Savulescu and Cameron supported selectively locking down the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic on two grounds: first, that preserving total lockdown would entail levelling down and, second, that levelling down is wrong. Their first assumption has been thoroughly addressed, but more can be said about their wider antiegalitarian point that levelling down is simply wrong. Egalitarians are not defenceless against the levelling-down objection. Even though some consider it the most serious challenge to supporters of equality, egalitarianism possesses sound reasons to (...) assert, not only that something valuable is preserved when we level down, but also that preserving it may be, in certain circumstances, preferable to pursuing other fundamental moral goals. Although troublesome from a well-being maximising standpoint, levelling down ensures that healthcare policy reflects a commitment with the idea that people are equal in moral worth. That commitment is important enough to trump certain improvements in individual well-being. In the case of pandemic lockdowns, not all the interests protected by free movement are as fundamental as to pursue them at the cost of equality. Savulescu and Cameron’s framework is so reliant on the view that levelling down is wrong that it fails to account for the valuable loss that having the elderly suffer alone represents. (shrink)

Este texto pretende aclarar cuáles y de qué tipo son los compromisos adquiridos por un hablante en la aseveración; se caracterizan los compromisos aseverativos como actitudes prácticas relacionadas directamente con las razones. El texto tiene tres momentos: en el primero, se muestra el desarrollo de la idea de aseveración como acto de habla y se evidencia que desde sus primeras concepciones la cuestión del compromiso del hablante desempeña un papel importante; en el segundo, mediante una comparación con la promesa, se (...) esclarece de qué tipo son los compromisos que adquiere un hablante a la hora de hacer una aseveración, se introducen las nociones de compromisos primarios y secundarios y se aplican específicamente al caso de los compromisos aseverativos; finalmente, en el tercero, se muestra en qué sentido estos compromisos aseverativos pueden ser entendidos como actitudes prácticas. (shrink)

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This paper introduces the concept of assisted dialogue as a scaffolding tool for academic writing management shared for teachers and postgraduate students. The concept is characterized and examples of this type of intervention aimed at understanding general questions of educational research and the production of academic texts are presented.

Juan Francisco Manrique Bogotá, Uniminuto, 2012. pp. 133.