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19Levinas's Agapeistic Metaphysics of Morals: Absolute Passivity and the Other as Eschatological HierophanyJournal of Religious Ethics 26 (2). 1998.This article evaluates Emmanuel Levinas's novel "ethical metaphysics" of interpersonal relations from a religious perspective. Levinas presents a unique version of agape ethics that can be evaluated in terms of a number of the dilemmas that have traditionally attended Christian discussions of neighbor-love. Because Levinas's analysis makes our responsibility for other persons depend on their eschatological significance, it has the same problems that hamper all theories of neighbor-love that lack…Read more
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18Review of Terence Cuneo (ed.), Religion and the Liberal Polity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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17National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe,"(1) Habermas's specific theme is the `legitimation crisis' arising from the current situation within the European Community.(2) But the deeper philosophical point of the article is to develop a fundamental implication of Habermas's analysis of democracy in his new work, Between Facts and Norms (in which the article is included as an appendix):(3) Habermas argues that the normative content of democratic citizenship can be institutionalize…Read more
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17Kierkegaard 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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16Reason, Tradition, and the Good: MacIntyre’s Tradition-Constituted Reason and Frankfurt-School Critical Theory, written by Jeffrey L. NicholasJournal of Moral Philosophy 12 (4): 569-572. 2015.
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16Four Moral Grounds for the Wide Distribution of Capital Endowment GoodsQuaestiones Disputatae 8 (1): 21-56. 2017.This article argues for a social proviso concerning capital endowments that is analogous to Locke's original proviso on access to productive natural capital.
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14Rudd, Anthony., Self, Value, and Narrative: A Kierkegaardian Approach (review)Review of Metaphysics 67 (4): 886-888. 2014.
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13Love, reason, and will: Kierkegaard after Frankfurt (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.An introduction to the philosophy of love, bridging analytic and continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, through the writings of Harry G. Frankfurt and S.ren Kierkegaard.
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13Tradition(s) (review)The Owl of Minerva 32 (1): 65-82. 2000.Tradition must rank as one of the ten most important works within the hermeneutic tradition to be published in the 1990s, alongside recent books by Jean-Luc Nancy, Drucilla Cornell, Simon Critchley, John Caputo, Paul Ricoeur, and Jacques Derrida. In Tradition, Stephen Watson, who is influenced by Heidegger, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Alasdair MacIntyre, works out a historical hermeneutics with obvious connections to their views, but that also stakes out a different position "between" t…Read more
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12In the 21st century, as the peoples of the world grow more closely tied together, the question of real transnational government will finally have to be faced. The end of the Cold War has not brought the peace, freedom from atrocities, and decline of tyranny for which we hoped. It is also clearer now that problems like economic risks, tax havens, and environmental degradation arising with global markets are far outstripping the governance capacities of our 20th century system of distinct nation-s…Read more
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12Natural Law and Practical Rationality by Mark C. MurphyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2; ISSU 170): 229-240. 2003.
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12A Phenomenology of the Profane: Heidegger, Blumenberg and the Structure of the ChthonicJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 30 (2): 182-206. 1999.
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10I will argue that there is a better position which is more religiously inclusive than "political liberalism" as conceived by Rawls or Audi, but which maintains a principled distance from Quinn's radical inclusivism. (2) In section I, I analyze Quinn's argument for radical inclusivism and pose an initial objection to it. In section II, I turn to the question of how democratic legitimation is to be conceived. After outlining the `civic virtue' or `deliberative' interpretation of democratic institu…Read more
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9Patrick Stokes, The Naked Self: Kierkegaard and Personal Identity. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xviii + 231 pp, with 23 pages of bibliography and index (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99 (4): 468-473. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 99 Heft: 4 Seiten: 468-473.
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8In Defense of the Responsibility to Protect: A Response to WeissmanCriminal Justice Ethics 35 (1): 39-67. 2016.This article defends the Responsibility to Protect doctrine against critiques by Fabrice Weissman in this journal, and against similar criticisms of humanitarian intervention and human rights norms made by postmodern thinkers in the Nietzschean tradition, such as Alain Badiou and Anne Orford. I argue against Weissman that R2P can be effective in stopping or preventing mass atrocities, and in particular that opposition to military intervention in Syria during the 2013 debates was a terrible mista…Read more
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49. The Virtues of Ambivalence: Wholeheartedness as Existential Telos and the Unwillable Completion of NarravivesIn John Lippitt & Patrick Stokes (eds.), Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 144-160. 2015.
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4Freedom, Will, and NatureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 81 67-89. 2007.
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3Deontology and the Antinomy of Libertarianism: A Response to James SterbaSocial Philosophy Today 12 177-218. 1996.
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2Norm-guided formation of cares without volitional necessity : a response to FrankfurtIn Michael Kühler & Nadja Jelinek (eds.), Autonomy and the Self, Springer. 2012.
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2Feature book review-the will: A dual aspect theory, -Brian O'ShaughnessyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2): 259. 2011.
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The essence of eschatology: A modal interpretationUltimate Reality and Meaning 19 (3): 206-239. 1996.This paper argues that eschatology is defined by a combination of sacred cosmogonic power and moral requirement. Moralizing religion is this combination, which claims to ground a distinctive kind of possibility (possible hereafter states). Eschatology has certain features that hold in all of its forms, with variations in whether the hereafter is conceived as a timeless and body-less eternity, or a more temporal and concrete existence. The paradigm for this analysis is found in Soren Kierkegaard'…Read more
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Accidental devotion and gratitude : Kierkegaard in my life-storyIn Robert L. Perkins, Marc Alan Jolley & Edmon L. Rowell (eds.), Why Kierkegaard matters: a festschrift in honor of Robert L. Perkins, Mercer University Press. 2010.
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'entangled Freedom': Ethical Authority and Choice in Kierkegaard's Concept of AnixietyKierkegaardiana 21. 2000.
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Self and Will: An Existential Theory of Motivation and Frankfurt's Theme of IdentificationDissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1998.This dissertation develops a new account of the will as a motivational power of commitment or resolve, which contrasts with volition in the 'thin' sense as a mere decision to form an intention. After tracing the historical background of these concepts in Chapter I, Chapter II argues that will involves the capacity to motivate oneself "projectively" in devotion to causes and purposes for which one did not necessarily have an antecedent "desire." "Projective motivation" differs from three types of…Read more
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Online Exclusive: For A Federation Of DemocraciesEthics and International Affairs 23 (1). 2009.Davenport argues for a federation of democracies to replace the United Nations Security Council. This new level of government, he says, is necessary to achieve the international cooperation needed to manage a global economy and address global problems
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