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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Rawls.
6. The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Nurses : Perspectives from the Philippines
Sammanfattning : The dissertation "The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreement for Global Nurses - Perspectives from the Philippines" is written in the research area of applied ethics and examines ethical aspects of labor migration in the specific area of healthcare, with the Philippines as an example. The central questions for the dissertation are the ethical issues of nurse migration in the Philippine context. LÄS MER
7. Judgements in Equilibrium? : An Ethical Analysis of Environmental Impacts Assessment
Sammanfattning : Since the end of the 1960s the questions of what duties current generations owe towards future generations and what duties human beings owe towards natural entities have been increasingly discussed within ethics. A new subdiscipline - environmental ethics - has emerged that especially focuses on these moral issues. LÄS MER
8. Global Warming and Our Natural Duties of Justice : A cosmopolitan political conception of justice
Sammanfattning : Compelling research in international relations and international political economy on global warming suggests that one part of any meaningful effort to radically reverse current trends of increasing green house gas (GHG) emissions is shared policies among states that generate costs for such emissions in many if not most of the world’s regions. Effectively employing such policies involves gaining much more extensive global commitments and developing much stronger compliance mechanism than those currently found in the Kyoto Protocol. LÄS MER
9. Just Distribution : Rawlsian Liberalism and the Politics of Basic Income
Sammanfattning : Should liberal egalitarians endorse the idea of an unconditional basic income for all? This thesis defends a politics of unconditional universalism, offering a liberty-respecting and non-perfectionist basis for maximin-guided policies. The argument starts off from a Rawlsian justification of basic income in the context of institutional ideal theory. LÄS MER
10. Reconceiving Public Reason : Neutrality, Civility, and the Self-Defeat Objection
Sammanfattning : How should we live together? The question is at the heart of social ethics and it is an as urgent political question as ever. In this thesis, one particularly attractive reply to this central issue is analysed—John Rawls’s theory of public reason, and three different objections that have been put against it. LÄS MER
