Responsibility And Restraint
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Author | : Eric Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734585964 |
Essays on the work and thought of James Turner Johnson with respect to the history and ideas of the just war tradition
Author | : Matthew H. Kramer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-03-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0198868650 |
This book argues for the absolutist position on the freedom of expression, and how this principle is integral for society. This title also explores some of the most common arguments regarding freedom of expression including pornography and banning advocacy of hateful creeds.
Author | : Bruce N. Waller |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2024-12-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262553813 |
A vigorous attack on moral responsibility in all its forms argues that the abolition of moral responsibility will be liberating and beneficial. In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. The scientific understanding of human behavior and the causes that shape human character, he contends, leaves no room for moral responsibility. Waller argues that moral responsibility in all its forms—including criminal justice, distributive justice, and all claims of just deserts—is fundamentally unfair and harmful and that its abolition will be liberating and beneficial. What we really want—natural human free will, moral judgments, meaningful human relationships, creative abilities—would survive and flourish without moral responsibility. In the course of his argument, Waller examines the origins of the basic belief in moral responsibility, proposes a naturalistic understanding of free will, offers a detailed argument against moral responsibility and critiques arguments in favor of it, gives a general account of what a world without moral responsibility would look like, and examines the social and psychological aspects of abolishing moral responsibility. Waller not only mounts a vigorous, and philosophically rigorous, attack on the moral responsibility system, but also celebrates the benefits that would result from its total abolition.
Author | : Lawrence O. Gostin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780520226487 |
The first comprehensive treatment of public health law by the nation's leading expert in the field. In his research and teaching, Gostin has defined the field of public health law; this book represents the culmination of his research and thinking on the subject.
Author | : Howard S. Cohen |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1991-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The authors develop a system of ethical standards by which to measure responsible police behavior and apply these standards to several familiar yet challenging cases encountered daily in municipal patrol work.
Author | : Barry R. Posen |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801470862 |
The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics. Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this grand strategy works poorly and then provides a carefully designed alternative grand strategy and an associated military strategy and force structure. In contrast to the failures and unexpected problems that have stemmed from America’s consistent overreaching, Posen makes an urgent argument for restraint in the future use of U.S. military strength. After setting out the political implications of restraint as a guiding principle, Posen sketches the appropriate military forces and posture that would support such a strategy. He works with a deliberately constrained notion of grand strategy and, even more important, of national security (which he defines as including sovereignty, territorial integrity, power position, and safety). His alternative for military strategy, which Posen calls "command of the commons," focuses on protecting U.S. global access through naval, air, and space power, while freeing the United States from most of the relationships that require the permanent stationing of U.S. forces overseas.
Author | : James Hervey Hyslop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Rivka Weinberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0190243708 |
This original, comprehensive theory of procreative ethics explains what kind of act procreation is and when we may permissibly engage in it. In order to ascertain when the procreative risk is permissible to impose, Weinberg proposes contractualist principles to fairly attend to the interests prospective parents have in procreating and the interests future people have in a life of human flourishing. The book presents a solution to the non-identity problem as well as dilemmas regarding our liberal principles of autonomy, consent, and equality, which may seem to be in tension with our procreative practices.
Author | : Alex J. Bellamy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1169 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198753845 |
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale - have occurred even during the post 1945 period when the United Nations was built to save us all from the scourge of genocide. The R2P concept accords to sovereign states and international institutions a responsibility to assist peoples who are at risk - or experiencing - the worst atrocities. R2P maintains that collective action should be taken by members of the United Nations to prevent or halt such gross violations of basic human rights. This Handbook, containing contributions from leading theorists, and practitioners (including former foreign ministers and special advisors), examines the progress that has been made in the last 10 years; it also looks forward to likely developments in the next decade.
Author | : Professor Alan Reed |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1409497828 |
This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general. The work includes contributions from leading specialists from different jurisdictions. Divided into two parts, the first provides an analysis from the perspective of the UK, looking at particular concerns such as domestic violence, revenge and mixed motive killings, mistaken beliefs. The second part presents a comparative and international view to provide a wider background of how alternative systems treat issues of human frailty short of full insanity (loss of control, diminished responsibility) in the context of the criminal law.