Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter to a friend, Jean Baptiste le Roy, in which he expressed his great faith in the newly established American constitution but added that one could never be sure of its endurance, for ...

A study of two philosophical proposals to eradicate global poverty

Populism is often regarded detrimental to democracy. But populism also stresses the importance of the rule of the people, which is what democracy in its most basic form is all about. This positive relation between populism ...

This thesis examines the challenge of health care rationing. It discusses multiple sets of ethical frameworks and their suggested strategies to questions of health care rationing. Based on a discussion of utilitarianism ...

Charles Taylor en Michel Foucault over de relatie tussen individuele vrijheid, identiteit en de sociaal culturele context

An analysis of the incorporation of individual responsibility in health care, using a luck egalitarian framework

Amongst the inhabitants of today’s Western societies, there is a growing discontent with traditional models of state-level representative democracy. Specifically, the perceived distance between politics and citizens is a ...