Essays about: "Walzer."
Found 3 essays containing the word Walzer..
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1. Law+Impunity=Legitimacy? Rethinking liberal legitimacy of international law with a feminist critical approach
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In here, the criminalization of sexual violence is a manifestation of increased recognition of feminism, and proof of international law reaching at liberal criteria for legitimization. Though, in making conclusions other necessary criteria for fully recognized legitimacy are acknowledged (such as other types of rights, types of security and other levels for analysis). READ MORE
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2. Do we have a moral duty to offer severely ill asylum-seeking children residence permits?
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : Do we have a moral duty to offer severely ill asylum- seeking children permanent residence permits? This thesis analyses our moral duty to offer 410 severely ill asylum-seeking children permanent residence permits. During 2004 an emotionally charged debate started in Sweden. READ MORE
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3. Title Legitimacy of power : an argument about the justification of redistributions and restrictions of liberty of action within a state
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : This thesis aims at answering the following questions:1) How can the existence of a state be justified?2) To what extent does the state have the right to restrict individual´s liberty of action?3) To what extent does the state have the right to restrict or redistribute any kind of "goods", and if so, which restrictions should be allowed on which"goods"?4) Can a moral theory be "goal-directed", and are there moral reasons that it should be "goaldirected"? In order to answer these questions, I will analyze Robert Nozick´s and Michael Walzer´s answers to these questions, as presented in Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) and Spheres of Justice (1983). My answers, which are founded on an argument for the necessity of freedom of choice and ambition-sensitivity in theories of justice, are results of a compromise between the ideas in these theories, but also partially on criticism of both theories. READ MORE
