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Formal logic on rightfulness
Is there a kind of logic that could easily formulate this kind of statement: X has the right to do Y?
Or more generally: An object that has the property X (or in a set X) could also choose to have ...
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Is it my right to choose to violate the law?
Is it my right to choose not to follow the law, provided I accept to bear the consequences?
Or should I be forced to follow it at all times?
The point is not whether it's right to violate the law ...
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Is it ever acceptable to go by the principle of "guilty until proven innocent"?
I have been following the news about the current US administration reversing the Obama administration's policies on campus sexual assault.
The two opposing positions can be summed as following:
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What is the relation of natural rights to human rights ? [closed]
Assuming that there are natural rights and human rights, are they co-extensive - so that to have (all) natural rights is to have (all) human rights and vice versa? Is there any difference in their ...
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German philosophers on (french) revolution
I'm reading an essay written by the Italian philosopher Remo Bodei, where he examines the thoughts of some German philosopher on the french revolution and revolutions in general.
According to him, ...
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If a lawyer that is representing a defendant finds that his client is guilty, how is he supposed to act?
If a lawyer that is representing a defendant finds that his client is guilty, how is he supposed to act?
Can a lawyer lie or pretend he doesn't know something? Should or could he, morally, try to win ...
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Should governments have the power to limit the citizen's rights during wartime?
Should the government be allowed to limit their citizens rights during wartime or other hard times that the country is going through? What if it was an apocalyptic event that everyone knew they would ...
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Must a self-legislating citizenry guarantee itself freedom of speech?
Specifically I want to know whether a constitution that is authored by its own citizens must contain a guarantee of free expression. And why? The intent is to retain the capacity of self-legislation ...
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How do philosophers distinguish between rights that beg legislation vs. those that not?
I have over the years seen podcasts or iTunes lectures from Michael Sandel's justice lectures at Harvard. He asks many profound questions. The problem I have is that most of them seem to be based ...
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Are there two fundamental views of rights?
I once saw a cartoon / infographic that attempted to explain the differences between liberals and conservatives. It had plenty of details that were subjective questions or might be said to be due to ...
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Can one ask for more than they deserve?
I would appreciate if answers can cite the individuals or religious-paradigm that derive the answer.
The concept of being 'deserving' suggested an availability, if not a right, to something. '...
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Violation of everyday rights or "whose right to what did I violate today?"
The idea of rights seems to be strongly, if not inextricably, connected to the idea of duties. As far as I remember in philosophy of law this is referred to as "reciprocity". If I must do something, ...
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