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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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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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96Fischer and Ravizza on moral sanity and weakness of willThe Journal of Ethics 6 (3). 2002.This essay evaluates John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza's mature semi-compatibilist account of moral responsibility, focusingon their new theory of moderate reasons-responsiveness as a model of "moral sanity." This theory, presented in _Responsibility and Control_, solves many of the problems with Fischer's earlier weak reasons-responsiveness model, such as its unwanted implication that agents who are only erratically responsive to bizarre reasons can be responsible for their acts. But I argue…Read more
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36A global federalist paper: Consolidation arguments and transnational government (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 42 (3): 353-375. 2008.
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