Download or read book Individual Duty within a Human Rights Discourse written by Douglas Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discourse and Duty written by Laura Deeks and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues of the size of university endowments, the role of institutional finance in a climate-conscious globalized world, and the role of responsible investment in fiduciary law all converge in the debate over fossil fuel divestment by university endowments. This article uses Harvard and Stanford's divestment campaigns as case studies to explore the discourse of the fossil fuel divestment movement. Taking a multidisciplinary approach in the legal constructivist tradition, this article argues that because fiduciary law and the specific rules governing divestment set the bounds of the possible in the arena of endowment management, the way the campaigners “talk about” divestment matters. This article posits that because endowment trustees must justify their decisions based on fiduciary law and the rules of divestment, the campaigners should ideally be aligning their discourse to fit the legal discourse of divestment if the trustees are their target audience. Using a combination of discourse analysis, a survey of campaigners, and legal analysis, this article examines several issues. First, whether campaigners seem to understand and exhibit a sophisticated approach to the fiduciary rules governing divestment decisions. Second, whether the campaign goals and discourse reflect a more managerial worldview aligned with the world of socially responsible investing and fiduciary finance, or a more radical environmentalist worldview unsympathetic to responsible investing and distrustful of existing political and economic institutions. Third, how the discursive choices of the campaign affect the rhetorical persuasiveness of the case for fossil fuel divestment and the opportunities available to the campaigners for furthering climate action in the arena of endowment management. The analysis identifies campaign discourse typical of both the neo-liberal managerial worldview and the radical environmentalist worldview. The findings suggest that protesting the fossil fuel hegemony and pressuring the government to enact climate legislation are the core campaign goals. It is argued that the political element in the campaign is problematic given the specific fiduciary prohibitions on politically motivated divestment decisions, with the more radical discourse minimizing the campaign's persuasiveness by chafing against the specific divestment rules (viz. the rules prohibiting politically motivated divestment, requiring “insider strategies” of shareholder engagement to be exhausted first, and limiting divestment to use as a strategy of last resort). The misalignment between the campaign discourse and the rules of endowment management may have arisen as a result of misalignment between the “real” goals of the campaign, its target audience, and the choice of arena. This discursive and strategic misalignment incurs opportunity costs for advancing climate action vis-à-vis the endowments and more generally. The final analysis revisits the goals of the campaign and argues that ultimately, if the campaigners are looking for radical political and socio-economic reform, they are unlikely to find it in the conservative realm of fiduciary finance. However, particularly given the moment of flux in the relationship between ethical investing and fiduciary law, the campaigners might find fiduciary law supportive of an alternative path to more far-reaching climate action than divestment alone can deliver, viz. through stronger portfolio greening and ESG investment guidelines spanning the whole of the endowment (as opposed to one industry). It is argued that if campaigners want to green endowments, their case will be stronger the closer it is aligned with the rules and discourse of endowment management.
Download or read book A Discourse of the Duty written by William Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 1698 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse written by Eric R. Boot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality. The dominance of what has been labeled “rights talk” leads to the neglect of duties without corresponding rights (e.g., duties of virtue) and stimulates the proliferation of questionable human rights. Therefore, this book argues for a duty-based perspective on morality in order to, first, salvage duties of virtue, and, second, counter the trend of rights-proliferation by providing some conceptual clarity concerning rights and duties that will enable us to differentiate between genuine and spurious rights-claims. The argument for this duty-based perspective is made by examining two particularly contentious duties: duties to aid the global poor and civic duties. These two duties serve as case studies and are explored from the perspectives of political theory, jurisprudence and moral philosophy. The argument is made that both these duties can only be adequately defined and allocated if we adopt the perspective of duties, as the predominant perspective of rights either does not recognize them to be duties at all or else leaves their content and allocation indefinite. This renewed focus on duties does not wish to diminish the importance of rights. Rather, the duty-based perspective on morality will strengthen human rights discourse by distinguishing more strictly between genuine and inauthentic rights. Furthermore, a duty-based approach enriches our moral landscape by recognizing both duties of justice and duties of virtue. The latter duties are not less important or supererogatory, but function as indispensable complements to the duties prescribed by justice. In this perceptive and exceptionally lucid book, Eric Boot argues that a duty-focused approach to morality will remedy the shortcomings he finds in the standard accounts of human rights. The study tackles staple philosophical topics such as the contrasts between duties of virtue and duties of justice and imperfect and perfect obligations. But more importantly perhaps, it also confronts the practical question of what our human rights duties are and how we ought to act on them. Boot's book is a splendid example of how philosophy can engage and clarify real world problems. Kok-Chor Tan, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania A lively and enjoyable defence of the importance of our having duties to fellow human beings in severe poverty. At a time when global justice has never been more urgent, this new book sheds much needed light. Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government and Head of Durham Law School, Durham University
Download or read book Risk Discourse and Responsibility written by Annelie Ädel and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk, safety and security, but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools, the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered – such as COVID-19, nuclear energy, machine translation, terrorism – are socially pertinent and timely.
