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	Justification for the state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The justification of the state is a term that refers to the source of legitimate authority for the state or government.
		During the Middle Ages in Europe, the most widespread justification of the state was the divine right of kings, which stated that monarchs draw their power from God, and the state should be only an apparatus that puts the monarch's will into practice.
		The Holy Roman Empire was not a state in that sense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_justification_of_the_state (287 words)

	Consequentialist justifications of the state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Consequentialist justifications of the state are philosophical arguments which contend that the state is justified by the good results it produces.
		Consequentialist justifications of the state focus on the results that are achieved when certain institutions are put in place.
		Consequentialist theories usually maintain that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on whether or not the results of the action are desirable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consequentialist_justifications_of_the_state (441 words)

	Consequentialist justifications of the state - Wikipedia
		A consequentialist theory of (the justification of) the state is any theory which says that the existence of some states is morally justified by the comparatively beneficial consequences of giving those states a monopoly on the initiation of force.
		The consequentialist can talk about the state of nature just like the social contract theory; it's just that the consequentialist responds to the horror story about the state of nature differently from the social contract theorist.
		Of course, some states are thoroughly corrupt and indeed they have no right to exist; they do abuse their power, infringing those essential rights that it's supposed to be protecting, and so forth.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/ConsequentialistJustificationsOfTheState (1329 words)

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		Consequentialist justifications of the state are philosophical arguments that contend that the state is justified by the good results it produces.
		Consequentialists would ask whether those bridges would have been built in the absence of the state and whether those bridges are valued by those who use them.
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	The justification of the state
		There is a loose sense of the word "state" in which all the citizens of a particular territory are part of the state.
		In that sense, "state" means something like "country." But as the term is usually used in philosophy, "state" has a more restricted meaning; it means, basically, whatever it is within a particular body of theory that makes one institution the unique and legitimate "government" of that territory.
		In neither case is the state or government some totally monolithic "leviathan" (to use Thomas Hobbes's term), a single entity with a single mind and a single will -- even though words like "the state" and "the government", may invite us to think of it that way.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/the_justification_of_the_state (725 words)

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		They contend that the state needs no justification other than the fact that good things happen when certain institutions are in place.
		He might say that the workers who built that bridge were exploited by the government that ordered it built, and by the investors in the private contractors who profitted, etc. He might have a deontological theory of exploitation, see deontology.
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	Consequentialist justifications of the state at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''Consequentialist justifications of the state''' are philosophical arguments that contend that the...
		Consequentialist justifications of the state are philosophical arguments that contend that the state is...
		Consequentialist justifications of the state[?] The purpose of government.
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	Learn more about Social contract theories in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A social contract theory of the state is any theory which says that the existence of the state is morally justified by some sort of agreement, often called a "social contract," that is said hold among the residents of a particular geographical area over which the state has authority.
		He thought that the state of nature, the condition of having no government, would in effect be the war of all against all.
		What gives the state the right to exist is the fact that I would agree to establish it, and to give up the liberty I would have, in the state of nature, to initiate force.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/social_contract_theories.html (2601 words)

	Political philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early Christian philosophy of Augustine of Hippo was by and large a rewrite of Plato in a Christian context.
		It is that work, and The Discourses, a rigorous analysis of the classical period, from which modern political philosophy is largely derived.
		This conceptual distinction continues to operate in political science, although some political scientists, philosophers, historians and cultural anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outside of its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states which nevertheless must be considered politically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_philosophy (2063 words)

	AgBioForum 5(1): Biotechnology's Future Benefits: Prediction or Promise?
		This points to a justification dilemma for proponents of future biotech R&D. If consequentialist ethics demands actual benefit/risk/cost calculation in order for an action to be justified, and there are not yet any of these products on the market (or in the approval process), then it appears that future biotechnology cannot be ethically justified.
		This would imply that a deontological justification is being invoked for R&D on future biotech, an idea that is not inconsistent with, for example, obligations that human subjects or animal care committees impose on researchers to minimize harms and respect dignity.
		One thing it practically means is that rather than addressing the ethical justification of science or biotechnology in general terms, we now must address the ethical justification of the individual actions of scientists and others involved in the processes of science as it delivers technology.
	www.agbioforum.org /v5n1/v5n1a05-burkhardt.htm (3370 words)

