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2Persons, Precepts, and Maritain’s Account of the Universality of Natural LawMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 14 141-165. 1998.
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9Modern political thought from Hobbes to Maritain (edited book)The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2012.
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1Jacques Maritain and the Nature of Religious BeliefMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 10 142-155. 1994.
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Thomas Dean, ed., Religious Pluralism and Truth: Essays on Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (4): 249-250. 1996.
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30Review of Sharad Deshpande (ed.), The Philosophy of G.R. Malkani (review)Sophia 51 (1): 147-149. 2012.
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17Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990, ix + 152 pp. (review)Dialogue 33 (4): 770. 1994.
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Postmodern Epistemologies and the Rationality of Religious BeliefRoczniki Filozoficzne 42 (2): 89. 1994.
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57Schellenberg's Newman Lecture on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: Responses and ReplyToronto Journal of Theology 26 (1): 2010. 2010.
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6Maritain's Criticisms of Natural Law TheoriesMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 12 33-49. 1996.
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37Individual Rights, Communitarianism, and British IdealismSocial Philosophy Today 8 261-277. 1993.
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Religious Pluralism and Justice in the Indian Context: A Christian PerspectiveSouth Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture 3. 1998.
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52Religija unutar granica demokracije. Neki modeli za Jugoistočnu EuropuSynthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.
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God, Sprigge, and idealist philosophy of religionIn Pierfrancesco Basile & Leemon B. McHenry (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, Ontos. 2007.
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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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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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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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Philosophical foundation, cultural and human rights in good faithPhilosophy and Culture 30 (11): 183-194. 2003.
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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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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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Hospitality, Ethics, and MulticulturalismPhilosophia 40 (1). 2012.How is multiculturalism possible in what we call the “postmodern age”? Postmodernity challenges our norms and conventions, our theories of human nature, our grand narratives, and—in general—any essentialist or foundationalist approach. And so it would seem to challenge any attempt to engage in dialogue across cultures or in any way that proposes to be independent of context.One response to this is to focus not on theories but on practices. In particular, I want to focus on the practice of hospit…Read more
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13Religion within the Limits of Democracy. Some Models for Southeast EuropeSynthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.
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