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Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the WiseStudia Leibnitiana 30 (2): 211-212. 1996.
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52Leibniz’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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147Kant against Hobbes in theory and practiceJournal of Moral Philosophy 4 (2): 194-206. 2007.In the middle section of Theory and Practice, Kant speaks briefly `against Hobbes '; but for a fuller version of Kant's anti-Hobbesianism one must turn to the three Critiques, the Groundwork, and Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. It is in those works that one learns that, for Kant, Hobbes 's notion of `will' as fully determined `last appetite' destroys the freedom needed to take `ought' or moral necessity as the motives for self-determined action; that Hobbes ' s version of the social …Read more
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366 Rousseau's General WillIn The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. pp. 124. 2001.
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40Notice 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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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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Leibniz' Unpublished Remarks on the Abbé Buquoi's Proof of the Existence of GodStudia Leibnitiana 15 (n/a): 215. 1983.
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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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