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1A comparative study of the philosophies Socrates and of traditional Mahayana Buddhist doctrines finding similarities in epistemology, but differences on its application.
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1Criminal harmsIn Law and Legal Theory, Brill. pp. 149-161. 2013.What is a crime? A common answer is that crimes are harms. One particular argument is that morality forms the connection between crimes and harms: crimes are not any kind of harm, but specifically a kind of immorality. This position is consistent with natural law jurisprudence which claims that law and morality are inseparably linked. It is also consistent with standard defences of retribution whereby punishment is justified where deserved and to the degree deserved. Retributivist desert is pres…Read more
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1A new approach (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 54 110-111. 2011.Review of Martha Nussbaum's book Creating Capabilities
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1Book Reviews Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+183. $19.95 (review)Ethics 116 (2): 442-444. 2006.Thom Brooks reviews Shaprio on democratic theory
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Stephen Houlgate's The Opening Of Hegel's Logic: From Being To Infinity (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 55 195-197. 2007.
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Thom Brooks reviews Colin Tyler, "Thomas Hill Green 1836-1882 And The Philosophical Foundations Of Politics: An Internal Critique" (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 141-144. 2005.Thom Brooks reviews Tyler on TH Green.
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Review Symposium: Hiding from Humanity by Martha NussbaumJournal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 291-349. 2008.
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Intencionálně nový způsob myšlení o volbáchFilosoficky Casopis 52 483-488. 2004.[An intentionally new way of thinking about voting] Voting ethics
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Hegel's Philosophy of right: essays on ethics, politics, and law (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.Hegel's Philosophy of Right presents a collection of new essays by leading international philosophers and Hegel scholars that analyze and explore Hegel's key contributions in the areas of ethics, politics, and the law. The most comprehensive collection on Hegel's Philosophy of Right available Features new essays by leading international Hegel interpreters divided in sections of ethics, politics, and law Presents significant new research on Hegel's Philosophy of Right that will set a new standard…Read more
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Why Political Theory MattersIn Gerry Stoker, B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre (eds.), The relevance of political science, Palgrave. pp. 136-147. 2015.Political theory matters. But why? Unfortunately, this simple claim about the importance of political theory may be controversial. This is because it runs contrary to what we might call a common misconception dominant in many informal circles that real world impact is the stuff of other sub-disciplines in political science and not made to order for political theorists. If we search for examples of politics as practiced, then too often an orthodox perspective for many political scientists is that…Read more
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