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210 The Right of Resistance1 (chapt. 16–19)In Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 153-163. 2012.
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38Civil Disobedience and the Duty to Obey the LawIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Definitions Justification and the Duty to Obey.
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20Locke on the Social ContractIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Wiley. 2015.John Locke's name is invariably included on lists of the modern fathers of social contract thought. This chapter begins with a brief discussion on the basics of social contract thought and the specific ways in which Locke's political philosophy participates in the social contract tradition. In Locke's day, and for well over a century before Locke, social contract theories almost always involved historical claims as well, with the precise relationship between the historical and normative wings of…Read more
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25Boundaries of Authority: An introductionPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4). 2019.This is the Introduction to the symposium on A. John Simmons, Boundaries of Authority (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). The Symposium contains articles by David Miller, Cara Nine, and Anna Stilz, and a response by the author.
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9Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity: Findings from TRANSforming the CarolinasJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (3): 443-455. 2022.In this manuscript, “Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity,” Poteat and Simmons outline the legal and policy barriers that impede efforts to end the HIV epidemic among transgender people in the South. They present qualitative and quantitative data from a community engaged research study conducted with transgender adults and other key stakeholders as well as finding from an analysis of policies impacting transgender people in both …Read more
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33Locke on the Death PenaltyPhilosophy 69 (270): 471-. 1994.Brian Calvert has offered us a clear and careful analysis of Locke′s views on punishment and capital punishment. 1 The primary goal of his paper–that of correcting the misperception of Locke as a wholehearted proponent of capital punishment for a wide range of offences–must be allowed to be both laudable and largely achieved in his discussion. But Calvert′s analysis also encourages, I think, a number of serious misunderstandings of Locke′s true position
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14Locke and the Right to PunishIn A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 219-258. 1994.
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Human rights, natural rights, and human dignityIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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15Domestic Attitudes Towards International Jurisdiction over Human Rights ViolationsHuman Rights Review 18 (3): 321-345. 2017.Building on research regarding the influence of national identity salience on attitudes towards international institutions and the impact of nationalism on foreign policy preferences, in a case study of America, I explore the role of chauvinistic nationalism to understand its impact on attitudes towards international jurisdiction of punishment for alleged human rights violations by members of the American military. Using binomial regression of survey responses from the 2014 Cooperative Congressi…Read more
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110Moral Principles and Political ObligationsPrinceton University Press. 1979.Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons, he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?
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35The Limits of Lockean Rights in PropertyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 58 (4): 997-999. 1995.
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44On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of SocietyPrinceton University Press. 1995.This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights. Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations between persons. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. T…Read more
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51Rights and territories: A reply to Nine, Miller, and StilzPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4). 2019.‘Rights and Territories: A Reply to Nine, Miller, and Stilz’ defends the Lockean theory of states’ territorial rights (as this theory was presented in Boundaries of Authority) against the critiques of Nine, Miller, and Stilz. In response to Nine’s concern that such a Lockean theory cannot justify the right of legitimate states to exclude aliens, it is argued that a consent-based theory like the Lockean one is flexible enough to justify a wide range of possible incidents of territorial rights – i…Read more
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17Part 1. nonconsensual relationsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 11-56. 1993.
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4Works citedIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 271-284. 1993.
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2IntroductionIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 1-10. 1993.
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2IndexIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 285-293. 1993.
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12AbbreviationsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . 1993.
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5AcknowledgmentsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . 1993.
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65Review of A. John Simmons: On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society (review)Ethics 106 (1): 197-199. 1995.
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1Obedience to lawIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 918--21. 1992.
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32Review of A. John Simmons: Moral Principles and Political Obligations (review)Ethics 91 (2): 309-312. 1981.
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161Locke on the Death PenaltyPhilosophy 69 (270): 471-. 1994.Brian Calvert has offered us a clear and careful analysis of Locke's views on punishment and capital punishment. The primary goal of his paper - that of correcting the misperception of Locke as a wholehearted proponent of capital punishment for a wide range of offenses - must be allowed to be both laudable and largely achieved in his discussion. But Calvert's analysis also encourages, I think, a number of serious misunderstandings of Locke's true position
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