http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5180 Monographica I: Etica di Heidegger - Monographica II: Prelinguistic practice, social ontology, semantics Wed, 22 May 2013 18:14:51 GMT 2013-05-22T18:14:51Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5227 Title: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics Type: Fascicolo rivista Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5227 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5226 Title: Human Rights: A Modest Proposal Authors: Byron, Michael Abstract: Human rights have become an enormously useful tool in our time, and this for a variety of reasons. Useful, yes: but are rights real? I propose first to examine the most significant philosophical attempts to justify human rights. A universally justified conception of rights I call ‘robust,’ since a successful rational justification would fully underwrite the real existence of rights. Alas, we have no such justification; the second part of my remarks sketches devastating objections to each proposed justification. But all is not lost for rights: a new pragmatic justification for rights talk is available, one that is modest. On the modest view rights are real; but then we should like to know whether rights are as useful as they are on the robust view. Not as useful, no; but a Type: Articolo Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5226 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5225 Title: Crash and Carry: Financial Intermediaries, the Intertemporal-Carry Trade, and Austrian Business Cycles Authors: Barnett II, William; Block, Walter E. Abstract: Barnett and Block (2008) establish that not only are fractional reserve demand deposits fraudulent and create an Austrian Business Cycle (ABC), but that a certain type of mismatching between time deposits and the period for which the depository institution relends the deposited funds (banks or other financial intermediaries “borrowing short and lending long”) are also contrary to libertarian law. The question we address in the present paper is whether or not this type of disconnect between the period for which the ultimate lender committed funds and the ultimate borrower gained possession thereof also necessarily start an Austrian Business Cycle. Even though this does not constitute an increase in the stock of money, we answer in the affirmative. Type: Articolo Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5225 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5224 Title: Euthanasia: Some Critical Remarks Authors: Ayodele, Adejumobi Olatidoye Abstract: Euthanasia is generally regarded as killing in order to put an end to the unrelieved pain and suffering of a patient. Most terminal diseases are often associated with unrelieved pain and suffering, as a result advocates of euthanasia have argued for the legalization of euthanasia on the ground of compassion for the patients’ suffering. However advancement in medicine has made it possible for modern medicine to reduce pain and suffering to the barest minimum. The questions that arise from this are, given the advancement in medicine; is there any necessity for euthanasia? Is the relief of pain the same as the relief of suffering? Do the physiological treatment of pain and its symptoms treat the psychological and emotional effect of pain and suffering? This paper shall attempt to answer these questions and argue that though issues and fears raised by the anti-euthanasia movements are very legitimate, the problems are resolvable by a well regulated medical system. I will attempt to explain what a well regulated system entails and how it can take care of the concerns of the anti euthanasia movement. Type: Articolo Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/5224 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z