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Are all rights positive?

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Not all rights have been demonstrated to be positive, as some researchers have asserted. Rights may be seen as the source of legitimate government, but they can be described as negative and positive where noninterference with government interests is enforced by government.

Author: Gewirth, Alan
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2001

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The difference uniforms make: Collective violence in criminal law and war

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War is a form of collective violence that poses a set of challenges to the application of moral principles. A conflict between two themes of inculpation and exculpation in response to collective violence is identified.

Author: Kutz, Christopher
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2005
Ethics, Domestic Violence (Families), Ethical aspects, War, Family violence, Domestic violence, Criminal law, Social groups, Morality of war, War and morals

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Respect for presons and perfectionist politics

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The Kantian perspective is explained to be the most promising motivation for liberalism. When open perfectionism is linked with a Kantian perspective, a principled alternative of civil liberty is formed.

Author: Metz, Thaddeus
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Philosophy & Public Affairs
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0048-3915
Year: 2001
Influence, Speeches, lectures and essays, Liberalism, Kantianism

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Subjects list: Analysis, Civil rights
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