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50Review Essay on Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3): 716-726. 2007.
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51Review essay on moral animals: Ideals and constraints in moral theory (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3). 2007.
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17My Station and Its VirtuesJournal of Philosophical Research 19 1-8. 1994.This paper compares the central theses of Edmund M. Pincoffs’s Quandaries and Virtues with those of F. H. Bradley’s Ethical Studies. Both Pincoffs and Bradley understand virtues and duties as functional in respect of the common good of the social order. Both reject the individualism of Kantian and utilitarian theories. Both believe that ordinary moral agents do not appeal to and do not need to appeal to the kinds of justification for action defended by such theories. It is argued that the import…Read more
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62Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1): 95-99. 1997.
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311Plain Persons and Moral PhilosophyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1): 3-19. 1992.
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The Nature of the VirtuesIn Roger Crisp & Michael Slote (eds.), Virtue Ethics, Oxford University Press. 1997.
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534Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (review)Journal of Philosophy 87 (12): 708-711. 1990.
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342Partisan or Neutral? The Futility of Public Political TheoryPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 731-734. 2000.
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33Review of Tracy B. Strong: The Idea of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political Time and Space (review)Ethics 101 (4): 878-879. 1991.
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165Review of Tetsuo Najita: Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka. (review)Ethics 98 (3): 587-588. 1988.
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3Praxis and ActionPraxis and Action (review)Review of Metaphysics 25 (4): 737-744. 1972.A second way of obscuring the true relationship between philosophy and the history of philosophy is to convert all philosophers into contemporaries who are offering competing solutions to perennial problems, either in the characteristically British way of treating the great philosophers of the past as though they were candidates for fellowships at Oxford colleges whose confusions were being laid bare at an interview; or in the characteristically French way of seeing existentialism in the most im…Read more
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The Nature of the VirtuesIn Thomas L. Carson & Paul K. Moser (eds.), Morality and the Good Life, Oup Usa. 1997.
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290Charles Taylor and dramatic narrative: Argument and genrePhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 761-763. 2018.
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6Hegel, a Collection of Critical EssaysHazlitt and the Spirit of the AgeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (2): 278. 1972.
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10Herbert Marcuse, an Exposition and a PolemicJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 29 (4): 569. 1971.
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28Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human RightsPolitical Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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20The Wrong Questions to Ask about WarThe Ethics of WarHastings Center Report 10 (6): 40. 1980.Book reviewed in this article: The Ethics of War. By Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill.
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155The Seven Deadly Sins TodayHastings Center Report 9 (2): 28. 1979.Book reviewed in this article: The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil. By Stanford M. Lyman. The Seven Deadly Sins Today. By Henry Fairlie.
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903Cohen, G. A. Why Not Socialism? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009 . Pp. 83. $14.95 (cloth)Ethics 120 (2): 391-395. 2010.
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