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Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World
Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World is a collaboration between scholars working on diverse areas and periods of ancient Greco-Roman culture. The volume addresses literary and material evidence for ancient notions of valuing (or disvaluing) the deep past.
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Respect and the Basis of Equality
In what sense are persons equal, such that it is appropriate to treat them as equals? This difficult question has been strangely neglected by political philosophers. A plausible answer can be found by adopting a particular interpretation of the idea of respect. Central to this interpretation is the thought that in order to respect persons we need to treat them as ‘opaque', paying attention only to their outward features as agents. This proposed basis of equality has important implications for the currency of egalitarian justice, ruling out a number of theequalizandafavored by contemporary egalitarians.
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Do I Make a Difference?
Kagan notes that it is often suggested that consequentialism still permits too much, failing to condemn acts that intuitively it ought to condemn. In one important class of cases of this sort, someone is harmed for the sake of promoting the greater overall good. Here the act is wrong even though the results are good overall. Such cases show that something else matters in morality besides results. But precisely for this reason, cases like this--cases that arouse deontological qualms--may not particularly trouble the consequentialist at all. For the consequentialist is indeed concerned solely with the production of the best possible results, and in cases of this sort, obviously enough, conformity to the consequentialist principle does result in the best outcome.
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Nations, States, and Territory
Nationalists hold that the state derives its territorial rights from the prior claim of a cultural nation to territory. This article develops an alternative account: the legitimate state theory. This view holds that a state has rights to territory if it meets the following four conditions: (a) it effectively implements a system of law regulating property in that territory; (b) its subjects have a legitimate claim to occupy the territory; (c) the state’s system of law “rules in the name of the people,” by protecting basic rights and providing for political participation; and (d) the state is not a usurper.
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