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105The sovereign in the political thought of hanfeizi and Thomas HobbesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (1): 64-72. 2011.
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37Duns Scotus on the Possibility of an Infinite BeingPhilosophical Topics 13 (9999): 23-29. 1982.THE MAJOR PREMISE OF DUNS SCOTUS'S IMPRESSIVE PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD HAS BEEN NEGLECTED. THAT PREMISE, "THE MOST PERFECT BEING IS INFINITE," IS ESTABLISHED IN TWO WAYS. THE KEY PREMISE IN EACH WAY IS THE PROPOSITION, "POSSIBLY, SOME BEING IS INFINITE." THIS PROPOSITION CANNOT BE PROVEN TO BE TRUE, NOT BECAUSE IT IS IN ANY WAY DUBIOUS OR LACKING IN EVIDENCE, BUT BECAUSE ITS TERMS ARE SIMPLE AND NOT SUBJECT TO PROOF OR FURTHER ANALYSIS. BEING IS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST IMMEDIATE OF CONCEPTS;…Read more
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13Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 2 vols, G. A. J. Rogers and Karl Schuhmann (eds), Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2003 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 349-359. 2005.
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51Morality in the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the law of nature (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1): 125-126. 2011.Sharon Lloyd's new book on Hobbes is one of the most significant in the last twenty-five years. She presents an original thesis about the foundation of Hobbes's moral philosophy, namely, that his basic moral principle is what she calls the "reciprocity theorem": "From our common definition of man as rational, Hobbes argues that we won't count a person as rational unless he can formulate and is willing to offer, at least post hoc, what he regards as justifying reasons for his conduct " . Three fe…Read more
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45Historia ecclesiastica (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3). 2009.This book in effect consists of two parts. The first part contains seven chapters on Historia Ecclesiastica Carmine and related topics, written by Patricia Springborg over many years. While valuable, they will not be discussed here because these have been previously published. The second part is a critical text and translation, on facing pages, of Historia Ecclesiastica by Springborg, Patricia Stablein, and Paul Wilson, accompanied by extensive explanatory and interpretive notes by the same scho…Read more
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15Review of Noel Malcolm, Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (9). 2007.
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30Review of Wayne A. Davis, Meaning, Expression, and Thought, Cambridge (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (10). 2003.
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23LeviathanBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2). 2005.Hobbes' classic work has set the tone for the course of political philosophy through to our own day. This new Broadview edition includes the full text of the 1651 edition, together with a wide variety of background documents that help set the work in context. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology
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74Conversational maxims and some philosophical problemsPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (120): 215-228. 1980.
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60Mozi’s Ideal Political PhilosophyAsian Philosophy 25 (3): 253-274. 2015.The main purpose of this article is to show that the essence of Mozi’s political theory, namely that a civil state is in its best or ideal condition when each citizen exercises universal care, is more defensible than it is usually thought to be. Doing this will require an exposition of the main features of his theory and occasionally reference arguments and considerations outside of Mozi’s text. We interpret the disagreement between Mozi and his alleged Confucian opponents as a disagreement abou…Read more
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56The political philosophy of Thomas HobbesThink 3 (7): 55-60. 2004.Al Martinich explains Hobbes' view on how the rights of the individual are to be balanced against the need for government
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De Corpore, Part I: Computatio Sive LogicaBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (1): 72-77. 1983.
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