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Author |
: Ajay Skaria |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 547 |
Release |
: 2016-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452949802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452949808 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unconditional Equality by : Ajay Skaria
Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on some form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an “equality of sword”—profoundly violent not only because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized) but also because those included lose the power to love (which requires the surrender of autonomy or, more broadly, sovereignty). Gandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, there can be “no politics without religion.” This religion involves self-surrender, a freely offered surrender of autonomy and everyday sovereignty. For Gandhi, the “religion that stays in all religions” is satyagraha—the agraha (insistence) on or of satya (being or truth). Ajay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things. This cannot be understood in terms of sovereignty: it must be an equality of the minor.
Author |
: Anne Phillips |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2023-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691226163 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691226164 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unconditional Equals by : Anne Phillips
Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature” but has to be for all For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to write of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite what we commonly tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations continue today. In Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne Phillips challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into conditions and ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of justification, she calls instead for a genuinely unconditional equality. Drawing on political, feminist, and postcolonial theory, Unconditional Equals argues that we should understand equality not as something grounded in shared characteristics but as something people enact when they refuse to be considered inferiors. At a time when the supposedly shared belief in human equality is so patently not shared, the book makes a powerful case for seeing equality as a commitment we make to ourselves and others, and a claim we make on others when they deny us our status as equals.
Author |
: Aishwary Kumar |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2015-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804794268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080479426X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Equality by : Aishwary Kumar
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As such, they are rarely studied together. This book reassesses their complex relationship, focusing on their shared commitment to equality and justice, which for them was inseparable from anticolonial struggles for sovereignty. Both men inherited the concept of equality from Western humanism, but their ideas mark a radical turn in humanist conceptions of politics. This study recovers the philosophical foundations of their thought in Indian and Western traditions, religious and secular alike. Attending to moments of difficulty in their conceptions of justice and their languages of nonviolence, it probes the nature of risk that radical democracy's desire for inclusion opens within modern political thought. In excavating Ambedkar and Gandhi's intellectual kinship, Radical Equality allows them to shed light on each other, even as it places them within a global constellation of moral and political visions. The story of their struggle against inequality, violence, and empire thus transcends national boundaries and unfolds within a universal history of citizenship and dissent.
Author |
: Malgorzata Wasek-Wiaderek (Auteur) |
Publisher |
: Leuven University Press |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9058670902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789058670908 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Principle of "equality of Arms" in Criminal Procedure Under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Its Functions in Criminal Justice of Selected European Countries by : Malgorzata Wasek-Wiaderek (Auteur)
The paper deals with one of the significant aspect of fairness in criminal cases, the concept of "equality of arms". The considerations focus initially on the analysis of the scope and meaning of the notion of "equality of arms" in the case-law of the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The author reviewed the Strasbourg case-law on the concept of "equality of arms" in the context of three different but connected procedural topics: equality between the parties in the institutional framework of criminal proceedings, "equality of arms" principle in the evidentiary proceedings in general and "equality of arms" under Article 6 of the Convention in the jurisprudence concerning criminal trials involving anonymous witnesses. Subsequent chapters of the paper survey the application of this notion to different models of criminal procedure, namely to the common law system (of which England is a good example) and to the model of procedure adopted in the countries of Continental Europe (e.g. Germany and Poland). The analysis does not provide for a comprehensive treatment of all national regulations concerning the issue of equality between the parties in a criminal process. Its objective is rather to emphasise the general approach to the principle of "equality of arms" in different models of criminal justice. The final chapter of the paper focuses on the issue of the possible convergence of different models of criminal procedure adopted in Europe with the one model based on the standards and principles emerged form the jurisprudence of the organs of the Convention.
