John Kleinig
Biographic Data
| ID | 613375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kleinig |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinig |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINIG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Patriotism in the age of Trump
Loyalty Betrayed
Loyalty Betrayed John Kleinig (bio) I don't care a damn for your loyalty when you think I'm right. The time I want it is when you think I'm wrong. —Sir John Monash (1934, epigraph pt. 1) sir john monash, australia's greatest military commander, offers an interestingly nuanced take on what is usually expressed more crudely. He sees loyalty as a matter of costly relational trust—trust in the judgment of another to whom one is attached; trust in sit…
Correctional Ethics
Trust and critical thinking
This article discusses the tension between trust, as an expression of interpersonal commitment, and critical thinking, which includes a demand for reasons. It explores the importance of each for individual flourishing, and then seeks to establish some ways in which they intersect, drawing on ideas of authority and trustworthiness. It argues that despite the appearance of a deep tension between trust and critical thinking, they are importantly int…
Deserts, Philosophical Concept of
Confronting Death From Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI)
Suicide and other self-directed violence deaths are likely grossly underestimated, reflecting inappropriate classification of many drug intoxication deaths as accidents or unintentional and heterogeneous ascertainment and coding practices across states. As the tide of prescription and illicit drug-poisoning deaths is rising, public health and research needs would be better satisfied by considering most of these deaths a result of self-intoxicatio…
On Loyalty and Loyalties
An examination of the nature and virtuousness of loyalty and of some of its primary associations: friends, families, organizations, professions, nations, countries (patriotism), and religion (absolute loyalty). Loyalty is distinguished from its cognates and contrasts, its role in human associative life is articulated, and its status as a virtue is defended. The particularist-universalist debate is addressed, the idea of a loyal opposition explore…
Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality
Objectives. We have described national trends for the 5 leading external causes of injury mortality. Methods. We used negative binomial regression and annual underlying cause-of-death data for US residents for 2000 through 2009. Results. Mortality rates for unintentional poisoning, unintentional falls, and suicide increased by 128%, 71%, and 15%, respectively. The unintentional motor vehicle traffic crash mortality rate declined 25%. Suicide rank…
Security and Privacy
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security
This volume presents 19 original essays addressing what is widely regarded as the most serious problem confronting America today and for years to come – terrorism – from the unique perspective of criminology. The chapters collected here address such issues as the prevention of terrorism, the applicability of community policing and routine activities models of crime to the problem of terrorism, how to balance liberty and security, and how to think…
From Social Justice to Criminal Justice
The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate numbers. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological perspectives, explores some of the more troubling questions and ethical dilemmas inherent in this situation. The contributors, including well-known legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit, George Fletcher, and Jeremy Waldron, examine issues such as hei…
The Ethics of Policing
This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community, should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in broad terms but also tackles specific problems such as accountability, the use of force, deceptive stratagems used t…
Policing the Homeless
The homeless challenge police to reconsider their social role, the constituency they serve, the alliances they should form, and the activities they should engage in. This paper considers three conceptions of the police role — law enforcement, order maintenance, and social peacekeeping — and indicates how they impinge on treatment of the homeless. The moral challenge posed by the homeless favors the peacekeeping conception, but the inadequate reso…
Arguing Every Step
Since it is impossible to tackle every question relevant to any complex philosophical problem at once, every philosopher must operate with some assumptions. Taken together, these assumptions constitute a perspective; and one's philosophical perspective inevitably shapes the way in which one approaches the problem and frames the questions that must be answered if progress is to be made toward solving it. Although Kleinig's perspective-the familiar…
Valuing life
Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies. And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the negative query "Under what conditions may life be disregarded or terminated?" John Kleinig asks a different, more positive question: What may be said in behalf of life? Looking at the full r…
Teaching and learning police ethics
A Libertarian Response to Moral Diversity
Book reviewed in this article: The Foundations of Bioethics. By H. Tristram Engelhardt
