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Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation (2014)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 5(3), 874 -894

Usually associated with a view of freedom as absolute, Sartre’s philosophy seems particularly able to account for the indeterminacy that we experience today in most areas of human experience that have a normative dimension. Without denying that this... Read More about Existentialist Freedom, Distorted Normativity and Emancipation.

Normative Theory (2014)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2014). Normative Theory. In The Encyclopaedia of Political Thought. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0716

Imagine a group of persons that form a society or a political community. It is most likely these persons relate to each other in their everyday dealings on the basis of certain common standards. A descriptive, as opposed to a normative, theory of the... Read More about Normative Theory.

Kant’s Justification of Welfare (2014)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. (2014). Kant’s Justification of Welfare. Diametros: A Journal of Philosophy, 39, https://doi.org/10.13153/diam.39.2014.563

For several decades, theorists interested in Kant’s discussion of welfare have puzzled over Kant’s position on the issue of the redistribution of goods in society. They have done this both in order to clarify his position and as a source of inspirati... Read More about Kant’s Justification of Welfare.