Political theorists tend to dismiss the concept of constitutional patriotism for two main reasons. On the one hand, constitutional patriotism — understood as a postnational, universalist form of democratic political allegiance — is rejected on account of its abstract quality. On the otherhand, it is argued that constitutional patriotism, while apprearing universalist, is in fact particular thro...

Mutualism provides a compelling account of the fairness intuitions on display in economic games. However, it is not yet clear how well the approach holds up as an explanation of all human morality. The theory needs to be tested outside the methodological neighborhood it was born in; such testing has the potential to greatly improve our understanding of morality in general.

Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that...

It is a common phenomenon in many countries that physicians employed in public hospitals also work in private clinics. In the literature, physician dual practice is argued to be a self selection mechanism in terms of quality and morality. In other words, hospital physicians with high quality or low morality are more likely to have private practice. In some developing countries, dual practice is...

The systems of patent rights in force in Europe today, both at the level of national law and on the regional level, contain general clauses prohibiting the patenting of inventions whose publication and exploitation would be contrary to "ordre public" or morality. Recent years have brought frequent discussion about limiting the possibility of patent protection for biotechnological inventions for...

Este artigo pretende demonstrar a necessidade de adotar-se técnica interpretação conforme Constituição para que definição dos atos improbidade administrativa por violação princípios da Administração Pública, trazida pela nova Lei Improbidade Administrativa, abranja condutas funcionais agentes públicos consideradas crimes dolosos, modo que, um tempo só, não se desfigure proteção conferida Federa...