Case Studies
This case study involves a foreigner who has come to the United States hoping to obtain a kidney transplant. The woman's chances are not good because her funds are exhausted, kidneys are scarce, and U.S. citizens normally are given priority for available organs. Three commentators are asked on what grounds the decision to transplant non-immigrant aliens should be made, and by whom. Prottas, a member of the U.S. Task Force on Organ Transplantation…
Whatever Happened to Psychosurgery
In this review of two books on psychosurgery, Bloch highlights Elliot\nS. Valenstein's treatment of the history of the procedure and John Kleinig's\nappraisal of the clinical and ethical issues involved. Valenstein, in
Passmore's Philosophy of Teaching
Paternalism
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Education
Journal Article Recent work in the Philosophy of Education Get access Philosophical Issues in Education. By John Kleinig. ( Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 301. Price £5.95) Education, Society and Human Nature. By Anthony O’Hear ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 173. Price £7.95, £3.95 Pa) Children’s Rights. By C. A. Wringe. ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 180. Price £12.50) Education and the Individual. By Brenda Cohen. ( Allen & Unwin, 1981. Pp. 104)…
John Stuart Mill and voluntary slavery contracts
Mill's unwillingness to support the enforcement of voluntary slavery agreements is problematically related to his strong anti‐paternalism. Working on the assumption that it is too simple to charge him with inconsistency, this paper examines several interpretations of his remarks, and explores some of the deeper motivations that may have influenced his position. Several features of his argument are emphasized: the fact that his opposition is to sl…
Academic Freedom
Neutrality in Moral Education
Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality
Objectives. We have described national trends for the 5 leading external causes of injury mortality. Methods. We used negative binomial regression and annual underlying cause-of-death data for US residents for 2000 through 2009. Results. Mortality rates for unintentional poisoning, unintentional falls, and suicide increased by 128%, 71%, and 15%, respectively. The unintentional motor vehicle traffic crash mortality rate declined 25%. Suicide rank…
On Loyalty and Loyalties
An examination of the nature and virtuousness of loyalty and of some of its primary associations: friends, families, organizations, professions, nations, countries (patriotism), and religion (absolute loyalty). Loyalty is distinguished from its cognates and contrasts, its role in human associative life is articulated, and its status as a virtue is defended. The particularist-universalist debate is addressed, the idea of a loyal opposition explore…
Confronting Death From Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI)
Suicide and other self-directed violence deaths are likely grossly underestimated, reflecting inappropriate classification of many drug intoxication deaths as accidents or unintentional and heterogeneous ascertainment and coding practices across states. As the tide of prescription and illicit drug-poisoning deaths is rising, public health and research needs would be better satisfied by considering most of these deaths a result of self-intoxicatio…
Teaching and learning police ethics
Mill, Children, and Rights
(1976). Mill, Children, and Rights* Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-16
Principles of Neutrality in Education
Trust and critical thinking
This article discusses the tension between trust, as an expression of interpersonal commitment, and critical thinking, which includes a demand for reasons. It explores the importance of each for individual flourishing, and then seeks to establish some ways in which they intersect, drawing on ideas of authority and trustworthiness. It argues that despite the appearance of a deep tension between trust and critical thinking, they are importantly int…
John Stuart Mill and voluntary slavery contracts
Mill's unwillingness to support the enforcement of voluntary slavery agreements is problematically related to his strong anti‐paternalism. Working on the assumption that it is too simple to charge him with inconsistency, this paper examines several interpretations of his remarks, and explores some of the deeper motivations that may have influenced his position. Several features of his argument are emphasized: the fact that his opposition is to sl…
R. S. Peters on Punishment
R. S. Peters on punishment
(1972). R. S. Peters on punishment. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 259-269
Postscript 1
Mill, Children, and Rights
(1976). Mill, Children, and Rights* Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-16
Principles of Neutrality in Education
Compulsory Schooling
Academic Freedom
Neutrality in Moral Education
Recent Work in the Philosophy of Education
Journal Article Recent work in the Philosophy of Education Get access Philosophical Issues in Education. By John Kleinig. ( Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 301. Price £5.95) Education, Society and Human Nature. By Anthony O’Hear ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 173. Price £7.95, £3.95 Pa) Children’s Rights. By C. A. Wringe. ( Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 180. Price £12.50) Education and the Individual. By Brenda Cohen. ( Allen & Unwin, 1981. Pp. 104)…