Download or read book Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings written by Jan-Ola Östman and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume strengthens the case for analysing discourse from the point of view of discourse participants' accountability and responsibility. It adds an important and largely neglected strand to research in discourse studies and pragmatics by analysing the expression and attribution of responsibility, particularly in professional discourse. Debates on social and professional responsibility have proliferated in recent years both in the public sphere (e.g. in connection with corporate responsibility reports) and in more local practices (e.g. as manifested in the publication of in-house codes of conduct). However, there is little academic research on professional discourse which systematically addresses the ways in which responsibility relations are construed in language use. This volume contains a number of case studies focusing on different professional settings: media, health care and social work. The types of data examined range from globally available mass-consumed discourse (such as news agency dispatches) to local and essentially private face-to-face encounters (such as counselling sessions). The studies examine different linguistic features (such as reported speech in written texts and backchannelling in spoken encounters) and different types of meanings (such as agency and causality). The studies draw on different methodological approaches (mainly pragmatics, conversation analysis and (critical) discourse analysis). A common thread running through the contributions is that responsibility is not a stable quality of people or institutions, but a dynamic and variable resource that language users negotiate in interaction.
Download or read book The Nation s Vice and Peril And the Christian s Duty written by Francis J. Collier and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Individual Duty within a Human Rights Discourse written by Douglas Hodgson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels. Yet there has been comparatively little written on the concept and importance of individual duty within the human rights discourse. This book attempts to comprehensively and systematically examine the corollary of human right - the principle of individual duty - from a number of different perspectives, including history, the law (principally international human rights and humanitarian law and national constitutional law), philosophy, jurisprudence, religion, and ethics. The author attempts to demonstrate that a greater emphasis upon individual duties is consistent with a cultural relativist critique, natural law theory, the experience of national legal systems and regional human rights systems, certain socio-political philosophies and conventional sociological postulates, and the dictates of good public policy. The author urges the assignment of a greater, indeed revived, role for the principle of individual duty in order to achieve a more salutary balance between rights and duties and in the relationship between individual freedom and the welfare of the general community.
Download or read book Fiduciary Law written by Tamar Frankel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in general, and identifies situations in which fiduciary law falls short of offering protection. Frankel analyzes fiduciary debates, and argues that greater preventive measures are required. She offers guidelines for determining the boundaries and substance of fiduciary law, and discusses how failure to enforce fiduciary law can contribute to failing financial and economic systems. Frankel offers ideas and explanations for the courts, regulators, and legislatures, as well as the fiduciaries and entrustors. She argues for strong legal protection against abuse of entrustment as a means of encouraging fiduciary services in society. Fiduciary Law can help lawyers and policy makers designing the future law and the systems that it protects.
Download or read book Discourse on some important points of Christian doctrine and duty written by Alexander Stewart (Minister of Douglas.) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Obedience to Rulers The Duty and Its Limitations a Discourse Delivered December 22d 1850 on the Two Hundred and Thirtieth Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims written by William De Loss Love and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book OBEDIENCE TO RULERS THE DUTY written by William De Loss 1819-1898 Love and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Discourse Upon the Duties of a Physician with Some Sentiments on the Usefulness and Necessity of a Public Hospital written by Samuel Bard and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W030862 New-York: Printed by A. & J. Robertson, at the corner of Beaver-Street, M, DCC, LXIX. [1769]. [2], ii, iii, [1],18p.; 8°
Download or read book Our Nation s Sins and the Christian s Duty a Fast Day Discourse written by Daniel 19th Cent Foster and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The duty of union in a just war A discourse delivered in Stoneham April 8 1813 being the day of the state fast By John H Stevens From the 2d Boston ed written by John H. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Inquiry the great duty of man A discourse etc written by William FORSTER (Dissenting Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discourse Concerning Western Planting written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
