Essays about: "Philip Pettit"
Found 4 essays containing the words Philip Pettit.
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1. Neo-republicanism as a framework for a political theory of animal protection - An evaluation of Philip Pettit’s neo-republican theory of freedom and its potential for extending justice to non-human animals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Non-human animals are often excluded from contemporary political theories, much to their detriment in terms of welfare and protection. The ‘political turn’ is a subset of animal ethicists concerned with moving beyond motivating moral status and instead discussing the politics of a shared human-animal society. READ MORE
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2. Group Agents and Moral Responsibility : An Analysis of the Theory of Group Agency Given by List and Pettit
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för filosofi, historia, konst och religionAbstract : In this essay I discuss if groups can be morally responsible agents over and above the responsibility of their individual members. I consider an important collectivist theory given by List and Pettit arguing that groups can be responsible over its members. READ MORE
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3. On Nondomination : A comparative study on the distinctiveness and the preferability of freedom as nondomination vis-à-vis freedom as noninterference
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : The recent years have seen the revival of neo-Roman republicanism through the works of Philip Pettit, who has replaced Isaiah Berlin’s taxonomy of positive/negative liberty with freedom as nondomination. This essay compares the neo-Roman conception of nondomination to the liberal conception of noninterference, with the purpose of clarifying whether nondomination is a distinct concept of liberty and preferable to that of noninterference. READ MORE
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4. The ban of religious symbols in primary and secondary schools in France : A short analysis of its compatibility with Pettit’s theory of liberty as non-domination
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE