VOLUME 5(1) • 2006
DWORKIN'S THEORY OF LAW AS INTEGRITY: LEGAL UNDERSTANDING AS AN INTERPRETIVE ACTIVITY
ABSTRACT. Dworkin argues that political and legal concepts have a deep structure that determines what these terms really mean. Dworkin identifies legal understanding with judicial methods of rational reconstruction, explaining the internal experience of judging and revealing the ideals that lie behi..
AN ANALYSIS OF MONETARY POLICY RULES
ABSTRACT. Raising interest rates modestly as asset prices rise above what are estimated to be warranted levels can reduce the effects of asset-price bubbles on output and inflation, thereby enhancing macroeconomic stability. A bank's asset portofolio consisting of loans to nonbanks, interbank loans,..
THE GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURE, INTERNATIONAL MARKETING, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WORLD SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Held remarks that it is easy to mistake an account of the globalization of communications with an account of the globalization of culture. According to Tomlinson, the idea of deterritorialization grasps the way in which events outside of our immediate localities are increasingly consequent..
CAPITALISM AND FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
ABSTRACT. Thirkell-White depicts an international organization created, defined and experiencing its formative years in an era quite different from the current; it is struggling to make sense of its formal mandate in the context of an increasingly politicized and diverse development agenda, brought ..
UNIVERSAL NORMS, MORAL MINIMALISM, AND SOCIAL ORDER
ABSTRACT. Hetcher writes that norms are best conceived as patterns of behaviour instantiated in a group, and distinguishes between three kinds of norms: sanction-driven, coordination, and epistemic norms. Raz maps the structure of agents' practical reason thinking of norms as one of the elements of ..
KANT, MORALITY, AND AUTONOMY
ABSTRACT. The driving force is the moral feeling and it is rooted in reason (it logically depends on the recognition and acceptance of moral requirements). Moral requirements represent actions that realize moral ends the value of which does not depend on whether a specific individual appreciates and..
THE ROLE OF COHERENCE IN LEGAL REASONING
ABSTRACT. A complete legal theory does not merely identify the rules of a legal system, but also interprets and evaluates them. Hart distinguishes the "external" from the "internal" points of view with regard to how the rules of a legal system may be described or evaluated. Dworkin asserts that the ..
DEMOCRACY, FORCE OF LAW, AND WELL-BEING
ABSTRACT. Broome compares the values of distribution of well-being for different groups of the same size and then groups of different sizes. Lafort's thinking about modern democracy is not a rehearsal of abstract ideas but rather an attempt to evoke an experience of democracy (Flynn). In applying Ra..
LEGALLY BINDING AND EXTRA-LEGAL REFERENCES TO MORALITY MORALITY
ABSTRACT. Soper derives moral requirements on legal validity from a theory of the nature of law. Dworhin holds if we look closely at courts' reasoning, we will often find them relying on moral judgment; the law is nothing more or less than any valid reason for a court's decision (morality is part of..
DOSSO DOSSI'S JUPITER, MERCURY, AND VIRTUE – A SAMPLE OF GENRE ANALYSIS (II)
ABSTRACT. Compositional canons tend to place the most important thing/ character in the focal point and, probably, the center of a painting would be such a position. A basic device the discourse about art deals with is the formal analysis, viewed both as a genre with its own purposes and structure, ..
QUINE, MEANING, AND THE INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION
ABSTRACT. Quine claims that sentential meaning is indeterminate (there is nothing determinate in the meaning of the original sentence for the translations to approximate to). Translation should match sentences with approximately identical stimulus meanings. Even if we adopt a fully realistic attitud..
THE PURSUIT OF MEANING AND LINGUISTIC PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. Frege notes that in the case of a concept we can call the unsaturatedness its predictive nature. Quine writes that we can simplify grammar and logic by minimizing the number of our grammatical categories and ma-ximizing their size. Davidson follows Quine in refusing to accept a distinction..