Introduction I. Methodology II. Context of Debate A. A Review of Basic Concepts and Fundamental Arguments B. Why is Euthanasia Controversial? III. The "Right to Die" Debate A. The Facts B. The Meaning of Life C. The Problem with Professional Judgment D. Absolute Rule v. Variegated Circumstances E. Are There Absolute Moral Values and Universal Human Rights? F. The Problem with the AMA Code of Ethics G. Active vs. Passive Euthanasia H. Compassion vs. Professionalism I. The Problem with Rationing Medical Resources J. What Is a Rational Choice-Facts, Values, Opinions and Judgments? K. The Problems with Paternalism L. Rationality By Process or By Result? M. The Problem of Making a Decision in a Vacuum N. Should One Be Expected to Help Another Kill Himself? O. How to Evaluate Intangibles Such...
This Article is the second in a three-part series on the 2006 prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. The series, in turn, is part of a larger, ongoing project investigating the role of race, lawyers, and ethics in the American criminal-justice system. The purpose of the project is to understand the race-based, identity-making norms and practices of prosecutors and defenders in order to craft alternative civil-rights and criminal-justice strategies in cases of racially-motivated violence. To that end, this Article revisits the prosecution and defense of the Jena Six in the hope of uncovering the professional norms of practice under de jure and de facto conditions of racial segregation, a set of norms I call Jim Crow legal ethics. Jim Crow ethical norms cond...
... to diminish the mental capacity and moral character of black offenders and their communities...
... has global stature as the ultimate unit of moral concern and is therefore entitled to equal respect... capabilities, protecting basic human rights, or securing self-determination, while egalitarian..."Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty" Ethics 103, 1992, 48-75. . (2.) Brock, Gillian and Brigho...
The U. S. political and legal system had been based on the Lockean natural rights doctrine. It made the country's constitutional framework a distinctly individualist system, a revolutionary one at that. The government had been demoted while citizens promoted - their sovereignty came to be identified as unalienable. This was never unchallenged but in time the dominant intellectual current turned against it. So today the most prominent legal minds in America tend to be pragmatic; rights are taken to be grants of government, by such leading jurists as Harvard's Cass Sunstein (even conservative jurists, such as Chicago's Richard Posner, disavow the natural rights tradition). Here I dispute the wisdom of this development and urge the re-embrace of the jurisprudence of the Declaration of Inde...
... thinking that some extra legal or pre-legal moral and political ideas and ideals can give law legiti... how me natural law/rights approach to ethics and politics may make sense. The idea has been rec...
...It contains many important moral insights that ought not to be neglected. The other... institutions to ensure equal democratic rights and to prevent discrimination. . In his discussion..., 2006) and Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization (New Haven: Yale University Press...
My argument proceeds in the following stages. First, I argue that, pace Beiser, Fichte does not actually hold the sort of moral ultrarationalism attributed to him by Schiller. Following a brief discussion of the Kantian background to Fichte's moral philosophy, I show that he rejects this ultra-rationalism because it violates the requirements of moral agency, and so furnishes agents with aims that they cannot coherently pursue. Adapting the formal structure of Kant's "highest good" in his own way, Fichte presents what he calls a "real" ethics as an alternative to both rationalism and naturalism. Fichte's overriding concern in both instances is with agent unity, with the harmonization of the two sides of our Uves as moral agents, viz., sensibiUty and rationaUty. This is a concern that run...
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...Drawing on Habermas's notion of discourse ethics and agonistic democratic theory I offer an account...(21) In reconstructing a moral theory from the suppositions of unconstrained argu...
... between persons in the assigning of basic rights and duties and when the rules determine a proper b...'On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice', Ethics 99: 906-44. . Dworkin, Ronald 2003. 'Equality, Luc...
[...] that challenges the age-old distinction between theory and praxis, Levinas asserts that philosophy answers to a more fundamental ethical exigency which all humans undergo, "practically," all the time. [...] through bringing the later ethico-political philosophy of Albert Camus in The Rebel into an engagement with the more widely known ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, I will contest the lasting silence concerning Camus's political philosophy in philosophical literature.1 Secondly, I argue that Camus's account of political subjectivity in L'Homme Revolte decisively anticipates that later expounded by Levinas.
... and pettiness of the "slave revolt in morality" that he espied and reviled. Even a life force tha... to establish "a transition from facts to rights" (The Rebel, 21), as he says, but through what app...
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