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Adaptation Duties
This chapter addresses an under investigated issue of climate ethics: the duty of adaptation, i.e., a standard of moral behavior required of duty...
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Adaptation Duties
This chapter addresses an under investigated issue of climate ethics: the duty of adaptation, i.e., a standard of moral behavior required of duty...
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Beneficence, Non-Identity, and Responsibility: How Identity-Affecting Interventions in Nature can Generate Secondary Moral Duties
In chapter 3 of Wild Animal Ethics Johannsen argues for a collective obligation based on beneficence to intervene in nature in order to reduce 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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Autonomised harming
This paper sketches elements of a theory of the ethics of autonomised harming: the phenomenon of delegating decisions about whether and whom to harm...
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Compensating beneficiaries
This paper illuminates a typically obscured ground for rectificatory obligations: harms justified as ‘lesser evils.’ Lesser-evil harms are not the...
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Redistributive wars
Can the global poor wage a just redistributive war against the global rich? The moral norms governing the use of force are usually considered to be...
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What Libertarians (Should) Think About Inheritance Taxation
Recently, there has been an effort to make libertarianism compatible with a redistributive inheritance tax: When the tax is levied, the taxpayer in...
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What Structural Injustice Theory Leaves Out
Alasia Nuti’s recent book Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress puts forward a compelling vision of...
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Compensation and Overcoming of Historical Injustice
On the basis of Waldron’s supersession thesis, this article discusses the historical injustice argument and contends that in order to evaluate moral...
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Unjust History and Its New Reproduction—A Reply to My Critics
Demands calling for reparations for historical injustices—injustices whose original victims and perpetrators are now dead—constitute an important...
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A Lockean Theory of Climate Justice for Food Security
This paper argues that the Lockean proviso can be utilized as a relevant principle of justice for food security under global climate change. Since...
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The Chinese Frontiers of Data Protection: The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
With the rise of the Internet, data have become one of the most valuable economic assets and, as a consequence, they have received special attention...
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Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Kṛṣṇa’s Instruction in the Bhagavad Gītā
The Bhagavad Gītā is often read as a classic portrayal of necessary doubt as the vehicle of mature faith, and as such, it is valued in our times. By...
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Leonard Harris’s Insurrectionist “Challenge” to Pragmatism
Leonard Harris’s work on Alain Locke and insurrectionism are invaluable contributions to American philosophy, but for some reason his...
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Party Building: Strengthening the Construction of a Marxist Party
The final case study concerns the leadership of the Communist Party, with a focus on grassroots Party building. The local Party branch is the...
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The Origin of Chinese Civilization and the History of the Relationship with Confucianism and Daoism
The development of the relationship among Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, from their emergence to their gradual interplay and harmonious...