Personal Rights and Buddhism

Rights, centers, and peripheries: experimental moves in Japanese Buddhism

Correspondence: [email protected] Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland, OR 97219, USA Abstract In this paper I examine how the Japanese True Pure Land Buddhist school (Jōdo Shinshū or Shin Buddhism) has attempted to come to terms with the position of temple wife (bōmori), which has historically been a local position based solely on marriage ties to the resident priest of...

Personal Identity, Individual Autonomy and Group Rights

It is a commonplace in liberal circles that individual persons have a right to individual autonomy or self-determination. Each mentally competent adult has a right to be at liberty to live and shape their own life in accordance with their own view about what makes for a good life, free from undue coercion or interference by others, so long as they do not harm others. In the words of John Stuart...

Personal Rights Management- Enabling Privacy Rights in Digital Online Content

With ubiquitous use of digital cameras, e.g. in mobile phones, privacy is no longer threatened by governments and companies only. A new threat exists by people, who take photos of unaware people with no risk and little cost anywhere in public and private spaces. Fast distribution via online communities and web pages expose an individual’s private life to the public. Social and legal measures ar...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

Digital Rights Management for Personal Networks

The thesis is concerned with Digital Rights Management (DRM), and in particular with DRM for networks of devices owned by a single individual. This thesis focuses on the problem of preventing illegal copying of digital assets without jeopardising the right of legitimate licence holders to transfer content between their own devices, which collectively make up what we refer to as an authorised do...