Handbook Political Theory.pdf

through European Union Directives, for example, have broken new ground, yet these are still a long way from being able to contro ...

conventionally constructed) opportunities for withdrawal are a constitutive element of a person’s freedom. Two d iVerent aspects ...

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which model of democracy might correlate with the freedom-oriented con- cept of privacy is crucial. Moreover, recent conXicts co ...

Cornell,D. 1995 .The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography and Sexual Har- assment. London: Routledge. Elshtain,J.B. 1981 .Pub ...

Mackenzie, C. and Stoljar, N. (eds.) 2000 .Relational Autonomy: Feminist Per- spectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self ...

Sennett,R. 2002 .The Fall of Public Man. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Thomson,J.J. 1974. The right to privacy.Philosophy and Public A ...

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implies the coercive taking of body parts (Narveson 1983 ; Nozick 1974 ), proponents of the former typically reply that we shoul ...

challenged, in favor of conferring on individuals the right to control what happens to their body, before and after death. Howev ...

Two objections are standardly leveled at the foregoing argument, namely that individuals, whether alive or dead, should be treat ...

scope of justice: as we shall see, it leads us to consider the possibility that justice is a property of the relationship betwee ...

will still be down to the brute luck of having parents who made, or failed to make, certain choices. Moreover, we already know t ...

impose on us a number of burdens to which we clearly have not consented. The least they can do, then, is to equip us to cope wit ...

children lack exposure to the arts because of their parents’ poverty, why not, then, object to the fact that children whose pare ...

ThisWrst point, of course, does not address the claim, most often made by radical deaf activists, that what we regard as a disab ...

worries as groundless. Yet, it would be unwise to stop using and developing genetic procedures for that reason—just as it would ...

not under a duty to provide sustenance to her unborn child (Thomson 1971 ). Clearly Thomson is not alone in so thinking: by and ...

Anne gets pregnant through consensual sex. If she carries her fetus to term, she will incur serious damage to her health. Be ...

subject herself to a medical procedure for the sake of her fetus might seem impossibly harsh. So, let us distinguish three possi ...