ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Berhanu Anteneh 17 Goals for People, for Planet World leaders came together in 2015 and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agenda remains the world’s roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet …
Maintaining a tradition of high-impact research and policy advice, this latest report from the NewLines Institute was prepared by a talented group of international law professionals with expertisein international criminal law and human rights. Distinctive for the breadth and depth of analysis,it has the potential to become a landmark step in the road to accountability …
Spinoza attempted to replace religion (old Testament) with Ethics. He believed in God but in a way different from usual or universally accepted. This video is a documentation of this fact based on Spinoza’s book, Ethics. Watch the Video
Benedict de Spinoza was among the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers who flourished in the second half of the 17th century. He made significant contributions in virtually every area of philosophy, and his writings reveal the influence of such divergent sources as Stoicism, Jewish Rationalism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers …
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election. But it was the ballot signature verification …
John Finnis’s Natural Law and Natural Rights’ is a remarkable book.Finnis offers a robust exposition and defence of natural law-but in termsthat differ significantly from the way in which this tradition is oftenunderstood today, not least by its defenders. He does so by means ofstriking and powerful arguments; arguments that owe little, however, tothe major …
A core fnding of public opinion research is that most voters do not know much about thepolicy debates that occur among academic experts, Congress, and the bureaucracy and arecovered in the press. Their knowledge is thin, ofen confused, and sometimes mistaken(Delli Carpini and Keeter 1996; Lupia 2015). To some extent, this is inevitable, because individual …
Introduction This book is an introduction to the major theoretical approaches currently utilized by Marxist scholars as frameworks for the conduct ofempirical or historical research on public policy and political development. The book is not intended as a comprehensive survey ofthe entirefield of state theory, but is focused on plain Marxist, neo-Marxist,and post-Marxist theories of …
Traditionally, faith and reason have each been considered to be sources of justification for religious belief. Because both can purportedly serve this same epistemic function, it has been a matter of much interest to philosophers and theologians how the two are related and thus how the rational agent should treat claims derived from either source. …
If you think you understand the politics of ‘church and state’ relations, then you don’t understand the nature of Christianity in ancient Rome. Late Roman and Christian relationships were at an intercultural turning point by the conclusion of the reign of Diocletian. Relations between Church and State developed as a product of political and social tensions evolving from certain ‘secular’ aspects of …