We invite you at CADI, on Friday, 21st January, at 1800 to take part in a discussion about the origin of the cooperation, discussion based on a Michael Tomasello text. “One of the greatest debate of the western civilization is between those that consider that people help each other and cooperate naturally and society corrupts
Kant argues that each of us has certain fundamental rights, and respecting them is more important than maximising the utility. He rejects the idea that morality depends on the actions’ consequences. Our actions are considered moral only when we do what we have to do, when we do something only because it must be done.
Tuesday, 18th May at 1700, we continue the CADI debate series about professor Michael Sandel’s justice course. During the American Civil War, the ones enlisted in the army had the option of hiring and ending somebody else in their place. Was this a right option? A large number of people believe that the answer is
The informal schools and big or small enterprises’ competition on the education market, made education more accessible. Furthermore, if, initially, home schooling had clean-cut religious and ideological features, nowadays, these features have been faded out by the competition’s pressure. Greg Rehmke describes the way in which, if let free, the market powers succeed in changing
The military strategy of “depth defense” is defined as protecting an objective with the help of a large number of defense lines which are becoming stronger and stronger. As the attack advances, it will become vulnerable and, at least, will be neutralized through encirclement. Richard Weaver is drawing a parallel between defense in depth and
According to Marx, in what consists the process of production and circulation of capital? Which is the general production process in capitalism? Why does Marx believe in the inevitability of capitalism end and the victory of the popular revolution? What principles of the Marxist theory survived in other theories? What are the means of nullifying
Academic space freedom has more than one justification: free competition plays the role of an incentive in finding the truth, freedom guarantee protects the evolution of ideas and education from political pressure of the moment and encourages the evolution of the critical spirit that is essential in self-autonomy. How did different, current institutional and organizational
What does it mean “Taking the law into your own hands”? In which conditions is legitimate to use physical coercion in an extra-legal manner? Last week, Michael Sandel reminded us of John Locke and the right- in certain circumstances the obligation- of individuals to start revolutions. We take advantage of the professor Sandel’ s reference
John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights- to life, freedom and property- coming from the fact that they are human beings, independently of the legal laws. According to Locke, natural rights are governed by the law of nature and are known through reason, together with the fact that these rights can’t be given to
The recent technologies from computers’ network, world wide web, to security cameras, lead to a public space enlargement, more precisely: information about persons that were, in the past, known only by a few (close friends and family), become, nowadays, available to anyone who has an interest in finding them. From the perspective of the classic-liberal
