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39Review of R. Jay Wallace, Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (12). 2007.
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22Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and VirtueOpen Court Publishing. 2001.The 1990s saw a revival of interest in Kierkegaard's thought, affecting the fields of theology, social theory, and literary and cultural criticism. The resulting discussions have done much to discredit the earlier misreadings of Kierkegaard's works.
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Eschatological ultimacy and the best possible hereafterUltimate Reality and Meaning 25 (1): 36-67. 2002.This paper argues that the eschatological dimension of religion is distinct from other fundamental dimensions, including moral grounding, the ontological basis of reality, and the constitution of persons. It responds in particular to Tibor Horvath's conception of the category of ultimate reality. It also argues that eschatological hereafters imply something akin to an higher-time A-series, in that the hereafter can be conceived as a temporal order beyond currently existing time.
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39A Critical Review of Natural Law and Practical RationalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2): 229-239. 2003.This essay argues that Mark C. Murphy's original contribution to natural law ethics succeeds in finding a way between older metaphysical and newer purely practical approaches in this genre. Murphy's reconstruction of the function argument, critique of subjectivist theories of well-being, and rigorous formulation of a flexible welfarist theory of value deserve careful attention. I defend Kant against Murphy's critique and argue that Murphy faces the problem of showing that all his basic goods are…Read more
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