Contractarianism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2012-8-3 7:55)
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[Revised entry by Ann Cudd on August 2, 2012.
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"Contractarianism" names both a political theory of the legitimacy of political authority and a moral theory about the origin or legitimate content of moral norms. The political theory of authority claims that legitimate authority of government must derive from the consent of the governed, where the form and content of this consent derives from the idea of contract or mutual agreement. The moral theory...
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Civil Rights
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2012-8-2 14:01)
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[Revised entry by Andrew Altman on August 1, 2012.
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In contemporary political thought, the term 'civil rights' is indissolubly linked to the struggle for equality of American blacks during the 1950s and 60s. The aim of that struggle was to secure the status of equal citizenship in a liberal democratic state. Civil rights are the basic legal rights a person must possess in order to have such a status. They are the rights that constitute...
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Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2012-8-2 13:44)
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[Revised entry by Georgia Warnke on August 1, 2012.
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Analytic approaches to feminism typically take their starting point from the philosophy of language and from Anglo-American political philosophers, whereas Continental approaches generally look to European theories and theorists. However, the approaches share common concerns. Both worry about essentialist and falsely universalized conceptions of women; both are concerned with issues of justice; and...
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Naturalism in Legal Philosophy
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2012-8-1 15:15)
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[Revised entry by Brian Leiter on July 31, 2012.
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The "naturalistic turn" that has swept so many areas of philosophy over the past three decades has also had an impact in the last decade in legal philosophy. Methodological naturalists (M-naturalists) view philosophy as continuous with empirical inquiry in the sciences. Some M-naturalists want to replace conceptual and justificatory theories with empirical and descriptive...
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Max Weber
from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(2012-8-1 8:33)
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[Revised entry by Sung Ho Kim on July 31, 2012.
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Arguably the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century, Max Weber is known as a principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. Weber's wide-ranging contributions gave critical impetus to the birth of new academic disciplines such as sociology and public administration as well as to the significant reorientation in law, economics, political science,...
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食品中の放射性物質の検査結果について(第445報)(東京電力福島原子力発電所事故関連)
from 厚生労働省新着情報
(2012-7-31 20:00)
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第2回社会保障制度の低所得者対策の在り方に関する研究会 資料
from 厚生労働省新着情報
(2012-7-31 19:00)
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第24回チーム医療推進のための看護業務検討ワーキンググループ資料
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(2012-7-31 19:00)
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政策評価に関する有識者会議医療・衛生WG(第1回)資料
from 厚生労働省新着情報
(2012-7-31 18:20)
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化粧品規制協力国際会議(ICCR)第6回 結果概要
from 厚生労働省新着情報
(2012-7-31 18:00)
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