The classic defense of free speech has justified its protection on public grounds. Under this view, the First Amendment protects free speech to ensure the proper functioning of democratic self-government by facilitating the spread of truth on important public matters. Recently, however, legal...

Autonomy is often critiqued as a concept of individual egoism, and an ethic of care posed in contrast. This article defends autonomy against that critique. Unconditional autonomy, as a capacity of the will, necessarily entails obligations. It will be seen that autonomy is a norm of civility, and...

This archeology of negotiation engages us in a philosophical questioning. It explores remote thoughts, in time and places. First, it explores a short history of Western philosophy that echoes negotiation. Second, it uncovers some less known history of negotiation theory, this time anchored in...

Purpose - The paper attempts at introducing the main differences in Islamic and Christian human rights thought. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the Old and New Testament, the Qur’an and the European Convention on Human Rights as ideological-theoretical framework with the aim to...

Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...

This article reviews historical transformations in the mainstream theoretical endeavors to address the ideational/cognitive aspects of social action. The review is a historically contextualized examination of changes in relevant mainstream social theories of ‘ideation’ or ‘cognition’ in...

Commutative justice is the current dominant link between economics and ethics in liberal societies, encapsulated in the principle of honoring contracts. Market theory’s elevation of the role of commutative justice, or justice in exchange and property, is often taken as liberalism’s...

Friedrich Hayek is often credited with the resurgence of interest in alternative monetary systems. His own proposal, however, received sharp criticism from Milton Friedman, Stanley Fischer, and others at the outset and never gained much support among academic economists or the wider population....

The recent events of national and global economy prove, in a sense synthesizers, non-performance, ignorance and economic dilettantism of some considered domain experts, reason for which, through this article, we highlight the need to revisit the concept of economist in economy and society, and,...