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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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4Three. The Departure from General Will: Malebranche on Moral Relations, Order, and OccasionalismIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 99-137. 1987.
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3Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe: Allgemeiner Politischer und Historischer Briefwechsel (review)The Leibniz Review 12 107-121. 2002.The latest volume of Leibniz’s “General Political and Historical Correspondence” in the great Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Edition, covering the period May to December 1699, contains a number of letters bearing on Leibniz’s central practical idea—that “universal” justice, rightly conceived, is a positive, other-aiding caritas sapientis seu benevolentia universalis ; that such justice “contains” or encloses all of the moral virtues; and that it relates to “the common good” or “the perfection of the…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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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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Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the WiseStudia Leibnitiana 30 (2): 211-212. 1996.
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Leibniz' Unpublished Remarks on the Abbé Buquoi's Proof of the Existence of GodStudia Leibnitiana 15 (n/a): 215. 1983.
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