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1 hour ago · Particularly normative theories of politics play a role when it comes to the meaning and interpretation of human rights and the critical, intercultural dialogue on human rights, especially when they explicitly deal with human rights. This is shown not least by the lively debate on the universality of human rights.
1 hour ago · Shari'a. The meaning of the term Shari'a is contested, partly because the term itself is only mentioned once in the Qur’an. 5 Shari’a has been defined as the “umbrella of rules, regulations, values and normative frameworks, covering all aspects and spheres of life for Muslims, as developed over time.” 6 In this connotation “not all Sharia is legally enforceable in a court of law ...
1 hour ago · citizenship in a democracy (a) gives membership status to individuals within a political unit; (b) confers an identity on individuals; (c) constitutes a set of values, usually interpreted as a commitment to the common good of a particular political unit; (d) involves practicing a degree of participation in the process of political life; and (e) implies gaining and using knowledge and ...
1 hour ago · First in terms of perception. It incites us to ponder how we are discerning justice, or how we are seeing it. Visibility does indeed matter. Obscuring or rendering visible (un)just situations, practices, and conditions constitute the ontological backbone of justice [For an excellent book on digital authoritarianism, where repressive leaders use surveillance and disinformation to control human ...
1 hour ago · Here, A and B are the available treatments. Therefore, by virtue of the design, patients are randomly assigned to treatment A or B and as such assigned to one of two separate groups corresponding to each of these two treatments. However, the principles apply to other, more complex, designs, including those involving more than two treatments.
1 hour ago · In this extract, while the EU shows sympathy and solidarity with Ukraine in the face of the violation of international law principles, it offers support to comfort the victim. Ukraine is depicted as a member of a morally superior in-group to which both the EU and Ukraine belong (we stand by the people of Ukraine).
1 day ago · It understands meaning usually in relation to truth conditions, i.e. it examines in which situations a sentence would be true or false. One of its central methodological assumptions is the principle of compositionality. It states that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and how they are combined.