Author |
: Raffael N Fasel |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2024-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198907428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198907427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis More Equal Than Others by : Raffael N Fasel
Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the rights that have so far been reserved to human beings. This development has raised fundamental questions about the nature of legal rights, and who should have them. More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals provides a sustained analysis of the fundamental rights of human and nonhuman animals to explore the issue of whether conferring fundamental legal rights to animals would undermine the equal status and rights of humans. Raffael N Fasel proposes an unorthodox but practical solution to this issue: the Species Membership Approach (SMA). According to the SMA, legal rights and similar entitlements should be granted to animals based on the species to which they belong, not their individual capacities. By pioneering an approach that focuses on species membership rather than individual capacities, the author demonstrates how fundamental legal rights can be extended to nonhuman animals without threatening the status and equal rights of humans. This book examines the antithetical nature of the human rights and animal rights conceptions that have so far dominated the debate and demonstrates how a middle ground can be reached between these opposing conceptions. Informed by the forgotten history of animal and human rights in the French Enlightenment, More Equal Than Others radically reimagines the spectrum of fundamental rights conceptions.
Author |
: Ute Gerhard |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813529050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813529059 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Women's Equality by : Ute Gerhard
Gerhard (sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany) examines equality as a principle and practice of law in history, and legal theory from a feminist perspective. She reviews the history of the women's movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on Germany, and examines three major legal issues: women's rights in the public sphere, women's legal capacities in private law, and women's human rights. This work was first published in German in 1990 (C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung); this American edition, somewhat revised, was translated by Allison Brown and Belinder Cooper and includes a new foreword. c. Book News Inc.
Author |
: Anne Alstott |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2020-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789602050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178960205X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Redesigning Distribution by : Anne Alstott
Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright. Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book explores two proposals, unconditional basic income and stakeholder grants, that attempt just that. In a system of basic income, as elaborated by Philippe van Parijs, all citizens are given a monthly stipend sufficient to provide them with a no-frills but adequate standard of living. This monthly income is universal rather than means-tested, and it is unconditional - receiving the basic income does not depend upon performing any labor services or satisfying other conditions. It affirms the idea that as a matter of basic rights, no one should live in poverty in an affluent society. In a system of stakeholder grants, as discussed by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, all citizens upon reaching the age of early adulthood receive a substantial one-time lump-sum grant sufficiently large so that all young adults would be significant wealth holders. Ackerman and Alstott propose that this grant be in the vicinity of $80,000 and be financed by an annual wealth tax of roughly 2 percent. A system of stakeholder grants, they argue, "expresses a fundamental responsibility: every American has an obligation to contribute to a fair starting point for all."
Author |
: Jean-Pierre Jouannaud |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2011-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783642253799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3642253792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Certified Programs and Proofs by : Jean-Pierre Jouannaud
This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the First International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, CPP 2011, held in Kenting, Taiwan, in December 2011. The 24 revised regular papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on logic and types, certificates, formalization, proof assistants, teaching, programming languages, hardware certification, miscellaneous, and proof perls.
Author |
: John Collwyn Rees |
Publisher |
: London : Pall Mall Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015002727793 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Equality by : John Collwyn Rees
Author |
: Samantha Standish |
Publisher |
: Samantha Standish |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
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: |
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: |
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: |
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: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis You're Equal by : Samantha Standish
ARE YOU EQUAL? A former attorney, Samantha Standish, discovered the answer to this question when she woke up one morning not attached to her body. Her findings became the book, “You’re Equal.” “You’re Equal” is a unique perspective on equality because it’s not political, philosophical, or religious. The book is a description and interpretation of how equality works as a mechanic in the construction of reality. “Being out of body was like a physics field trip where I got to experience the structure of reality for a short while,” says Standish. “Imagine living the properties of an electromagnetic field. That was what it was like.” Standish returned from that experience with the idea that the energy that composes matter exists in paradoxical, undivided states and that this had significance for humans because it meant that nothing was divided. To Standish, everyone was equal because it wasn’t possible to eliminate, separate, or leave out anything. “You’re Equal” is a balm to the soul and a must read for anyone that wants to understand the mechanics of equality from the ground up.