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44On Kant as the Most Adequate of the Social Contract TheoristsPolitical Theory 1 (4): 450-471. 1973.
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Treatise on Nature and Grace (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1992.A scholarly edition of Nicolas Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace by Patrick Riley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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8Malebranche's Moral Philosophy: Divine and Human Justice.'In Steven Nadler (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 220--61. 2000.
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14Leibniz’s Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice, 1703-2003The Leibniz Review 13 67-81. 2003.Leibniz’s Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice is his most important writing on justice as “wise charity” and “universal benevolence” ; we now observe the 300th anniversary of its composition, and a reproduction of part of Leibniz’s manuscript appears in the Appendix to this article. But Leibniz’s essay might with equal justice be called, “Meditation on the Common Notion of Platonism”—for the Méditation opens with a nearly-verbatim paraphrase of Euthyphro 9e-10e, moves on to reduce Hob…Read more
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11A Preface to an Unpublished MS by Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes's LeviathanPolitical Theory 29 (6): 833-833. 2001.
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44Leibniz' universal jurisprudence: justice as the charity of the wiseHarvard University Press. 1996.The text includes fragments of his work that have never before been translated.
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35Leibniz’ “Monadologie” 1714-2014The Leibniz Review 24 1-27. 2014.It is well-known that Leibniz ends and crowns the 1714 “Monadologie” with a version of his notion of jurisprudence universelle or “justice as the charity [love] of the wise:” for sections 83-90 of the Vienna manuscript claim that “the totality of all spirits must compose the City of God . . . this perfect government . . . the most perfect state that is possible . . . this truly universal monarchy [which is] a moral world in the natural world”—a moral world of iustitia in which “no good action wo…Read more
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29How Coherent is the Social Contract Tradition?Journal of the History of Ideas 34 (4): 543. 1973.
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11Two. The General Will under Attack: The Criticisms of Bossuet, Fenelon, and BayleIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 64-98. 1987.
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5One. The General Will Established: From Paul and Augustine to Pascal and MalebrancheIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 1-63. 1987.
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40Michael Oakeshott as a critic of Hobbes's theory of the willRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 1. 2004.Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of Hobbes's Theory of the Will - ABSTRACT: Patrick Riley asks why the post-War Oakeshott stopped speaking of the incoherence of Hobbes’s philosophy of volition, as he had in his Hobbes studies before the War. One answer is that he became more and more sensitive to the necessity of counterbalancing the determinist reading of Hobbes, which tended to be dominant in the 1970s’ Hobbes studies. He cites the example of Thomas Spragens’s The Politics of Motion , according t…Read more
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29Leibniz’ Méditation sur la notion commune de la justiceThe Leibniz Review 15 185-216. 2005.To mark the 300th anniversary of the composition of Leibniz’ most important mature writing on justice, the Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice, I published an interpretation of this work in The Leibniz Review. But Dr. Andreas Blank, dissatisfied with my Platonizing “reading” of the Méditation, published his own commentary in the same Review —treating not just my 2003 article but also my Leibniz’ Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the Wise and several smaller writings f…Read more
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4Leibniz’ Mediterranean Ethics: The Graeco-Roman Foundations of Iustitia Caritas SapientisStudia Leibnitiana 43 (1): 5-23. 2011.
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17Five. The General Will Completed: Rousseau and the Volonté Générale of the CitizenIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 181-250. 1987.
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Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the WiseStudia Leibnitiana 30 (2): 211-212. 1996.
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30Leibniz’ Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice: A Reply to Andreas BlankThe Leibniz Review 15 185-216. 2005.To mark the 300th anniversary of the composition of Leibniz’ most important mature writing on justice, the Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice, I published an interpretation of this work in The Leibniz Review. But Dr. Andreas Blank, dissatisfied with my Platonizing “reading” of the Méditation, published his own commentary in the same Review —treating not just my 2003 article but also my Leibniz’ Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the Wise and several smaller writings f…Read more
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Introduction: Life and Works of Jean-Jacques RousseauIn The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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366 Rousseau's General WillIn The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. pp. 124. 2001.
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11Notice of G.W. Leibniz, Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe, Reihe IV , Band 5, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, forthcoming February 2004 (review)The Leibniz Review 13 167-168. 2003.In a few months’ time the Potsdam branch of the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften will bring out the latest volume of Leibniz’s Political Writings, under the able editorship of Hartmut Rudolph. For Leibniz’s moral-political-juridical philosophy, the most important single item in A IV, 5 will be the “Praefatio” to the Codex Iuris Gentium—the work in which Leibniz first published his celebrated notion that justice is “the charity of the wise” or “universal benevolence”, not just Hobbe…Read more
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41General and particular will in the political thought of Pierre BayleJournal of the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 173-195. 1986.
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