Jamie Mayerfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 2164605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Mayerfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayerfeld |
| SIGNATURE | MAYERFELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1944-7825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Charles Dickens wrote, “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice” (1861, 75). He meant that cruelties of various kinds are correctly perceived by children as unjust, because they subject their victims to treatment that is not right. Injustice includes violence, exploitation, unfairness, emotional abuse, and much else besides. It can …
Rights as Weapons
“Reply
Summary
No peace without injustice
Is the demand for justice likelier to cause or to prevent war? Hobbes expresses sympathy for the former view and Locke for the latter. However, they both reason their way toward an intermediate position, symbolized by the impartial judge in Locke's theory and the arbitrator in Hobbes's theory. Peace is possible when we create a process that resolves disputes according to widely intuitive principles of equality and reciprocity. This requires, howe…
Ending Impunity
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The History of Human Rights
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. By Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 459p. $24.95. Are human rights universal or culturally bounded? From what religious or philosophical premises are they derived? Do they conflict? Do they empower or instead disempower the weak and oppressed? What is their fate in an era of globalization? The key to answering these questions may lie more …
Freedom's Reach
Impartiality in Context
The Myth of Benign Group Identity
Some political theorists claim that a nationalism that acknowledges the authority of liberal moral principles can avoid the violent excesses that have given nationalism a bad name. On this view, the cure for nationalist violence is not a rejection of nationalism in all its forms, but the cultivation of liberal nationalism. Drawing on the insights of Hobbes and Locke on the sources of violent conflict, I argue instead that any nationalism-liberal …
The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering
The Myth of Benign Group Identity
Some political theorists claim that a nationalism that acknowledges the authority of liberal moral principles can avoid the violent excesses that have given nationalism a bad name. On this view, the cure for nationalist violence is not a rejection of nationalism in all its forms, but the cultivation of liberal nationalism. Drawing on the insights of Hobbes and Locke on the sources of violent conflict, I argue instead that any nationalism-liberal …
The History of Human Rights
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. By Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 459p. $24.95. Are human rights universal or culturally bounded? From what religious or philosophical premises are they derived? Do they conflict? Do they empower or instead disempower the weak and oppressed? What is their fate in an era of globalization? The key to answering these questions may lie more …
No peace without injustice
Is the demand for justice likelier to cause or to prevent war? Hobbes expresses sympathy for the former view and Locke for the latter. However, they both reason their way toward an intermediate position, symbolized by the impartial judge in Locke's theory and the arbitrator in Hobbes's theory. Peace is possible when we create a process that resolves disputes according to widely intuitive principles of equality and reciprocity. This requires, howe…
Rights as Weapons
Ending Impunity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering
Impartiality in Context
The Myth of Benign Group Identity
Some political theorists claim that a nationalism that acknowledges the authority of liberal moral principles can avoid the violent excesses that have given nationalism a bad name. On this view, the cure for nationalist violence is not a rejection of nationalism in all its forms, but the cultivation of liberal nationalism. Drawing on the insights of Hobbes and Locke on the sources of violent conflict, I argue instead that any nationalism-liberal …
Freedom's Reach
Ending Impunity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The History of Human Rights
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. By Micheline R. Ishay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 459p. $24.95. Are human rights universal or culturally bounded? From what religious or philosophical premises are they derived? Do they conflict? Do they empower or instead disempower the weak and oppressed? What is their fate in an era of globalization? The key to answering these questions may lie more …
No peace without injustice
Is the demand for justice likelier to cause or to prevent war? Hobbes expresses sympathy for the former view and Locke for the latter. However, they both reason their way toward an intermediate position, symbolized by the impartial judge in Locke's theory and the arbitrator in Hobbes's theory. Peace is possible when we create a process that resolves disputes according to widely intuitive principles of equality and reciprocity. This requires, howe…
“Reply
Summary
Rights as Weapons
The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought
Charles Dickens wrote, “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice” (1861, 75). He meant that cruelties of various kinds are correctly perceived by children as unjust, because they subject their victims to treatment that is not right. Injustice includes violence, exploitation, unfairness, emotional abuse, and much else besides. It can …
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political philosophy (4 works)