plagues Regan's MH principle. Whether inflicting an inferior degree of harm is sufficient or not should not be established by the perpetrator of the harm, nor by improbable mathematical calculations, but by those being harmed. Going back to the example of
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Who Governs in Deep Crises?
The Case of Germany
Wolfgang Merkel
France, Italy, Spain, and New York were to be avoided in Germany. There is also a third factor. German epidemiologists’ model-based calculations suggested for worse-case or even normal-case scenarios a bleak picture. The talk was not of thousands, but
’Tis but a Habit in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Habitual Voting, Political Alienation and Spectatorship
Anthony Lawrence A. Borja
. habit is produced, not through mere repetition but out of the alignment of an initial calculation and eventual behaviour with a consistent context – an alignment that will ease future calculations and facilitate the repetition of a behaviour. I note that
Leslie Paul Thiele and Marshall Young
the faculty of practical judgment wholly in the crucible of worldly experience is problematic. But if abstract principle cannot be translated into workable practice through calculation and cogitation alone, is there any choice but to hone the faculty
The Economics of Decolonisation
Institutions, Education and Elite Formation
Nicola Viegi
, available in Mitchell (1998) . Table 2 Number of Children in primary school as % of the total population (Source: Author’s calculations on Mitchell 1998 data) 1930 1950 Ghana 0.01892 0.07455 Sierra Leone 0.00848 0.01515 Nigeria 0.00971 0.03284 Average 0
Teppo Eskelinen
money for, say, seeds, assumes a financial risk for the duration of waiting repayment from the next crop. Further, an insurance company can sell the farmer (or the money lender) an insurance for a price determined on the basis of this calculation. In
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Central and Eastern Europe
The Rise of Autocracy and Democratic Resilience
Petra Guasti
.02 8010000 * 2530.58 96482 Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus , calculations by the author, all data as of As of August 5, 2020; * as of July 26, 2020 The fatality rate can be explained by state capacity to manage the crisis
Christopher J. Allsobrook
, rights-based Kantian ethics, of libertarian or utilitarian calculations of individual preferences, and of republican conceptions of freedom. But it looks so good that he wants to eat it too. To ‘provide practical means of distinguishing between power
Ajume H. Wingo
attempt to conquer, by mutual agreement, what one can no longer hope to obtain through violence. … War is all impulse, commerce, calculation. Hence it must follow that an age must come when commerce replaces war. We have reached this age’ ( Constant 1816