The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. The articles in this collection take up a tension between the wide political use of human rights claims…
Jeremy Bentham’s writings on Australia, new authoritative editions of which are now published in a volume entitled Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia1 in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, have had a profound and enduring influence across a number of fields. For instance, according to the historian John Gascoigne, s…
Furthermore, within the context of action regulation theory, a suitable concept canbe identified to conceptualize sovereignty with respect to individuals in work settings.A core meaning of sovereignty – across all domains as described above (Couture and Toupin 2019) – deals withcontrol, in the sense of individuals – or groups, movements,corporations, states – having control over their e…
Evolusi ialah salah satu gagasan ilmiah yg paling sering disalahgunakan & disalah mengerti. Baik profesional maupun awam, sering keliru memahai teori ini kendati sudah silam hampir dua abad. Kesulitan itu dipahami & ditangkap oleh Ernst Mayr sehingga ia menulis buku ini. Ernst Mayr ialah salah seorang begawan biologi yg ikut mengawinkan teori evolusi Darwin & genetika Mendel. Ia dianggap sebaga…