Social Justice and the Metaphor of Gaps

"The doctrine of social justice is a rather curious name for the project of equalising the access of all citizens to whatever is valuable. It is a curious name because justice traditionally means that individuals have rights to something they are entitled to, and this is commonly defined in terms of custom and law, though justice may also be used as a moral judgement based on a less definite kind of value. Social justice however argues injustice on the mere fact of inequality. To be human is to deserve to enjoy whatever anyone else enjoys. The element of desert has dropped out, though some qualifications based on economic functionality may often be recognised. A great deal of modern political philosophy consists in variations on this theme."(...

Ronald Reagan a wyzwania epoki

Z wprowadzenia: "Śmierć Ronalda Reagana w czerwcu 2004 r. zamknęła znaczącą epokę w dziejach Europy i świata. Reagan symbolizował pokolenie polityków, którym przyszło działać w czasach szybkiej dekompozycji dwóch, wydawałoby się niepodważalnych pewników politycznych dominujących po drugiej wojnie światowej w świecie zachodnim. Z polityków tych był tym, który przyczynił się w olbrzymiej mierze do podważenia obu z nich."(...

Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism*

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112280/1/j.1467-9558.2011.01388.x.pd

Politik: sebuah pengantar singkat

168 halaman : 20 c

Politik : sebuah pengantar singkat

168 halaman : 20 c

The new Constitutionalism. by Kenneth Minogue

We should be wary of moves to try to remove political objectives from the continuing process of debate and decision-making and entrench them in constitutions

How political idealism threatens our civilisation

Professor Kenneth Minogue, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics speaks about the way in which Enlightenment thinkers characterised the world as an imperfect society needing reform by political ideolgy. This presentation took place at the Centre for Independent Studies on 29 October 2009, and included a response by CIS research fellow, Oliver Hartwich.    How Political Idealism Threatens Our Civilisation from Centre for Independent Studies on Vimeo