VOLUME 4(2) • 2012
DEMOCRATIC STABILITY, SOCIAL CHANGE PROCESSES, AND THE RULE OF LAW
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring the modern law of nations, the importance of cities and city regions in the world economy, and important economic and political components of the world system. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of the practic..
KANT AND MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on Kant’s theory of the judgment of taste, his conception of aesthetic judgment, his claims for the apriority of mathematics, and his concept of the sublime. The paper generates insights about Kant’s conception of fi..
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. The current study extends past research by elucidating the place of women in Spinoza’s democracy, Spinoza’s philosophy concerning women’s capacity for political participation, and his claims about women’s “natural” disempowerment. Castoriadis points out that the societal institution determ..
MORAL CONFLICT, RELIGION, AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. Castoriadis points out that the societal institution determines, in each instance, what is or is not real for that society. Each society contains a system for interpreting the world, is a system for interpreting the world, and is the creation of a world that applies to it, its own world (i..
THE IMPORTANCE OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN SHAPING INDIVIDUALS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM
ABSTRACT. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse context for understanding the psychology of procedural justice, the relationship between emotions and procedural justice, the effects of the fairness of procedures used by legal authorities, and procedural factors that may hav..
THE SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF URBAN VIOLENCE
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the deliberate destruction of both symbolic and mundane elements of the built environment, the magnitude of the crime decline in New York, and the new landscapes of fear established in the wake of 9/11. The paper generates insights ab..
URBANIZATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION IN EUROPE
ABSTRACT. The paper generates insights about the effect of life expectancy on population growth, the demographic effects of international migration on populations, the role of the demographic transition, and the causal role of life expectancy on income growth. I am specifically interested in how pre..
USERS AS PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING JOURNALISM: THE ENHANCED COMMUNICATIVE POWER OF NETWORKED INDIVIDUALS
ABSTRACT. The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the perception of users as members of a peer community, today’s fragmented and rapidly changing media environment, the integration of blogging and other forms of user-generated content into journalism, and the adoption of audience par..
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the social and demographic contexts of Neolithic lifeways, the interrelationships between settlement practices and demographic increases, the change in family strategies that characterizes the demographic transition, and the globa..
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MARITIME LAW
ABSTRACT. This study is grounded in the considerable body of scholarship examining the enforcement powers granted to coastal states to protect their specific interests in fishing and the marine environment, pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, aspects of the framework of the law of the sea that ..
HUME ON THE AESTHETIC RELEVANCE OF REASON
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring the role of sympathy in Hume’s aesthetic theory, his moral philosophy as naturalistic self-governance, his elaboration of aesthetic judging, and the interposition of sympathy in Hume’s account of beauty. This study is grounded in the ..
THE IDEA OF HUMAN DIGNITY
ABSTRACT. Simon stresses that, according to Rosenzweig, process can be understood as objective or thing-like. To redeem means to vitalize. The less the individual, the more the self. Heidegger constructs an “in-the-world” conceptual complex, where the human as Da-sein is thoroughly bound up with its..