Study, it is not just learning things. It is also to build reflection. And sometimes the character. Except that sometimes it is not enough. And sometimes, in fairness, the circumstances make outset the project more difficult than others . An example this week: the doctoral thesis of Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi. A reading on the sidelines of events in the Middle East very different from the last , this. And here we do not know whether to laugh or cry. Saif is one that alternates last week with his father on our small screens, and promises death to opponents of the regime . But Saif is also the author of a PhD in philosophy from the London School of Economics dated 2008 and titled "The role of civil society in the democratization of international governance institutions" .
Excerpt (p 236, my emphasis, my translation, and posthumous apology to Rawls he quotes extensively and that my translation flays fast in places):
"By contrast, an unjust society, or 'off- the Law is recognized that it "refuses to recognize a reasonable law of peoples ... [and] claims of the totalitarian doctrines that do not recognize geographical limits to the legitimate authority of their religious institutions ... or their philosophical positions. " Examples would be companies that are aggressive toward other companies or that violate fundamental human rights of those who would serve in . In this case, Rawls grants that intervention may be justified: 'The people ordained can exert pressure on regimes living outside the law to induce them to change their practices, but alone, this pressure is unlikely to succeed . It must be supported by a refusal resolved all military aid and any assistance be it economic or otherwise; states outlaw should not be accepted by the people ordained as respectable members of their practice of cooperation based on mutual benefit '. (...)
In rejecting the idea that the state law-breakers should be allowed to continue without being arrested, this thesis agrees with Rawls . "
Obviously, the contrast with its current positions is striking. This is not funny, of course. And yes, it is understandable that his former teachers have focused on the opportunity to introduce a little reason in Libya, although it is obviously very embarrassing for them that has so badly . And also embarrassing there is also a history of sub , they have meanwhile returned. And certainly students who demonstrated for their university sever all links with the Libyan regime did well. And ok, there are also accusations of plagiarism , yet (to my knowledge) not confirmed by the LSE.
No, it's not funny. But frankly, a son Gaddafi defended the idea that a state law-breakers should be stopped by the international community? He did not say so ...
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