Education, Republican Right and Duty

Home haemodialysis: a right and a duty.

From Duty to Right: the Role of Public Education in the Transition to Aging Societies

This paper argues that currently advanced, aging economies experienced a qualitative change in the role of public education during the process of industrialization. In the early phases of the Industrial Revolution, public education was regarded as a duty that regulated child labor and thereby discouraged childbirth. As these economies developed and the population aged, younger generations came ...

Informed consent: patient's right or patient's duty?

The rule that a patient should give a free, fully-informed consent to any therapeutic intervention is traditionally thought to express merely a right of the patient against the physician, and a duty of the physician towards the patient. On this view, the patient may waive that right with impunity, a fact sometimes expressed in the notion of a right not to know. This paper argues that the rule a...

Lifelong Learning: Right and Benefit, Duty and Responsibility

The purpose of this article is to present the issue of 'lifelong learning' to public discussion, from the aspects of right and duty and the benefit and the responsibility; and to promote progression towards a national policy in this field. In the early 21st century, in the era of information and knowledge, the all encompassing definition of 'lifelong learning' seems to be a central motif in the...

Relational republican regulation

This response refutes point (i) in the Ayres comment’s abstract. It argues that at its heart responsive regulation is about seeking strategies that will render regulation more relational when it counts. This is possible even in domains like tax compliance where 99 per cent of the routine regulatory action occurs without face-to-face encounter. A number of critiques in the special issue are embr...