John Stuart Mill and voluntary slavery contracts
Mill's unwillingness to support the enforcement of voluntary slavery agreements is problematically related to his strong anti‐paternalism. Working on the assumption that it is too simple to charge him with inconsistency, this paper examines several interpretations of his remarks, and explores some of the deeper motivations that may have influenced his position. Several features of his argument are emphasized: the fact that his opposition is to sl…
Paternalism
Case Studies
This case study involves a foreigner who has come to the United States hoping to obtain a kidney transplant. The woman's chances are not good because her funds are exhausted, kidneys are scarce, and U.S. citizens normally are given priority for available organs. Three commentators are asked on what grounds the decision to transplant non-immigrant aliens should be made, and by whom. Prottas, a member of the U.S. Task Force on Organ Transplantation…
Whatever Happened to Psychosurgery
In this review of two books on psychosurgery, Bloch highlights Elliot\nS. Valenstein's treatment of the history of the procedure and John Kleinig's\nappraisal of the clinical and ethical issues involved. Valenstein, in
Passmore's Philosophy of Teaching
A Libertarian Response to Moral Diversity
Book reviewed in this article: The Foundations of Bioethics. By H. Tristram Engelhardt
Teaching and learning police ethics
Valuing life
Abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, genetic engineering and fetal experimentation, environmental and animal rights--these topics inspire some of today's most heated public controversies. And it is fashionable to pursue these debates in terms of the negative query "Under what conditions may life be disregarded or terminated?" John Kleinig asks a different, more positive question: What may be said in behalf of life? Looking at the full r…
Policing the Homeless
The homeless challenge police to reconsider their social role, the constituency they serve, the alliances they should form, and the activities they should engage in. This paper considers three conceptions of the police role — law enforcement, order maintenance, and social peacekeeping — and indicates how they impinge on treatment of the homeless. The moral challenge posed by the homeless favors the peacekeeping conception, but the inadequate reso…
Arguing Every Step
Since it is impossible to tackle every question relevant to any complex philosophical problem at once, every philosopher must operate with some assumptions. Taken together, these assumptions constitute a perspective; and one's philosophical perspective inevitably shapes the way in which one approaches the problem and frames the questions that must be answered if progress is to be made toward solving it. Although Kleinig's perspective-the familiar…
The Ethics of Policing
This book is the most systematic, comprehensive and philosophically sophisticated discussion of police ethics yet published. It offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical values that police, as servants of the community, should uphold as they go about their task. The book considers the foundations and purpose of police authority in broad terms but also tackles specific problems such as accountability, the use of force, deceptive stratagems used t…
From Social Justice to Criminal Justice
The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate numbers. This collection of original, interactive essays, written from a variety of ideological perspectives, explores some of the more troubling questions and ethical dilemmas inherent in this situation. The contributors, including well-known legal and political philosophers Philip Pettit, George Fletcher, and Jeremy Waldron, examine issues such as hei…
Security and Privacy
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security
This volume presents 19 original essays addressing what is widely regarded as the most serious problem confronting America today and for years to come – terrorism – from the unique perspective of criminology. The chapters collected here address such issues as the prevention of terrorism, the applicability of community policing and routine activities models of crime to the problem of terrorism, how to balance liberty and security, and how to think…
Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality
Objectives. We have described national trends for the 5 leading external causes of injury mortality. Methods. We used negative binomial regression and annual underlying cause-of-death data for US residents for 2000 through 2009. Results. Mortality rates for unintentional poisoning, unintentional falls, and suicide increased by 128%, 71%, and 15%, respectively. The unintentional motor vehicle traffic crash mortality rate declined 25%. Suicide rank…
Confronting Death From Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI)
Suicide and other self-directed violence deaths are likely grossly underestimated, reflecting inappropriate classification of many drug intoxication deaths as accidents or unintentional and heterogeneous ascertainment and coding practices across states. As the tide of prescription and illicit drug-poisoning deaths is rising, public health and research needs would be better satisfied by considering most of these deaths a result of self-intoxicatio…
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