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philosophy of postcolonial settler societies “marked by the death and/or dispossession of their original inhabitants.”2 In his fifth book, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene,3 Duke Law Professor ... the environment, Purdy finds an inextricable link between environmental imagination and political expression.11 He then classifies the evolution of American attitudes towards nature into four categories
in levels of timber harvesting, generating intense political controversy. For a definitive account of the Northwest's timber wars, see STEVEN YAFFEE, THE WISDOM OF THE SPOTTED OWL (1994). 3. Herger
Jason Blakely, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Pp. 142 ... the language of the behavioral approach in social and political study. Second, in the research and writing of my doctoral dissertation (1995), I was strongly influenced by ordinary language philosophy
possible the sources of resistance. These sources, in my view, lie in the fragmented political structure of the United States, and in a political culture that includes a large dose of distrust of government ... , both on the political left and on the political right. Consider first the fragmentation of land-use governance. Among economically advanced democracies, historian Kenneth Jackson points out, "Only in
0 Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of California , USA 1 Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School. J.D. & Ph.D. (Political Science), University of California, Berkeley. I am ... the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. I also the American Political Science Association. Finally, thanks to Matthew Purcell and Philomena Meluch for their excellent research assistance, and to
. Analyzing the potential legal implications of the Undertaking requires an appreciation of the environmental and political problems threatening the conservation of plant genetic resources. In Section I, this ... political conflict surrounding plant breeding by multinational agribusinesses. In Section II, the international efforts to preserve plant genetic resources are analyzed. After discussing the circumstances of
individuals and entities currently engaged in a race to exploit a commons may dominate political institutions designed to combat overexploitation. Because a substantial number of those individuals and entities ... , in other words, may be captured by those with a vested interest in continuing overexploitation. That is the "tragedy" in what I term "the political tragedy of the commons." Regulation of American
This article deals with an aspect of the contemporary political crisis in Western countries, namely, the sharpening conflict between politics and truth, a problem interwoven with the progressive loss ... risk of reducing truth to opinion is to be expected in a merely procedural interpretation of democracy, obscuring the element of shared truth that lies at the origin of every political community. The
amendment, as opposed to a statute, protects policy judgments from the ebb and flow of the political tide."3 One would predict, based on this, that the public trust doctrine in Wisconsin is fairly insulated ... from political pressure. Given its history and constitutional basis, the development and implementation of Wisconsin's public trust doctrine is fertile ground for study. In Wisconsin, three state
. failed to establish any federal PTD rights, the - case served a valuable role by garnering public attention and contributing legal and political momentum to the movement to address climate change. I ... trust litigation by attracting national media attention.37 This raises the prospect that, with continued legal and political pressure, state courts could expand the PTD to include atmospheric resources
accountable to transcendent values and must be in dialogue with other disciplines, including ethics, philosophy, and theology. ... , Teller released scientists from responsibility for any entific research itself is to be done. He viewed moral reflection military-political decision to drop the atomic bomb (to which he on values as
recapitulation of all things in God. Chiara sees this theo-logical interpretation of nature as being not in conflict with other interpretations from philosophy and science but in dialogue with them. Rondinara ... background for many issues in contemporary culture. Conin the cosmos—as well as transcendent—grants creation the abilsider the path mapped out by contemporary philosophy, startity to interact with and
global Catholic philosophy. ... has been discussed above as it relates to the philosophy of Zhu Xi, perhaps the greatest of the Neo-Confucian thinkers. Zhu Xi posits certain “principles,” “forms,” or “laws” (li) that exist “above
“forgotten principle.” This scholarship that began in Europe, spread to Latin America, and then back to Europe with new insights and publications in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology ... ; economics - W 35–52 © 2013 The Appearance of Political Fraternity Why then should we occupy ourselves with 1789 if the appearance of the triptych was so brief? The fact is that the Revolution of 1789
XIII began to address these “new things” (rerum 1. In this paper, “economic liberalism” refers to the political philosophy that calls for unregulated markets and a minimal role for the state while ... who is nomic, and political life are based on a Christian undersocial by nature and whose ultimate spiritual destiny is achieved in community, as testified to by the Bible and as indicated by reason
rejection of all forms of Fundamentalism. Next the author traces the origin of “secularism” to England and explains its theory concerning the need to push religion out of social institutions and political ... emerges at a historical moment in reaction to political, social, and cultural situations. This is true especially in parts of the world that experience traumatic situations, such as when nation-states
tort claims against automakers and electric power companies for injuries the plaintiffs incurred from climate change. Unfortunately, district courts dismissed these cases under the political question ... doctrine, failing to reach the merits of the case. The application of the political question doctrine to these climate change cases, which were in essence complex tort cases, was erroneous. These cases
religious and political leaders, including princes, the emperor, the French king, and even Ottomans, who created the misunderstanding and division that led to the splitting of the Western church. Above all ... the reformers but also persons responsible for the Roman Church so that the Reformation in this sense is the work of Luther as well as of those responsible in Rome and of numerous political actors. In
This article provides an overview of Solzhenitsyn’s historical novel, The Red Wheel, in the context of a philosophy and theology of history. For his philosophical categories used in analysing the ... expression in space and time of the inner life of the Trinity.6 4. Voegelin uses “spiritual realism” “to designate the attitude of the political thinker . . . who has to detach himself intellectually, and
to society as a whole outweigh the costs-hardly seems consistent with basic libertarian principles. 40 Liberal political philosophy, like libertarianism, takes 35. The term "spillover" refers to the ... Pinchot,3 whom he knew briefly Copyright © 1987 by ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY * Research Associate, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland; Ph.D. 1970, University of Rochester; A.B
