O’Neill martin.oneill[@]york.ac.uk Lecture 2: Positive and Negative Liberty 1. William E. Connolly: Liberty as an ‘Essentially-Contested Concept’ • See Connolly‚ The Terms of Political Discourse (1983)‚ and the relevant excerpt in CKS (i.e. Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology‚ ed. Ian Carter‚ Matthew Kramer and Hillel Steiner (Blackwell‚ 2007).) • The idea of an “essentially contested concept” – a concept that cannot be specified in detail in advance of normative debates. • The meanings of terms
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A Short Essay on Freedom What exactly is freedom? Can you taste it‚ see it‚ reach out and touch it? The answer to these questions is no. However‚ if reflected upon‚ freedom can certainly be felt‚ not by the hands but by the emotion called feeling. Since all we can do is describe properties of freedom‚ the question remains how freedom is explainable with words. Youth are not burdened by restrictions placed upon adults; therefore‚ a simpler idea of being able to
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Determine the severity of a disease • Guide doctors in deciding on the best medicine or treatment to use for certain individuals • Identify gene changes that may increase the risk to develop a disease • Identify gene changes that could be passed on to children • Screen newborn babies for certain treatable conditions
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cleanliness‚self care and so on.To be more precise‚ students organize their work without their parents’ instructions‚and at the same time they can find out time for their recreational activities. Another reason that since they interact with students from different family background‚they learn how to maintain relationship with different kinds of people. They learn importance of co-operation in social life. Apart from this‚students can concentrated more on their studies. Even lazy students
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Many poets use poetry to express their feelings on their relationships with their parents or children. ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ by Alice Walker is about a girl who has grown into an adult and is thinking back to when she was younger. In the poem she talks about how much she misses her father because he has passed away. ‘Piano’ by D.H. Lawrence is about a man that is reminded of his mother who always played the piano for him because of a woman that he hears singing. ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua
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How important it is for parents to teach gender roles to their children? Topics such as abortion‚ capital punishment‚ and gender role have always been commonly discussed subject in society since the dawn of time. Gender role simply defined is a person’s inner sense of how a male or female should feel and behave. Society and culture are very important in relation to this subject. This means different societies and cultures may produce children and later‚ grown men and women‚ who have quite
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Media Violence Causes Youth Violence Table of Contents: Further Readings Children‚ Violence‚ and the Media: A Report for Parents and Policy Makers‚ September 14‚ 1999. The links between media violence and youth violence have been periodically explored by various U.S. government agencies‚ including congressional committees. In 1999‚ in the wake of a series of violent school shootings‚ the majority staff of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary prepared a report on media violence‚ excerpts
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Michelle Marano Mr. Weir ENG3U1 May 30th‚ 2012 The importance of Freedoms Freedom is a very important aspect of a society‚ without freedom people live in fear and insecurity. Benjamin Franklin once said “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve nether and lose both” (Franklin). Throughout history one can see how much control the governments have had over their
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Mental Health Disorders in Parents: The Affects on Children and Youth Introduction It has been reported that 21-23 percent of children have or have had atleast one parent with a mental health disorder. These statistics raise concern about the wellbeing of children with parents who possess a server mental illness and the resources not just for the parent‚ but the child or children affected. Children require numerous amounts of needs from their caregivers and an issue with parents who carry a severe mental
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primary functions. d. Stimulates the digestive tract(roughage) Proteins a. Vital to the growth‚ repair and maintenance of the body. b. Can also be used to provide the body with energy. c. Growth and tissue repairs especially for children‚ expectants‚ nursing mothers and invalids Fats a. Provide convenient and concentrated source of energy. b. Surrounds and protects
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