theory (rationalism, humanism, objectivism) informed by the fact of social oppression. Marxism can be seen as the pioneering example of radical Enlightenment theory, but it is, of course, relatively insensitive to gender and race issues, so we also need to include Enlightenment versions of feminism and critical race theory. I defend the radical Enlightenment against (on one front) the mainstream Enlightenment criticism that it is either already included in the latter, or if excluded, justifiably so, and (on the other front) against anti-Enlightenment criticisms (poststructuralism and some multiculturalists) that in whatever form, Enlightenment theory cannot adequately address social oppression.
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William C. Pamerleau Ethical Uncertainty, Nietzschean Freedom, and the Continuing Need for an Existential Perspective
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Both existentialists and ethicists have made much of the concept of freedom. While these two camps make very different use of the concept, the relationship between the two is important: the nature and limits of freedom have an important bearing on moral responsibility, while the moral obligations to promote the development of freedom require that we understand just how free thinking is possible. In this paper, I will make some general observations about the prevailing trends in moral thought, both theoretically and culturally. I argue that now as much as in the past, existentialist descriptions of how freedom is experienced are a crucial complement to theoretical work on morality. Specifically, I argue that the uncertainty of our moral horizons and suspicions of the degree to which we are really free makes Nietzsche’s view of freedom a good fit for the ethical work that faces us in the twenty-first century.
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Noel E. Boulting Science as a Paradigm in the Formation of Socio-Ethical Judgments
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Whether science can be regarded as value-neutral remains a contestable issue. Much of that debate is confused because it is not made clear exactly what the term science is meant to include. Three conceptions can be delineated: the iconic, the indexical, and the interpretative. The iconic employs a wide usage of the term science to include any process of inquiry. The indexical refers to the way the outcomes of inquiry can be made subject to testing and criticism. The interpretative conception, growing out of the iconic, emphasizes the methodology of science, marking it off from other forms of inquiry. These three conceptions of science—delineated in the writings of Charles Peirce—have haunted debates in the philosophy of science during the twentieth century. But whichever conception is adopted, none of these three can offer a satisfactory account of the way in which socio-ethical judgments come to be formed for their application in everyday life.
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Haim Gordon, Rivca Gordon Heidegger's Understanding Of Truth And The Situation In The Gaza Strip
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This paper suggests that one of the reasons for the lack of understanding of what is happening in the Gaza Strip is our current understanding of truth. This understanding of truth, which has prevailed for 2500 years, holds that truth is the accordance of a statement with facts. Together with our recording some of the abuses of human rights in the Gaza Strip, which have all but been ignored, the paper suggests that Martin Heidegger’s understanding of truth as “aletheia,” as unconcealment, may lead to a better knowledge of what is truly occurring in the Gaza Strip.
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Introduction