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The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the free will and argues that the free will can realize itself only in the complicated social context of property rights and relations, contracts, moral commitments, family life, the economy, the legal system, and the polity.
Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility; (2) The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression; and (3) The nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty; neither can any ...
The Religions of Man (part 1 of 17-video playlist) (YouTube) of the 1950s St. Louis-based television series which evolved into Smith's book The World's Religions. "Huston Smith Papers: An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives" (Smith biography and collection overview). Syracuse: Syracuse University Libraries, Special ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to rights: Rights – normative principles , variously construed as legal , social , or moral freedoms or entitlements. Theoretical distinctions
This outline of Jewish religious law consists of the book and section headings of the Maimonides' redaction of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, which details all of Jewish observance. Also listed for each section are the specific mitzvot covered by that section.
Some Supreme Court judges see the enactment of this law and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation as the impetus for the Israeli Constitutional Revolution. [4] The law was enacted on March 17, 1992, in the final days of the 12th Knesset, [5] Shortly after it was introduced into Israeli constitutional documents, it became prevalent in human rights discourse, as well as in freedom of speech cases. [6]
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The second part focuses on the human mind and body. Spinoza attacks several Cartesian positions: (1) that the mind and body are distinct substances that can affect one another; (2) that we know our minds better than we know our bodies; (3) that our senses may be trusted; (4) that despite being created by God we can make mistakes, namely, when we affirm, of our own free will, an idea that is ...