	Advances in Pragma-Dialectics
		Such expressions, Houtlosser claims, indicate anticipation of doubt in all cases except where speakers are describing their own state of mind in response to a specific request to describe it, or where they make a concession or express agreement in response to an interlocutor’s previous endorsement of the embedded proposition.
		It is an indirect justification of the reasonableness of the speaker’s (in)action, by way of providing directly a causal explanation of the already accepted fact of this (in)action.
		Indirect answers (such as a comment that the United States should work through international agencies in response to a question whether the interlocutor agrees with some recent unilateral action by the US President) implicate a direct answer through their obvious violation of Gricean cooperative maxims, and so are not fallacious.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~hitchckd/advances.htm (6497 words)

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		epistemology -- theory of justification -- the regress argument in epistemology -- a priori and a posteriori knowledge -- knowledge -- skepticism -- common sense and the Diallelus
		political philosophy -- the justification of the state -- anarchism and natural law theory -- social contract theories -- consequentialist justifications of the state -- the purpose of government -- libertarianism -- socialism
		Since these are lectures, I refer to myself, the students, Ohio State, readings, other lectures I've given (hence, other parts of the wiki) and other stuff that shouldn't belong on the wiki.
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	Victims Proposal
		Perhaps the interest in victims' rights in the United States is therefore merely symptomatic of the rediscovery of retribution, or "just deserts," as a goal of state punishment and the concomitant disillusionment regarding consequentialist justifications of punishment, including general deterrence and rehabilitation (von Hirsch 1976; Allen 1981).
		Once the state prosecutor had become conceptualized as the representative of victims only--reflecting the offenders' exclusion from the community--any new rights that victims acquired were transferred to the prosecutor to strengthen her in the courtroom battle with the still hyperprotected defendant.
		Insofar as state punishment continues to require principled justification and must be more than the infliction of violence by the powerful upon the powerless, the heedless shift of protections from defendants to victims may reach the point of systemic illegitimacy.
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	The justification of the state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the Middle Ages, the most widespread justification of the state was the divine right of kings, which stated that monarchs draw their power from God, and the state should be only an apparatus that puts the monarch's will into practice.
		Later, starting in the Enlightenment, a new justification of the state developed: the social contract.
		The theory of the social contract states that governments draw their power from the governed (from the people), that no person should have absolute power, and that a legitimate state is one which meets the needs and wishes of its citizens.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/The-justification-of-the-state.htm (299 words)

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		In the United States, it also frequently includes those who pursue area studies, that is, who specialize in a particular state of region.
		International relations focuses on the study of the dynamics of relations between states, and, more recently, on transnational issues such as the environment, human trafficking, and social movements.
		In the United States, political scientists known as "Americanists" look at a variety of data including elections, public opinion (on matters ranging from Social Security reform to foreign policy), institutional roles (how the U.S. Congress acts, where congressional power gravitates, how and when the Supreme Court acts, or does not act, etc.).
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	Chapter Four--Primitive Accumulation and the Rise of Capitalism
		The primitive state of free and equal fellows becomes a class State, by an inherent law of development, because in every conceivable mass of men there are, as may readily be seen, strong and weak, clever and foolish, cautious and wasteful ones.
		But the state solved the problem by setting itself up as a middleman, and providing labor-poor parishes with cheap surplus labor from elsewhere, depriving workers of the ability to bargain for better terms on their own.
		In their reliance on the state to enforce unequal exchange, the merchant capitalists were acting in the tradition of their ancestors, the oligarchs who had taken over the artisan guilds and towns in the late Middle Ages, and set themselves up as middlemen between the urban craftsmen and the rural peasants.
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	Political Philosophy
		This conceptual distinction continues to operate in political science, although some political scientists, philosophers, historians and anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outside of its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states which nevertheless must be considered politically.
		According the the sociologist Max Weber, a state is a ruling organization that "successfully upholds the claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force" in the enforcement of order "within a given territorial area."
		See also The justification of the state; Anarchism and natural law theory; Social contract theories; Consequentialist justifications of the state[?]; The purpose of government; Panarchism.
	www.findthelinks.com /politics/Political_philosophy.htm (1280 words)

	Political science biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		International relations focuses on the study of the dynamics of relations between states.
		Elite and mass behavior, and the interplay between them, is studied in the field of political psychology.
		In the United States, political scientists look at a variety of data including elections, public opinion (on matters ranging from Social Security reform to foreign policy), institutional roles (how the U.S. Congress acts, where congressional power gravitates, how and when the Supreme Court acts, or does not act, etc.).
	www.biography.ms /Political_science.html (394 words)

