This paper is concerned with economic consequences of unethical governance. A framework is set out, based on principles of Friedrich Nietzsche, that ties poverty and inequality to unethical behavior of the strong toward the weak. The paper contributes to an understanding of why poverty and...

This paper draws on Japanese, British and other material for a comparative analysis of name-calling. Naming the other is a means of identification, helping to establish definitions of self. Definitional power is socially distributed: the power of the mainstream is orchestrated by expert...

The debates referring to the boundaries of freedom (in a context wherein the philosophy of rights has to deal with conservative reactions that evoke duties and obligations, civic responsibility and “political correctness”) represent a new kind of philosophical-legal “fashion”, which...