Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
TL;DR: Lawler as mentioned in this paper argued that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament, which is hardly a rational position in the sense that it is suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some.
Abstract: that a plurality of the American Catholic bishops endorse a nuclear freeze (p. 4), saying that they are thus "taking their stance with Moscow,55 which is for a freeze, and not with the Vatican, which "is still in favor of disarmament?not a freeze.55 To make any sense at all, Mr. Lawler must mean that being for the freeze means that one is not for disarmament? hardly a rational position. One recalls here the arguments, during the 19305s and 19405s, that being for racial justice in the United States was suspect if not immoral, in the eyes of some, because the communists also favored it.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that sovereignty claims and counterclaims are still very much at work in international and civil conflicts involving state actors, focusing on the case of the Syrian conflict.
Abstract: The article argues that sovereignty claims and counterclaims are still very much at work in international and civil conflicts involving state actors. Focusing on the case of the Syrian conflict, th...
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TL;DR: It is concluded that viable interpretations of the meaning of old age should comply with the values of liberal individualism and meaning should be localised less at the level of global ideas and images and more at thelevel of local and heterogeneous practices.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Daniel Callahan has maintained that a common understanding of the meaning of old age and the proper role of old people in society is a prerequisite for decisions on the distribution of health-care resources to the elderly. The call for such a common understanding is traced to the writings of Thomas Cole and Harry Moody. A discussion of their ideas is followed by a philosophical analysis of communitarian accounts of meaning and the good life in general. It is concluded that viable interpretations of the meaning of old age should comply with the values of liberal individualism. Meaning should be localised less at the level of global ideas and images and more at the level of local and heterogeneous practices. The practice of distributing health-care resources cannot and should not be regulated by communitarian interpretations of the value of old age. It would seem to be sufficiently infused by liberal individualist interpretations of meaning and justice.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the extent of institutional change within the organisational field of municipalities and competitive sport in Sweden and conclude that there is both a continuation of and a challenge to the institutional relationship between municipalities and sport as a result of new institutional logics.
Abstract: This paper examines the extent of an institutional change within the organisational field of municipalities and competitive sport in Sweden. First, there is both a continuation of and a challenge to the institutional relationship between municipalities and competitive sport as a result of new institutional logics. Second, although there are competing institutional logics, the municipalities have an ambivalent approach towards the stadium requirements from competitive sport. On the one hand, the municipalities wish to continue their mutual exchange with competitive sport, and finance and support it, while avoiding competing institutional logics within the organisational field. On the other hand, if they are not able to have an increased influence over the development of the stadium requirements, the municipalities express that they define the stadium requirements as private issue and a task for competitive sport itself. The conclusion is that the financing of stadium requirements and the definition...
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...Governments’ obligations and the boundaries of the state have been examined and defined through diverse political approaches and philosophies (see, for example, Walzer 1983, Rawls, [1971] 2008, Nozick, [1974] 2013)....
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the exception must be a legitimate possibility within law as a revolutionary project, in much the same way that civil disobedience is, in which the exception is not outside law if by "law" we mean not positive law as defined by extant legal documents (statutes, legislative committee reports, written judgments, etc.) but a living tradition consisting of both abstract norms and a concrete historical understanding of them.
Abstract: I argue that the exception must be a legitimate possibility within law as a revolutionary project, in much the same way that civil disobedience is. In this sense, the exception is not outside law if by "law" we mean not positive law as defined by extant legal documents (statutes, legislative committee reports, written judgments, etc.) but law as a living tradition consisting of both abstract norms and a concrete historical understanding of them. So construed, the exception is what can be exemplary - a law unto itself that best interprets and creatively extends (and transcends) the law that already exists, in order to make it inclusive of the other. In the final analysis, immigration law forces us to consider both the concrete individuality and abstract humanity of refugees, asylum seekers and other homeless persons who have been displaced by global economic underdevelopment. When combined with the "statelessness" of desperate classes of immigrants, this fact about immigration law reveals a revolut...
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TL;DR: This article explored how Singapore social studies, geography and history teachers make meaning of the concept of meritocracy and its role in the education system, and found that participants in the participa...
Abstract: This study explores how Singapore social studies, geography and history teachers make meaning of the concept of meritocracy and its role in the education system. The findings indicate the participa...
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...…merit in order to determine the kinds of resources and rewards to be apportioned to them frequently include normative values and cultural assumptions (Walzer, 1983; Young, 2002), and ignore how economic, social and cultural factors affect students’ academic performance (McNamee & Miller, 2004)....
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...The teachers also recognised the contingent nature of merit and commented on how merit criteria and evaluation was based on normative values and cultural assumptions (Walzer, 1983; Young, 2002)....
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