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678Diversity and Felicity: Hobbes’s Science of Human FlourishingScience Et Esprit 68 (1): 35-47. 2016.We do not generally take the Hobbesian project to be one that encourages human flourishing. I will argue that it is; indeed, I will propose that Hobbes attempts the first modern project to provide for the possibility of the diversity of human flourishing in the civil state. To do so, I will draw on the recent work of Donald Rutherford, who takes Hobbes to be a eudaimonist in the Aristotelian tradition.
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458Illuminating the Radical Democratic Enlightenment (review)Studies in Social and Political Thought 20 138-141. 2012.
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556Affective Disorders of the State: A Spinozan Diagnosis and CureJournal of East-West Thought 3 (2): 97-120. 2013.The problems of contemporary states are in large part “affective disorders”; they are failures of states to properly understand and coordinate the emotions of the individuals within and in some instances outside the state. By excluding, imprisoning, and marginalizing members of their societies, states create internal enemies who ultimately enervate their own power and the possibility of peace and freedom within the state. Spinoza’s political theory, based on the notion that the best forms of sta…Read more
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