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Free Download Civil disobedience : protest, justification and the law By Milligan, Tony
2013 | 179 Pages | ISBN: 1441119442 | EPUB | 1 MB
"Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence. Such principled law-breaking has been witnessed in recent years over climate change, economic strife, and the treatment of animals. Civil disobedience is examined here in the context of contemporary political activism, in the light of classic accounts by Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi to call for a broader attitude towards what civil disobedience involves. The question of violence is discussed, arguing that civil disobedience need only be aspirationally non-violent and that although some protests do not clearly constitute law-breaking they may render people liable to arrest. For example, while there may not be violence against persons, there may be property damage, as seen in raids upon animal laboratories. Such forms of militancy raise ethical and legal questions. Arguing for a less restrictive theory of civil disobedience, the book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying social movements and issues of political philosophy, social justice, and global ethics."–✅Publisher‘s website.

Free Download R. Michael Allen, "Justification and the Gospel: Understanding the Contexts and Controversies"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 080103986X | EPUB | pages: 208 | 2.1 mb
Seeking to move beyond current heated debates on justification, this accessible introduction offers a fresh, alternative approach to a central theological topic. Michael Allen locates justification within the wider context of the gospel, allowing for more thoughtful engagement with the Bible, historical theology, and the life of the church. Allen considers some of the liveliest recent debates as well as some overlooked connections within the wider orbit of Christian theology. He provides a historically informed, ecumenically minded defense of orthodox theology, analyzing what must be maintained and what should be reconfigured from the vantage point of systematic theology. The book exemplifies the practice of theological interpretation of Scripture and demonstrates justification’s relevance for ongoing issues of faith and practice.

Free Download Michael Frauchiger, "Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon "
English | ISBN: 3110738430 | 2021 | 170 pages | EPUB | 1263 KB
This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In Contractualism and Justification, Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In Improving Scanlon’s Contractualism, D. Parfit recommends revisions and extensions of Scanlon’s theory, while R. Forst suggests in Justification Fundamentalism that Scanlon may want to replace reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel raises fundamental questions concerning Moral Reality and Moral Progress, and S. Mantel offers in On How to Explain Rational Motivation a critical discussion of Scanlon’s cognitivist theory of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon’s conception of responsibility in Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis, and S. Olsaretti suggests in Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities an alternative to Scanlon’s arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon’s seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume is utterly indispensable.

Free Download Justification and Excuse in International Law: Concept and Theory of General Defences By Federica Paddeu
2019 | 608 Pages | ISBN: 1107513995 | PDF | 8 MB
The defences available to an agent accused of wrongdoing can be considered as justifications (which render acts lawful) or excuses (which shield the agent from the legal consequences of the wrongful act). This distinction is familiar to many domestic legal systems, and tracks analogous notions in moral philosophy and ordinary language. Nevertheless, it remains contested in some domestic jurisdictions where it is often argued that the distinction is purely theoretical and has no consequences in practice. In international law too the distinction has been fraught with controversy, though there are increasing calls for its recognition. This book is the first to comprehensively and thoroughly examine the distinction and its relevance to the international legal order. Combining an analysis of state practice, and historical, doctrinal and theoretical developments, the book shows that the distinction is not only possible in international law but that it is also one that would have important practical implications.

Free Download Tanja Rechnitzer, "Applying Reflective Equilibrium: Towards the Justification of a Precautionary Principle"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031043359, 3031043324 | PDF | pages: 276 | 5.0 mb
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and original contribution to questions of philosophical method and methodology. The book shows step-by-step how RE is applied, and develops a methodological framework which will be useful for everyone who wishes to use reflective equilibrium. With respect to precautionary principles, the book demonstrates how a rights-based precautionary principle can be constructed and defended.

Free Download Justification and Emancipation: The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst By Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta (editors)
2019 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0271084782 | PDF | 76 MB
This work is both an introduction to and a critical appraisal of the work of Rainer Forst, one of the most important political theorists in Germany today. Structured for classroom use, this collection of original essays engages with Forst’s extant corpus in ways that are both appreciative and critical.Forst is an original, prolific, and widely known member of the "fourth generation" of Frankfurt School theorists. His significant contributions include a Rawlsian-Habermasian conception of justice that takes seriously the dissent of citizens and moral agents; an original interpretation and analysis of the concept of toleration; and, most recently, a generative idea of "noumenal power," to which every human being has a claim by virtue of their equal standing within the moral community of all rational beings. Opening with an essay by Forst on the normative conception of progress and closing with a reply to his critics, this volume is both a primer on and a window into the latest contributions to the tradition of critical theory.In addition to the editors, the contributors include John Christman, Mattias Iser, Catherine Lu, John P. McCormick, Sarah Clark Miller, and Melissa Yates.

Free Download Blake McAllister, "Seemings and the Foundations of Justification "
English | ISBN: 1032247959 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB
All justified beliefs ultimately rest on attitudes that are immediately justified. This book illuminates the nature of immediate justification and the states that provide it. Simply put, immediate justification arises from how things appear to us―from all and only our "seemings."

Free Download Wittgenstein on Rules: Justification, Grammar, and Agreement by James R. Shaw
2023 | ISBN: 0197609988 | English | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
James R. Shaw offers a new ‘bipartite’ reading of Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule-following and the foundations of semantics in his seminal Philosophical Investigations. On this reading, Wittgenstein’s remarks are split between two logically distinct projects marked by different guiding questions, presuppositions, and methodologies. It shows how the attribution of this thoroughgoing bipartite structure resolves a number of internal tensions in the text and reveals Wittgenstein’s controversial remarks on human agreement to exhibit a surprising attentiveness to, and plausible treatment of, a blurring of the semantics/metasemantics distinction arising in Wittgenstein’s treatment of foundational semantic questions. Shaw then turns to an extended engagement with "Kripkensteinean" meaning skepticism. While on the reading offered, Wittgenstein never countenanced meaning skepticism, his work in the foundations of semantics gives us the resources to develop an unusual naive reply to the skeptic not yet explored in literature. Shaw argues that the Wittgensteinean reply is simple, effective, generalizable, and theoretically `light-weight’, so that a theorist of almost any stripe could in principle take it up.