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A Blessing or a Curse: An Exploration of Zimbabwe’s Plight in the Global Village
International communication has promoted interaction and integration among various people, companies and governments of different continents, a...
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The Evolution of Child Marriage as a Human Rights Concern
The elimination of child marriage is a goal that ranks high on the agendas of civil society organizations, national governments, and multilateral...
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Motivational Facts, Legitimacy, and the Justification of Political Ideals
Should facts about motivation play a role in the justification of political ideals? Many theorists argue that political ideals should be tailored to...
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Prison agriculture in the United States: racial capitalism and the disciplinary matrix of exploitation and rehabilitation
The United States prison system, the largest in the world, operates through both exploitative and rehabilitative modes of discipline. To gain...
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The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)
I argue that monarchies, in any possible form (absolute or constitutional), should be abolished once and for all. This is because of the deeply...
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Politics, power, and bureaucracy through the lens of the conceptological approach: reflections on Viktor P. Makarenko, Sobranie sochineniy v 5 tomakh [Collected Works in 5 vols.]. Rostov-na-Donu; Taganrog: Izdatel’stvo Yuzhnogo Federal’nogo Universiteta, 2021
Historical experience shows that politics, despite all its shortcomings, is the best tool created by people to organize the common life of large...
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“Command Me, Confessor”: Violence, Power, and Ethics Within Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Series
The late Terry Goodkind consistently claimed that his sprawling fantasy series The Sword of Truth was more than ‘mere’ fantasy, arguing that his work...
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Precis of A Better Ape
A Better Ape covers the evolution of morality from the birth of our ape family through the evolution of human species and all the way up to the...
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Holding Retail Corporations Accountable for Food Waste: A Due Diligence Framework Informed by Business and Human Rights Principles
Retail corporations orchestrate much of what happens in today’s food supply chains. From setting sky-high cosmetic standards for fresh produce to...
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The Impermissibility of Execution
This chapter offers a proceduralist argument against capital punishment. More specifically, it contends that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes...
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Assessing the impacts of EU agricultural policies on the sustainability of the livestock sector: a review of the recent literature
How do agricultural policies in the EU need to change to increase the sustainability of livestock production, and what measures could encourage...
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IPS Implications of IIE(θ(ε))-Model in Specifics of the Socio-economic Theory
The specific problem examined here is the theory underlying abolition of interest rate and its ethical, multiplier, stabilization, and wellbeing...
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Madhyamaka Metaethics
This paper develops two novel views that help solve the ‘now what’ problem for moral error theorists concerning what they should do with morality...
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Marx on the State, Proletarian Dictatorship and Commune
This chapter concerns what Marx had to say concerning hitherto existing forms of the state and what might happen to the state under socialism in...
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Till They Felt a Big Stick About Their Heads: The Epistemic Justice of John Brown’s Resistance Violence
My position that resistance violence represents politically vulnerable people resisting their dehumanization by establishing their dignity through...
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Belling the Cat
I close the book by considering some of the major obstacles to implementing drug policy reforms and how they might be overcome. Some reforms of drug...
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Conclusion
This chapter summarises the book and argues that we have considered three theories: Modernisation, Marxian theory and Hermeneutics in understanding...
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The Debate on Biotechnology and Genetic Therapy
This chapter discusses some of the ethical dilemmas around genetic engineering. First, it provides a brief review of the historical and scientific...
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African Scarification and Slavery: From Anthropology to Allegory
Senegalese author and director Ousmane Sembène, as a socialist and contributor to the pervasive legacy of social realism in African literate,...