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37Book Review: Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian LeiterWhy Tolerate Religion? By LeiterBrian, Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 187 + xv (review)Political Theory 41 (5): 766-769. 2013.
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19Contingency in Political PhilosophyPhilosophia 45 (2): 477-486. 2017.The paper examines John Horton’s realist political theory, in particular his critique of John Rawls’s “high” or “liberal moralism”, and seeks to determine the extent to which, together with Horton, we would have reasons to leave Rawls’s and other Rawlsian accounts behind. The paper argues that some of the insights of Horton’s realism are mistaken, whereas many of those which are not mistaken are compatible with liberal moralism correctly understood. The argument is also formulated in terms of co…Read more
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33Forgiveness and revenge by Trudy Govier London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 205+X, £14.99 (review)Philosophy 79 (1): 146-149. 2004.
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68John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration -- In FocusPhilosophical Quarterly 43 (173): 539. 1993.
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13Pluralism and scepticism in a disenchanted worldIn Maria Baghramian & Attracta Ingram (eds.), Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity, Routledge. pp. 103. 2000.
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1Alasdair Macintyre : After virtue and afterIn John P. Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), After Macintyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair Macintyre, University of Notre Dame Press. 1994.
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54Life's ethical symphonyJournal of Philosophy of Education 42 (2): 201-218. 2008.Most modern moral theories are impartialist in character. They perceive the demands of morality as standing in opposition to partial concerns and acting as constraints upon them. In this paper I argue that our partial concerns in general, and our love and concern for others in particular, are not ultimately at odds with the demands of morality, impartially understood, but are the necessary preconditions of our being motivated by impartial morality. If we are to care about morality, we must first…Read more
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12The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life (edited book)Duke University Press. 2000.In _The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life _Susan Mendus gathers a group of distinguished public figures—philosophers, historians, lawyers, and religious leaders—to reflect on a core issue within contemporary political debate. At the close of a century that will be remembered for its two world wars and its eruptions of genocide, the contributors examine the importance of an insistence on tolerance and the dangers of its lack, both historically and in the present day. How can toleration be fos…Read more
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3Autonomy and Self Respect By Thomas E. HillJr. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 218 pp., £27.50, £9.95 paper (review)Philosophy 67 (262): 561-563. 1992.
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39All the King's horses and all the King's men: Justifying higher educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (2). 1992.ABSTRACT This article addresses the question‘What is the justification of higher education in modern society?’ It takes issue with writers such as Alasdair Macintyre and Allan Bloom, who argue that the fragmentation of value characteristic of modernity has undermined the possibility of providing a coherent justification of higher education. Against MacIntyre and Bloom, I argue that we should understand education as a means of developing reflective consciousness in students, and that that will re…Read more
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142On toleration (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1987.Is toleration a requirement of morality or a dictate of prudence? What limits are there to toleration? What is required of us if we are to promote a truly tolerant society? These themes--the grounds, limits, and requirements of toleration--are central to this book, which presents the W.B. Morrell Memorial Lectures on Toleration, given in 1986 at the University of York. Covering a wide range of practical and theoretical issues, the contributors--including F.A. Hayek, Maurice Cranston, and Karl Po…Read more
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15Other Human Beings By David Cockburn London: Macmillan, 1990, 240 pp., £40.00 (review)Philosophy 66 (258): 529-. 1991.
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IntroductionIn John Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies, Methuen. 1985.
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12Book Review:Morality Within the Limits of Reason. Russell Hardin (review)Ethics 101 (1): 183-. 1990.
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Jean Hampton, The Authority of ReasonInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 8 (2): 256-258. 2000.
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23The magic in the pronoun myIn Matt Matravers (ed.), Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Frank Cass. pp. 33-52. 2002.In What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon says that any acceptable moral teory must answer what he calls the priority question: the question of why moral value should takes priority over other values, such as the values of love and friendship. In this essay I discuss Scanlon's answer to the priority question and contrast it with the answer offered by Christine Korsgaard in Sources of Normativity. I argue that each account contains important insights but that neither is completely satisfactory. …Read more
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