• A Political Conception of Pandemics and Epidemics in Africa 

      Abumere, Frank Aragbonfoh (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019-08-17)
      This chapter is concerned with extra-biological, extra-medical or extra-health factors, namely: actions and inactions (commissions and omissions) that are morally unjust – that is, which are moral injustice – which ultimately cause, enable or contribute to pandemics and epidemics in Africa. Therefore, although this chapter is dealing with health, the framework of the chapter is neither biological ...
    • Utilitarianism 

      Abumere, Frank Aragbonfoh (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      Let us start our introduction to utilitarianism with an example that shows how utilitarians answer the following question, “Can the ends justify the means?” Imagine that Peter is an unemployed poor man in New York. Although he has no money, his family still depends on him; his unemployed wife (Sandra) is sick and needs $500 for treatment, and their little children (Ann and Sam) have been thrown out ...
    • World Government, Social Contract and Legitimacy 

      Abumere, Frank Aragbonfoh (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-22)
      The notion of world government is anathema to most political theorists. This is the case due to the arguments that a world government is infeasible, undesirable and unnecessary. This threefold argument is partly predicated on the assumption that in world politics the larger a geographical and political entity is, the greater the chance of it becoming unstable, ungovernable and, ultimately, illegitimate. ...