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36Individual 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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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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52Religija unutar granica demokracije. Neki modeli za Jugoistočnu EuropuSynthesis Philosophica 27 (2): 257-268. 2012.
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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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2Maritain, 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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Rationality and the Humanities and Social SciencesIndian Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 257. 1994.
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4Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and DemocracyMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 25 3-19. 2009.In this paper I focus on one of the fundamental democratic freedoms – freedom of conscience – and see to what extent Catholicism is compatible or consistent with it and, by extension, with democracy in civil or political institutions. I draw primarily on recent ecclesial statements on the issue, but also on the philosophical views of Jacques Maritain. First, I outline briefly the view of democracy and freedom of conscience that putatively undergirds modern democratic societies, as well as the un…Read more
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3Migrating Texts and Traditions (edited book)University of Ottawa Press. 2012.This volume examines the phenomenon of the migration of philosophical texts and traditions into other cultures, identifies places where it may have succeeded, but also where it has not, and discusses what is presupposed in introducing a text or a tradition into another intellectual culture. -- Book Jacket.
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Intelligent design, science, and religionIn Manimala, Varghese & J. (eds.), Fides Et Ratio in a Post-Modern Era: Indian Philosophical Studies, Xiii, Council For Research in Values and Philosophy. 2008.
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The Metaphysical and Epistemological Foundations of Natural Law in Jacques MaritainPhilosophy and Culture 33 (9): 83-98. 2006.Ethical theory today is dominated by utilitarianism and by deontological theories . We also find, though to a much lesser extent, virtue ethics, feminist 'care' theories , social contract theories, and rights-based theories. But often missing from the discussion-and from most ethics textbooks-is natural law theory. Natural law theory has a long history, starting with the Stoics. It is influential outside of the Anglo-American world , and it has its powerful defenders today . But nevertheless it …Read more
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31Empiricism, fideism and the nature of religious beliefSophia 31 (3): 1-15. 1992.Earlier versions of this paper were read to the Departments of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick and at Saint Francis Xavier University and to the Canadian Societh for the Study of Religion at Queen’s University, Kingston. The authors wish to thank the participants for their comments
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16Rethinking the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age (edited book)Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2009.
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49Political Obligation in a Liberal State (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1): 102-105. 1992.
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6BibliographyIn Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, University of Toronto Press. pp. 297-308. 2005.
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“馬里旦自然律之形上學與知識論基礎” [The Metaphysical and Epistemological Foundations of Natural Law in Jacques Maritain]Philosophy and Culture 33 (9): 15-33. 2006.Today's ethical theory , both utilitarian and non-ontological theories dominated. However, we found that many of its subsequent development in the evolution of those who encourage virtue ethics, feminist care theory, social contract theory and the theory of rights-based build. But usually lacking in this discussion - the teaching of ethics by the majority of it seems - is the natural law theory. Natural law theory has its very long history, starting from the Stoic school, it had occupied in the …Read more
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