Private Law, Double Distortion Argument, and Property-Owning Democracy

Property-Owning Democracy and the Demands of Justice

The Constitutional Framing: Republican Democracy, Private Property, and Free Expression

In 1785 and 1786, Massachusetts fell into economic depression. When the state government responded with fiscal restraint, many landowning farmers, particularly in the central and western portions of the state, fell behind on loan and tax payments and faced possible foreclosures. Town meetings produced demands for legislative action to protect the vulnerable landowners. The government instead pr...

Terri's Law and democracy.

As one can tell from the articles prepared for this Symposium, the litigation concerning Terri’s Law and that more broadly dealing with Theresa Marie Schiavo’s “right to die” has many implications. Other participants have discussed the ways in which this epic litigation saga implicates the proper interpretation of the Florida Constitution,1 advance directives,2 and how the litigation fits into ...

Introspection and Wittgenstein's View on Private Language Argument

استدلال زبان خصوصی از مهم‌ترین مباحث دورة دوم فلسفی ویتگنشتاین به‌شمار می‌رود. آنچه در این باب اهمیّت دارد، این مسئله است که آیا انسان می‌تواند در خلوتگاه خود، زبانی اختصاصی ایجاد نماید که الفاظ آن تنها برای خود او معنادار باشد؟ ویتگنشتاین با ارجاع به فقدان شرط معناداری هویّات درونی و احساسات و نیز با ردّ خصوصی بودن الفاظ و عبارات و بیان توهّمی بودن آن، مدّعی است که چنین زبانی قابل تصوّر نیست، چراکه ...

Supporting Argument in E-democracy

Methods of argument representation can be exploited in systems for edemocracy. In this paper we discuss a particular method of argument representation, known as an argumentation scheme, and some issues concerning the relations between arguments represented using such schemes. We show how this method of argument representation has been implemented in a practical system designed for the public to...