Human Rights Protection & Value Education for Societal Progress
Human Rights Redressal Mechanisms
Human rights are universal entitlements, ensuring every individual can live with dignity, freedom, and equality. Yet across the globe, these rights are too often violated—whether by a state overstepping its authority or by non-state actors acting with malicious intent. Redressal mechanisms form the backbone of accountability, offering both legal recourse and societal remediation when violations occur. This document examines how violations by the State, by private
Read MoreKant’s Philosophy: Understanding, A Priori Concepts, and Judgments
Kant’s Transcendental Analytic: Understanding and Concepts
The Transcendental Analytic is a crucial section where Immanuel Kant explains the faculty of understanding, which, alongside sensitivity, constitutes human knowledge. While understanding and sensitivity are distinct faculties, they always act together. The understanding allows us to comprehend what sensitivity offers. We understand when we can subsume objects under a concept. Thus, for Kant, understanding is the power of concepts or judgments.
Read MoreJudicial Justification: Internal, External, and Interpretation
Understanding Legal Justification
Justification, in a broad sense, refers to a system of rules—be they ideal, moral, or positive (current in society)—that applies not only to law but also to religious, moral, or corporate contexts. Initially, we will focus on justification within the legal system.
In principle, a judge is obligated to justify decisions under the law, unlike other systems, because the judge functions as an operator of law. Legal arguments differ significantly from moral arguments.
Read MoreOrigins of Western Philosophy in Greece
Western philosophy emerged in the Greek colonies of Asia Minor, around the sixth century BCE. Previously, rational knowledge, such as astronomy or geometry, existed in Egypt. However, it was in Greece where the first thinkers sought a rational explanation for both natural phenomena and human behavior.
From Mythos to Logos
Philosophy was born as a criticism against traditional knowledge and myths. Although it addressed similar questions, it did so from a very different perspective: that of logical
Read MoreMastering Principled Negotiation: Strategies for Mutual Gain
Understanding Negotiation: Principles and Pitfalls
Key Elements of Negotiation
- Communication: Style, Effectiveness, Tactic
- Relationship: Tone, Approach
- Interests: Seller, Buyer
- Options: Different options they give
- Legitimacy: Market-based standards
- Commitment: Compromiso
- BATNA: Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (Seller, Buyer)
- Final Reflection: Type of negotiation
Core Principles of Principled Negotiation
- Separate the People from the Problem: Focus on communication.
- Focus on Interests, Not Positions:
David Hume’s Philosophy: Empiricism, Knowledge, Morality
David Hume’s Philosophy
Knowledge and Perception
David Hume’s philosophy aims to provide answers to fundamental questions about human nature and knowledge. Key tenets include:
- All knowledge originates from experience.
- All ideas must be traceable to impressions.
- All knowledge is a combination of ideas remaining in the mind, which are caused by impressions.
- Knowledge consists of established truths.
Having established that all knowledge comes from experience, Hume distinguishes two types of perceptions:
- Simple