VOLUME 4(2) • 2012
INVENTING HUMAN RIGHTS: A SOCIAL THEORY OF RIGHT AND THE JURIDICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SUBJECT
ABSTRACT. Scholars across the humanities and social sciences talk of the “cosmopolitan turn” and in the field of educational philosophy the cosmopolitan ideal has been appealed to as a form of critical global awareness or the basis of global citizenship education. These accounts most often hinge on ..
DEVELOPING A REGIONAL INTERFAITH AND INTERCULTURAL NETWORK IN MELBOURNE’S NORTHERN SUBURBS
ABSTRACT. By examining the experience of an innovative and ambitious initiative in the evolution of the interfaith movement in Australia, this article analyses three contested themes: (1) how to connect religion more closely with culture, thereby placing interfaith relations within the context of in..
A CRITICAL NOTE ON “ANIMAL RIGHTS”
ABSTRACT. Any careful observation of the rest of nature will make it evident that applying moral criteria to how animals live is in error ‒ what philosophers have called a “category mistake.” And at the same time and for similar reasons, ascribing rights to animals is also misguided, just as would b..