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Mitigation Duties
To avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, drastic mitigation measures have become necessary. But who should do what and...
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Mitigation Duties
To avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, drastic mitigation measures have become necessary. But who should do what and...
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Beyond Acts and Omissions — Distinguishing Positive and Negative Duties at the European Court of Human Rights
The article examines methods of distinguishing positive and negative duties within the provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights as...
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Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor
Many corporations are large, powerful, and wealthy. There are massive shortfalls of global justice, with hundreds of millions of people in the world...
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Duties—The Building Blocks of Right
While one is born into this world with rights, it is a reminder that neither the constitutions of the world nor the governments across the globe are...
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Wild Animals and Duties of Assistance
Is there a moral requirement to assist wild animals suffering due to natural causes? According to the laissez-faire intuition , although we may have special...
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Chapter 13: Recognizing Environmental Duties
This chapter further examines the necessary and useful distinctions between perfect and imperfect duties. In this context, it introduces and examines...
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Patent and Pandemic: Exploring Duties, Obligations and Responsibilities
Patents are based on a delicate policy to promote technological progress by incentivising the inventor and enabling others to participate in the...
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Duties of Assistance and the Criminal/Civil Distinction
This Chapter analyzes the possible uses of the three interpretations of equal access to justice discussed in Chap. 3...
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Chapter 3: The Categorical Imperative Process and Moral Duties
Enlightenment philosophy (seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy) led to democratic revolutions and ultimately commercial and economic...
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Facilitating the Convergence of Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties Through the Gandhian Interpretation of ‘Dharm’
The distinctive character of the Indian Constitution is its affirmation in the balance of rights and duties. Written on the touchstone of the Indian...
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Resistance and Neighborly Aid
This chapter explores how individuals in the Holocaust become the victims of genocide and in what ways resistance has been mounted against the...
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Rectification Versus Aid: Why the State Owes More to Those it Wrongfully Harms
Are the state’s obligations to victims of its own wrongdoing greater than to persons who have suffered from bad luck? Many people endorse an...
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Liberal Individualism and Public Health: Case Study of Coronavirus Pandemic in Gandhian Duties’ Context
Human civilization and the development process of humanity seems to have gone wrong, is the real reflection of the coronavirus pandemic. An enemy...
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A Kantian Moral Response to Poverty
Poverty is a global problem that is not only about material deprivation, but also a lack of agency and power. A Kantian response, with its focus on...
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Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory Ends
I propose a novel way to understand the stringency of Kant’s conception of beneficence. This novel understanding can ground our intuition that we do...
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Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status
In 2017, Michael Nair-Collins formulated his Transitivity Argument which claimed that brain-dead patients are alive according to a concept that...
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Needs to address clinicians’ moral distress in treating unvaccinated COVID-19 patients
BackgroundMoral dilemmas have arisen concerning whether physicians and other providers should treat patients who have declined COVID vaccination and...