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72Saving One’s Soul or Founding a State: Morality and PoliticsPhilosophia 34 (3): 233-241. 2006.In his essay, ‘The Question of Machiavelli’, Isaiah Berlin notes the depth of Machiavelli's pluralism. Taking my cue from Berlin, I argue that much modern liberal political philosophy neglects this deep pluralism and, as a result, misunderstands modern political problems such as the phenomenon of religiously-motivated terrorism.
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4Harm, offence, and censorshipIn John Horton & Susan Mendus (eds.), Aspects of Toleration: Philosophical Studies, Methuen. 1985.
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42Professor Waldron Goes to WashingtonCriminal Law and Philosophy 8 (1): 123-134. 2014.In Torture, Terror and Trade-Offs: Philosophy for the White House Jeremy Waldron asks how moral philosophy can illuminate real life political problems. He argues that moral philosophers should remind politicians of the importance of adhering to moral principle, and he also argues that some moral principles are absolute and exceptionless. Thus, he is very critical of those philosophers who, post 9/11, were willing to condone the use of torture. In this article I discuss and criticize Waldron’s ab…Read more
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38Defending the bad against the worse: Education and democracyStudies in Philosophy and Education 12 (1): 21-31. 1993.Recent writings in philosophy of education have expressed pessimism about the possibility of educating students to think for themselves. Similarly, recent writings in political philosophy have expressed pessimism about the possibility of attaining democracy. In this paper, I suggest that such pessimism is premature and may be alleviated, if not removed, by interpreting both educational enlightenment and the democratic ideal as processes, rather than end states. They are, moreover, processes whic…Read more
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Out of the Doll's House Reflections on Feminism and AutonomyUniversity of York, Department of Politics. 1998.
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3A Theory of Value and Obligation By Robin Attfield Croom Helm, 1987, 262 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 63 (245): 406-407. 1988.
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11A Theory of Value and Obligation By Robin Attfield Croom Helm, 1987, 262 pp., £30.00 (review)Philosophy 63 (245): 406-. 1988.
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22Tragedy, Moral Conflict, and LiberalismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 40 191-201. 1996.The central question of this paper is how modern liberal political theory can understand and make sense of value pluralism and the conflicts upon which it is premissed. It is a commonplace that liberalism was born out of conflict, and has been partly characterised ever since as a series of attempts to accommodate it within the framework of the nation state . However, it is also true that liberals have proposed many different routes to the resolution, or containment, of conflict, and these differ…Read more
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1Iris Marion M. Young. Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy and PolicyJournal of Applied Philosophy 15 (3): 303-304. 1998.
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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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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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68John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration -- In FocusPhilosophical Quarterly 43 (173): 539. 1993.
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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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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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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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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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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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