	A. The Expropriation of Land in the Old World
		The effect was as if, in the modern world, the state had expropriated the major property and securities of the charitable foundations, and given them to Fortune 500 corporation; and then created a welfare system at taxpayer expense with incomparably more draconian controls on the poor.
		It is extremely dangerous to encourage mobs in a commercial state like ours, where, perhaps, seven parts out of eight of the whole, are people with little or no property.
		They were due to the State's primary intervention whereby the population of England was expropriated from the land; due to the State's removal of the land from competition with industry for labour.
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		A counterfeit pen is a pen that uses a patented method for the detection of counterfeit United States banknotes.
		The Connecticut-class battleships were the final class of United States Navy pre-dreadnought battleship.
		Consequentialist justifications of the state are in an important
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	No Treason » A Problem For Consequentialist Libertarians
		Conseqently, as a consequentialist, I have determined that it is better to develop and follow rules of behavior that preclude such redistribution schemes, and those rules should be followed with only few exceptions.
		Natural lawyers do not reject the idea that consequentialist justifications are sometimes valid justifications for a practice--the reason, for example, that we go to the doctor when we're sick is that the consequence (healing, one hopes) is better than staying sick.
		Unfortunately for the consequentialist Robin Hood, he has no way of gauging just how much my loose change means to me in comparison to the year of shanty rent it can buy someone who has done nothing to rate having my change- nothing, save for walking around as a fl hole of need.
	www.no-treason.com /archives/2004/04/08/a-problem-for-consequentialist-libertarians (10811 words)

	Politics - Wikipedia
		Today, much study of politics focuses on democracies, and how their form affects the decisions they make.
		Other lines of political inquiry attempt to answer philosophical questions: is there a moral justification for government?
		The justification of the state -- Anarchism and natural law theory -- Social contract theories -- Raw is moral philosophy -- Consequentialist justifications of the state -- The purpose of government
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics (328 words)

	Annotated Bibliography on Freedom of Expression
		The central image of freedom of the press in the United States is a press whose primary function is to support the societal choice for a democratic form of government, but the very government that is established in this scheme will inevitably attempt to suppress speech that threatens its power.
		Consequentialist justifications are valued because they contribute to some desirable state of affairs, including the discovery of truth, accommodation of competing interests, protection of social stability, encouragement of individual autonomy and personal development and promotion of liberal democracy.
		Nonconsequentialist justifications are those that assume protection of speech is desirable in itself, independently of the consequences.
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	Political philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These theorists were driven by two basic questions: by what right or need do people form "states," and what is the best formfor a "state." These large questions involved a conceptual distinction between "state" and "government." Basically, "state"refers to a set of enduring institutions through which power is distributed and its use justified.
		This conceptual distinction continuesto operate in political science, although some politicalscientists, philosophers, historians and cultural anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outsideof its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states which nevertheless must be consideredpolitically.
		Political and economic relations were drastically changed by these views as the guild was subordinated to free trade, and Roman Catholic dominance of theology was increasingly challenged by Protestant churches subordinate to each nation-state andwhich preached in the "vulgar" or native language of each region.
	www.therfcc.org /political-philosophy-901.html (980 words)

	Political philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In addition, the various branches of (A political theory favoring the abolition of governments) anarchism and (A radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions) syndicalism also gained some prominence.
		All political thought was deeply affected by the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression, which led many theorists to reconsider the ideas they had previously held as axiomatic.
		In the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States, President (additional info and facts about Franklin D. Roosevelt) Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the (A reapportioning of something) New Deal.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/political_philosophy.htm (1918 words)

	Sats: The Nordic Journal of Philosophy 2 (2001): 1-18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But that is just the point. It is not the consequences, but the idea that state power may be legitimately used in such ways that seems grossly wrong; instances of such use seem like serious injustices, however modest their actual costs, or even if there is a net gain (95).
		The consequentialist is at a loss to explain what judgments these sentiments reflect.
		In a nutshell, speech is so valuable because it is the canonical manifestation of our essence as human beings and human beings have supreme moral status. I’ll explain the second (slightly) less controversial part of this claim first, and then I’ll sketch some connections between language and species membership and between language and ethics.
	www.umbc.edu /philosophy/dwyer/papers/freespeech.html (1088 words)

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