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Professor Tatia Lee, Professor and Chair of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) .Founded in 1982, the Academy of Social Sciences is
Human dignity and modern Ireland
Ideas of dignity are central to questions of life and death, including in public policy and legislation, such as the Dignity with Dying Bill being considered by the Oireachtas. Leading academic and author Professor John Loughlin, in a piece written for QUBCatholic, the Catholic Chaplaincy at Queen s University s blog, reflects on the concept of human dignity in the modern Irish context Ideas of human dignity are appealed to by advocates of assisted suicide 22 April, 2021 02:00
Prof John Loughlin
THE term human dignity is a key concept in modern conventions of human rights such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN and in some constitutions such as the German Basic Law.
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Lambert here: A dense treatment of a subject of burning concern.
By Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and co-founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Subjects of recent books include basic income, rentier capitalism and the growing precariat. He is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum. Originally published at Open Democracy.
Transformations tend to go through several preliminary phases. In Britain, the ‘dis-embedded’ phase in the development of industrial capitalism involved the Speenhamland system launched in 1795, the mass enclosures that created a proto-proletariat, and disruption by a technological revolution. All this prompted a period of primitive rebels – those who know what they are against, but not agreed on what they are for – in which protests were mainly against the breakdown of the previous social compact.