Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- "Rights" discourse -- Structural impediments to consistent application of "universal" human rights -- The enlarged view of rights in contemporary constitutions and human rights conventions : the notion of defeasible rights -- Litigation involving a conflict of rights, each of equal value -- The epistemology of judicial decision making -- The unsuccessful attempt to find a philosophical "North Star" to aid in judicial decision making -- The use of balancing tests and factor analysis : the inevitable tendency to resort to bright-line tests -- An overview of case-by-case adjudication, its possible goals, and the influence of legal traditions -- The optimal conditions for case-by-case adjudication and its limits -- Case-by-case adjudication of contentious human rights controversies -- What if we must choose?…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Writing the self -- Groundwork for a study of autobiography -- Writing the examined life -- The rationale for autobiographical writing -- Autobiography as confession -- Features of autobiographical writing -- Conclusions -- Bifurcating the self -- Self-ascription and self-description -- The inner self -- The outer self -- Conclusions -- Masking the self -- Deception and concealment -- Knowledge and truth in autobiography -- Self-deception -- Self-concealment -- Self-masking -- Conclusions -- Tranforming the self -- The dialectic of philosophical autobiography -- Interpretation and understanding -- Gracia on interpretation -- Gadamer on truth in interpretation -- Nietzsche and the subversion of the self…”