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Paul Coates and Daniel D. Hutto, eds., Current Issues in Idealism (review)Philosophy in Review 18 393-396. 1998.
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64Philosophy, Culture, and PluralismThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7 3-8. 2007.In this paper I outline some ways in which philosophy can contribute to the study of culture and pluralism, and how such a study may lead to a better understanding of philosophical enquiry. Building on earlier work (Sweet, 2002), I focus on four areas in which these contributions might be made. The first concerns the methodological, ideological, and historical presuppositions of culture and multiculturalism. The second area considers how philosophical discourse affects a culture's "self-understa…Read more
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12Religion innerhalb der Schranken der Demokratie. Einige Modelle für SüdosteuropaSynthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.
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39Philosophy of Religion TodayIn Sweet William (ed.), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Association of Turkey / Distributed By the Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green, Ohio, Usa). 2006.
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The foundations of ethics and moral practicesIn The Bases of Ethics, Marquette University Press. 2001.
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Religija unutar granica demokracije. Neki modeli za Jugoistočnu Europu / Religion within the Limits of Democracy. Some Models for Southeast Europe / La religion à l’intérieur des limites de la démocratie. Quelques modèles pour l’Europe du Sud-Est / Religion innerhalb der Schranken der Demokratie. Einige Modelle für Südosteuropa (review)Synthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.U radu ću identificirati neke primjere kulturnih sukoba koji uključuju religiju, preispitati neka ponuđena rješenja takvih sukoba, i razmotriti može li religija u bilo kojem smislu biti dio tog rješenja. Također ću ponuditi neke modele religije unutar granica demokracije – modele za koje smatram da su relevantni za demokracije na jugoistoku Europe. U predstavljanju ovih modela, tvrdim da se plodonosan pristup može pronaći u recentnim djelima kanadskog filozofa Charlesa Taylora.In this paper, I i…Read more
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25The Philosophy of History: A Re-Examination (edited book)Ashgate. 2004.As history itself remains disputed ground, it is important to consider what clues history can provide for our response to issues of contemporary concern such as ...
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9William James, the Transcendent, and the''Right to Believe''Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 11 (1): 183-214. 2007.
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12Review of Jean-Luc Barré, Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven_ (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (5). 2006.
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38Ideas Under Fire: Historical Studies of Philosophy and Science in Adversity (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2012.The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity helped shape the ideas that emerged.
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Philosophy of Religion (edited book)Philosophical Association of Turkey / Distributed by the Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA). 2006.
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44Faith as Trust and Belief as Intellectual CredulityPhilosophy and Theology 8 (3): 251-256. 1994.In response to the critique of his work by William Sweet, Hendrik Hart first offers some terminological clarifications. The important difference between ‘faith’ (trust in God) and ‘belief’ (our network of accepted understandings of things, expressed in concepts and propositions) is emphasized and his use of terms such as ‘religion,’ ‘knowledge,’ and ‘truth’ are explained. Hart then clarifies his approach to the Western philosophical tradition. He argues that Christian accommodation to philosophy…Read more
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54British Idealism and its EmpireCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 17 (1): 7-36. 2011.It is generally acknowledged that the British Idealism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a significant influence in the philosophy, politics, and culture of that country. In this study, I argue that it also had a considerable impact throughout much of the English-speaking world, and beyond -- in Canada, Australia, the United States, South Africa, India, and even East Asia. This idealism engaged 'local' philosophical traditions and culture, contributed to them, and sometime…Read more
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7Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (edited book)University of Ottawa Press. 2003.Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights examines the relations and interrelations among theoretical and practical analyses of human rights. Edited by William Sweet, this volume draws on the works of philosophers, political theorists and those involved in the implementation of human rights. The essays, although diverse in method and approach, collectively argue that the language of rights and corresponding legal and political instruments have an important place in conte…Read more
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Maritain TodayPhilosophy and Culture 33 (9): 63-69. 2006.Philosophy has not an easy time after the Second Vatican Council. As a response to this situation, the late Pope John Paul Ⅱ wrote the encyclical "Fides et ratio" and appealed to the Catholics the need for a sound philosophy. One of the philosophers he recommended in his encyclical is the French philosopher Jacques Maritain. Maritain was a prominent figure in philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century. He died in 1973. After a period of relative silence after his death, his works rekindled …Read more
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Review of Kelly James Clark. ed., Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (1): 19-21. 1995.
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24Individuals and Their Rights (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (2): 248-251. 1991.
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The Foundations of Rights in the Political Thought of Bernard BosanquetDissertation, University of Ottawa (Canada). 1994.In 19th century Anglo-American political philosophy, one finds an important debate concerning the nature, source and limits of rights. Two of the dominant views here were the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and J. S. Mill and the rights-based political thought of Herbert Spencer. While there are significant differences between them, both arguably reflect a perspective that is both liberal and individualist. ;A response to these views--one that is sometimes taken to be fundamentally incompatible…Read more
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46Anti-foundationalism, Hendrik Hart and the Nature and Function of Religious BeliefPhilosophy and Theology 8 (2): 167-191. 1993.ln a number of recent essays, Hendrik Hart has elaborated an account of the nature and function of religious belief that, he believes, is post-modern in inspiration and anti-foundationalist in character. ln this paper, I reconstruct what I take to be Hart’s central claims. While Hart does remind us of some important aspects of the nature of religious belief---aspects often overlooked by many critics---l suggest that there are several problems in the account he provides, that there are tensions b…Read more
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Philosophical foundation, cultural and human rights in good faithPhilosophy and Culture 30 (11): 183-194. 2003.
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3Maritain, Just War Theory, and Responding to Campaigns of TerrorMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 24 98-113. 2008.
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14George Francis Mclean and the Council for Research in Values and PhilosophyDialogue and Universalism 15 (7-8): 141-151. 2005.
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