Bioethics with Liberty and Justice


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Joseph M. Boyle Jr. has been a major contributor to the development of Catholic bioethics over the past thirty five years. Boyle’s contribution has had an impact on philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, and his work has in many ways come to be synonymous with analytically rigorous philosophical bioethics done in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Four main themes stand out as central to Boyle’s contribution: the sanctity of life and bioethics: Boyle has elaborated a view of the ethics of killing at odds with central tenets of the euthanasia mentality, double effect and bioethics: Boyle is among the pre-eminent defenders of a role for double effect in medical decision making and morality, the right to health care: Boyle has moved beyond the rhetoric of social justice to provide a natural law grounding for a political right to health care; and the role of natural law and the natural law tradition in bioethics: Boyle’s arguments have been grounded in a particularly fruitful approach to natural law ethics, the so-called New Natural Law theory. The contributors to BIOETHICS WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE: THEMES IN THE WORK OF JOSEPH M. BOYLE discuss, criticize, and in many cases extend the Boyle’s advances in these areas with rigor and sophistication. It will be of interest to Catholic and philosophical bioethicists alike.







With Liberty and Justice for Some


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From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else.




Equality in Liberty and Justice


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Equality in Liberty and Justice is an integrated collection of essays in political philosophy, divided into two parts. The first examines (classically) liberal ideas-the ideas of the Founding Fathers of the American republic-and some of the applications and the rejections of such ideas in our contemporary world. Among other questions about liberty and responsibility it considers, in the context of the imprisonment and psychiatric treatment of dissidents in the psychiatric hospitals of the former Soviet Union, Plato's suggestion that all delinquency is an expression of mental disease.The second part examines the relations and the lack of relations between old fashioned, without prefix or suffix, justice and what is called by its promoters social justice. It therefore presses such questions as "Equal outcomes or equal justice?" and "Enemies of poverty or of inequality?"Equality in Liberty and Justice was originally published before the winning of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. This second edition updates the arguments of the previous editor and draws present day moral conclusions. This book will appeal to those for whom the classical liberal and conservative debates still have great meaning. Flew might well be the most significant sunthesizer of Tocqueville and Mill.




Liberty and Justice for All?


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A wide-ranging exploration of the culture of American politics in the early decades of the Cold War




Liberty & Justice


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Liberty and Justice is a multimillionaire church and Christian journal enterprise that is built from criminal roots. There's a stigma that leaders of the Christian church are nearly perfect people. However, that is not the case for the first couple of the Liberty and Justice enterprise, Aminata Smith and Pastor Sahele. The first couple of the church are involved in a criminal system called the Network. The Network gains financial proceeds from criminal activities like money laundering and drug trafficking. These proceeds help maintain the church, the journal, and the rich pleasures of the first family's desires. The quench to maintain the Liberty and Justice empire is strengthened when a flash drive goes missing, and all hell breaks loose. This particular flash drive holds critical information that the Network needs to continue its money-making criminal activities. Consequently, there is a very bloody witch hunt that takes you around the globe. With a multifaceted plot line, Liberty and Justice has enough drama that satisfies your reading wants, as well as makes you heed to worldly conversation and encounters dealing with sexuality, politicism, crime, and religion. Who has the flash drive? We'll see.




Liberty And Justice For All


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The intention of this book is to provide a better understanding of the mission of public interest lawyers and stimulate thought about ways to energize and build a movement that advances social justice. I could not have succeeded in this effort without the help and support of many individuals and institutions. I wish to express my appreciation for their assistance. I am very grateful to the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Justice for its wisdom in establishing the Alliance and for its continuing support for this book and other important projects. I profited from discussion with many public interest lawyers, activists and foundation officers. These individuals, who are listed in Appendix D, gave generously of their time. A few merit special attention. Charles Halpern and the staff at the Council for Public Interest Law, who wrote Balancing the Scales of Justice: Financing Public Interest Law in America, provided a wonderful model for me to follow.




Liberty and Justice for All


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Liberty and Justice for All is a quick guide to understanding Muslims. Islam is expected to become the second largest religion in the U.S. by the end of this century. Reading more about this growing religion will allow people to become more tolerant and understanding towards Muslims. Not only does this book discuss the main issues of Islam, but it also clarifies the misconceptions being proliferated. Liberty and Justice for All urges people to respect diversity and promotes peaceful and cordial interactions amongst people of different faiths. It has a unique question and answer section for those frequently asked questions about Islam and Muslims. It is a great book to read!




Seeds of Liberty, Justice, Peace, and Democracy in Early America


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This book focuses on the contributions of William Penn (a Quaker) in sowing some seeds of liberty, justice, peace, and democracy in early America, which later became the basis of the 13 English colonies seeking freedom from English rule and the writing of the US constitution. The work explores Europe and America during the Enlightenment in the late sixteenth century and the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. These were times, however, when discrimination and persecution were common due to prevalent religious and political bigotries. Under those circumstances, Penn dared to bring relief to the suffering people by providing them with a safe and secure haven where liberty, justice, peace, and democracy ruled, and he was the first to do that. The book will be useful to those reformers, practitioners, administrators, and scholars engaged in the areas of political studies, sociological studies, ethics, moral studies, religious and justice studies, peace studies, historical and development studies, social welfare and social work studies, and reform movements.




With Liberty and Justice for All


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The author shares her own story as a reminder of the discriminatory practices that threatened women before Roe v. Wade, and identifies how proposed legislation restricting abortions compromises reproductive freedoms.