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JAN 6, 2014 Journal

Why We Need a Just Rebellion Theory

Because these two influential streams of thought are in such tension with each other, our thinking about rebellion in the West tends to be piecemeal, ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

Christian Just War Reasoning and Two Cases of Rebellion: Ireland 1916–1921 and Syria 2011–Present

Christian just war reasoning is conservative in its recognition that peaceful order is basic to all other forms of human flourishing, and so should not ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

Muslim Discourse on Rebellion

Within Islamic thought, the judgments pertaining to rebels--known as ahkam al-bughat--constitute a subset of the larger category of “judgments pertaining to armed struggle,” or ahkam ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

Ad Fontes: The Question of Rebellion and Moral Tradition on the Use of Force

JAMES TURNER JOHNSON On the older conception, the sovereign could use force against behavior that he understood as endangering the order, justice, and peace of ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change by Stephen M. Gardiner

REVIEW BY PAUL WAPNER The challenges and complexities of the global, intergenerational, and theoretical tempests related to climate change conspire to create the perfect storm, ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

The Ethical Imperative of Curbing Corporate Tax Avoidance

If the future of human rights is dependent on the capacity of the state to fulfill them, then one must focus on how the private ...

JAN 1, 2014 Podcast

What Is Morally Distinct About Our Era?

Thought Leaders Michael Walzer, Jonathan Haidt, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mary Robinson, Jonathan Sacks, Ian Bremmer, Joseph Nye, Kishore Mahbubani, Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Louise Arbour, ...

JAN 1, 2014 Podcast

How Do You Define Global Ethics?

Thought Leaders Jonathan Haidt, Rachel Kleinfeld, Iam Bremmer, Carne Ross, Andrew Nathan, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Walzer, Gillian Tett, and Brent Scowcroft describe their visions of ...

JAN 1, 2014 Podcast

What Are Our Greatest Ethical Challenges?

Thought Leaders Ian Bremmer, Carne Ross, Dambisa Moyo, Michael Walzer, Rachel Kleinfeld, Ethan Zuckerman, Kishore Mahbubani, Dan Ariely, Thomas Pogge, and Michael Doyle describe humanity's ...

JAN 1, 2014 Podcast

What Should Happen this Century?

Thought Leaders Dambisa Moyo, Alan Blinder, Kishore Mahbubani, Ethan Zuckerman, Fazle Hasan Abed, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Louise Arbour, Peter Morales, and Jonathan Sacks describe what ...