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34An unpublished MS of Leibniz on the allegiance due to sovereign powersJournal of the History of Philosophy 11 (3): 319-336. 1973.
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31Leibniz’ “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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28Leibniz’ 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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28The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.This rich collection will introduce students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract political thinkers Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . A dozen essays and book excerpts have been selected to guide students through the texts and to introduce them to current scholarly controversies surrounding the contractarian political theories of these three thinkers
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26How Coherent is the Social Contract Tradition?Journal of the History of Ideas 34 (4): 543. 1973.
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22A Preface to an Unpublished MS by Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes's LeviathanPolitical Theory 29 (6): 833-833. 2001.
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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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15In Memoriam: Michael Oakeshott, 1901-1990: The Voice of Michael Oakeshott in the Conversation of MankindPolitical Theory 19 (3): 334-335. 1991.
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14The General Will: Rousseau’s Debt to the Theological Controversies of the Preceding CenturyArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 69 (3): 241-268. 1987.
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12Books in review : Hegel et le siècle Des lumières edited by Jacques D'Hondt. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2nd impression, 1978. Pp. 183 (review)Political Theory 7 (4): 559-562. 1979.
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12Leibniz’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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9Two. 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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7Malebranche's Moral Philosophy: Divine and Human Justice.'In Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 220--61. 2000.
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6The "Place" of Politics in Kant's Practical PhilosophyProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 267-278. 1989.
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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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5Rousseau's Political Philosophy: An Interpretation From WithinPhilosophical Review 87 (2): 291. 1978.
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5Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1): 155-183. 1999.The Cambridge Companion to Humanism. Jill Kraye. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 320. £35.00 hbk, £12.95 pbk. ISBN 0–521–43038–0, 0–521–43624–9. Scepticism in the History of Philosophy ‐ A Pan‐American Dialogue. Edited by Richard H. Popkin. Dordrecht‐Boston‐London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. pp. xxii + 285, hbk, £99.00, ISBN 0–7923–3769–7 Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. David B. Ruderman. Yale Univ…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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4Four. The General Will Socialized: The Contribution of MontesquieuIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 138-180. 1987.
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