Since time immemorial, human beings have started indulging in formatted games of chance or gambling as they are more formally known there is not a single society or culture which has not experienced t
The words "civil society" name the space of uncoerced human association and also the set of relational networks-formed for the sake of family, faith, interest, and ideology--that fill this s
...e relations are freely chosen. Civil society, as Michael Walzer puts it, is "the space of uncoerced human association." But second, there is the idea that these relations depend upon shared ...
...le and being an equilateral triangle, for example. They are not like a chair with its various parts or a human body with its various parts. In societies complex enough to have a state there can be no ...
...t the answer to that, and a potential threat of a focus on civil society, is that one might stop being a human being. (Here we might hear echoes of Aristotle in Marx: if politics is the realm of the h...
...ner. No one among us could participate in all the possibilities contemporary culture spreads before each human subject. Neither is it really workable to be so totally immersed in one fixed mode that n...
... A good society has as one of its constituent elements a rich set of opportunities for satisfying human connections. The natural home of such connections is to be found not so much in national ...
...responsibility that individuals have toward each other in specific social settings, about very elemental human things like trust and betrayal, about the problems of social setting of unequal pow...
...ureaucratic modes of organization, the welfare state can become more limited, more accountable, and more human e. The fourth principle of communal democracy is the continuity of social and political p...
...tions in mind, it is of highest interest to observe in recent philosophical discussion (and within "human ities" in general) something like a "movement"--or, more modestly speaking,...
... In recent years NASA and the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services have all established their own versions of the military-industrial complex--comp...
...s subsystem can be made more efficient in the proper sense, i.e., without violating or denying its human e purposes. In order to show this I will take the health system as an example. In Germany...
...rtainly in the American discussion--a new awareness of the critical role of what is often referred to as human capital. That is to say that all national societies today find that their future hinges o...
...ecoming," is illusion. A "Parmenidean" approach discerns in nations something inherent in human existence, something primordial which makes historical reappearances in varied guises, an...
...s his own and gives a Catholic gloss to the spiritual legacy of early Marxism, the theory of alienation. Human s who exist only as creatures of the market, who seek only the indefinite increase of thei...
...on between the universal and the particular. There is indeed a way in which the abstract universalism of human rights can be used to negate specific identities and to repress some forms of collective ...
...titutions, but must spread throughout society, internationalism, as well as global and local solidarity. Human rights, citizen rights, and human itarian intervention rights are inseparable and indivisi...
...d today are not natural but rather social, economic, and political changes that are the product of human action and can therefore be channeled and regulated in different ways. The engineering of...
