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141Jean Jacques RousseauStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. forthcoming.Jean-Jacques Rousseau remains an important figure in the history of philosophy, both because of his contributions to political philosophy and moral psychology and because of his influence on later thinkers. Rousseau's own view of philosophy and philosophers was firmly negative, seeing philosophers as the post-hoc rationalizers of self-interest, as apologists for various forms of tyranny, and as playing a role in the alienation of the modern individual from humanity's natural impulse to compassio…Read more
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DAVION, V. and WOLF, C.(eds.)-The Idea of Political Liberalism: Essays on RawlsPhilosophical Books 44 (1): 81-82. 2003.
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30Self-Effacing HobbesianismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94. 19934.Christopher Bertram; II*—Self-Effacing Hobbesianism†, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 19–34, https://doi.org/10.
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97It is often claimed that states enjoy, as a consequence of their sovereign status, the right to control the passage of outsiders through their territory and that they have a discretion to admit or to refuse to admit outsiders, whether those outsiders be tourists, business travelers, would-be economic migrants, or even refugees. Or, to be more exact, such limitations on that right to control are derived from the agreement of states to treaties and conventions, agreement which they could have with…Read more
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2Global justice, moral development, and democracyIn Gillian Brock & Harry Brighouse (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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29Christopher BertramIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge companion to social and political philosophy, Routledge. pp. 82. 2013.
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21Why Rousseau still mattersThe Philosophers' Magazine 47 34-42. 2009.It would be a mistake to draw the conclusion that Rousseau believes that we should simply disregard what others think and depend entirely and narcissistically on our own evaluation of ourselves and our merits. Once self-love is loose in the world, it is an inescapable feature of our psychology. It is something that it is difficult to tame, but it has to be done.
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44Rousseau and ethicsIn Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter demonstrates that Rousseau sets out no systematic moral theory of his own but rather a series of theories about other matters which contain remarks and opinions relevant to ethics, beginning with a discussion of his theory of psychological development. It then explores a number of possible answers to the questions: what, according to Rousseau is morality, and why should we be moral? Next, the chapter explains the meaning of Rousseau's natural goodness thesis. It presents two main ac…Read more
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1Exploitation and Future GenerationsIn Axel Gosseries & Lukas H. Meyer (eds.), Intergenerational Justice, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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41Property in the moral life of human beingsSocial Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2): 404-424. 2013.Liberal egalitarian political philosophers have often argued that private property is a legal convention dependent on the state and that complaints about taxation from entitlement theorists are therefore based on a conceptual mistake. But our capacity to grasp and use property concepts seems too embedded in human nature for this to be correct. This essay argues that many standard arguments that property is constitutively a legal convention fail, but that the opposition between conventionalists a…Read more
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |