This paper introduces Richard Rorty’s notion of the liberal ironist and his vision of a liberal utopia and explores the implications of these for philosophical questions concerning morality, as well as morality in general. Rorty’s assertions of the contingency of language, society and self are explored. Under the contingency of language, the figure of the ironist is defined, and Rorty’s concept...

As. the "shock absorber" of social change, criminal law will serve to deal with the most troublesome-results of the progress in articial intelligence and expert systems research and applications. Wo will have to redefine crimes against the person/ property, public morality, and the public order. To do this will require considerable change in our standard.3 of culpability, computer performance, ...

Morone is an expert on health politics and policy and the role of morality in American politics and political development. He has taught at Brown University since 1982 where he serves as the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and is director of Brown's Taubman Center for Public Policy. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Bre...

The development of the legislation to combat veneral diseases in Denmark and Norway since the end of the 19th century has been a process with discussions on the balance between medicine and aspects of morality. Medicine aims at the prevention and cure of diseases, and thus wants to eradicate venereal diseases as part of the public health efforts. Morality considerations have partly been on sexu...

this paper is an inquiry concerning the function of religion in tocqueville’s theory of democracy. in analyzing the ideology of democracy in america, he stated that religion plays an important role in establishing democracy, protecting it against threats such as materialism, individualism, tyranny of majority, focusing of power, and restriction of freedom versus equality. tocqueville explains t...

In his classic article, ‘‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972), pp. 229–243),’’ Peter Singer claimed that affluent people in the developed world are morally obligated to transfer large amounts of resources to poor people in the developing world. For present purposes I will not call Singer’s argument into question. While people can reasonably disagree about exa...