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Department of
Philosophy
101 Manchester Hall
344 Mansfield Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
06269-2054
Phone: (860) 486-4416
Fax: (860) 486-0387
shelly.burelle@uconn.edu
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Levente Szentkiralyi
Interests
Moral and political theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy -- particularly: self-ownership theory and the extent of compatible individual liberties, distributive justice and the validity of property rights, human rights and social contract theory, normative moral theory, democratic theory, peace and war and their dynamics, international terrorism (state-sponsored and otherwise), the morality of environmental policy and law, philosophical and political anarchism, and the legitimacy of legal systems.
Projects
(1) Reconciling libertarianism’s endorsement of self-ownership with reasonable and necessary restrictions on the extent of self-ownership rights.
(2) Illustrating that the fairest system of democratic governance to which Rawls' "Justice As Fairness" seems committed is one that secures proportional representation of political parties, and promotes a healthy degree of direct democracy--reserving an adequate amount of decision-making authority for the electorate without undermining effective and efficient public policy-making.
History
B.A. Honors, Philosophy and Political Science, Bowling Green State University, 2006
B.S. Honors, Environmental Science, Bowling Green State University, 2006
Visiting Student, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2005
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