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210 The Right of Resistance1 (chapt. 16–19)In Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 153-163. 2012.
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38Civil Disobedience and the Duty to Obey the LawIn R. G. Frey & Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Definitions Justification and the Duty to Obey.
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21Locke on the Social ContractIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Blackwell. 2015.John Locke's name is invariably included on lists of the modern fathers of social contract thought. This chapter begins with a brief discussion on the basics of social contract thought and the specific ways in which Locke's political philosophy participates in the social contract tradition. In Locke's day, and for well over a century before Locke, social contract theories almost always involved historical claims as well, with the precise relationship between the historical and normative wings of…Read more
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26Boundaries of Authority: An introductionPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4). 2019.This is the Introduction to the symposium on A. John Simmons, Boundaries of Authority (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). The Symposium contains articles by David Miller, Cara Nine, and Anna Stilz, and a response by the author.
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10Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity: Findings from TRANSforming the CarolinasJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (3): 443-455. 2022.In this manuscript, “Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity,” Poteat and Simmons outline the legal and policy barriers that impede efforts to end the HIV epidemic among transgender people in the South. They present qualitative and quantitative data from a community engaged research study conducted with transgender adults and other key stakeholders as well as finding from an analysis of policies impacting transgender people in both …Read more
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15Locke and the Right to PunishIn A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 219-258. 1994.
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Human rights, natural rights, and human dignityIn Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao & Massimo Renzo (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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15Domestic Attitudes Towards International Jurisdiction over Human Rights ViolationsHuman Rights Review 18 (3): 321-345. 2017.Building on research regarding the influence of national identity salience on attitudes towards international institutions and the impact of nationalism on foreign policy preferences, in a case study of America, I explore the role of chauvinistic nationalism to understand its impact on attitudes towards international jurisdiction of punishment for alleged human rights violations by members of the American military. Using binomial regression of survey responses from the 2014 Cooperative Congressi…Read more
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112Moral Principles and Political ObligationsPrinceton University Press. 1979.Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons, he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries?
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35The Limits of Lockean Rights in PropertyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 58 (4): 997-999. 1995.
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44On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of SocietyPrinceton University Press. 1995.This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights. Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations between persons. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. T…Read more
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51Rights and territories: A reply to Nine, Miller, and StilzPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4). 2019.‘Rights and Territories: A Reply to Nine, Miller, and Stilz’ defends the Lockean theory of states’ territorial rights (as this theory was presented in Boundaries of Authority) against the critiques of Nine, Miller, and Stilz. In response to Nine’s concern that such a Lockean theory cannot justify the right of legitimate states to exclude aliens, it is argued that a consent-based theory like the Lockean one is flexible enough to justify a wide range of possible incidents of territorial rights – i…Read more
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17Part 1. nonconsensual relationsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 11-56. 1993.
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4Works citedIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 271-284. 1993.
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John Locke’s Two Treatises of GovernmentIn Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter examines John Locke's work entitled Two Treatises of Government. It suggests that this work helped revitalize the social contract tradition by extending the elements of Calvinist political thought, and expanded the modern natural law tradition of Hugo Grotius and Samuel von Pufendorf. The chapter also contends that this work represents Locke's defense of his political philosophy and of the Whig political principles.
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Kantian Functionalism and the Boundary ProblemIn Alan John Simmons (ed.), Boundaries of Authority, Oxford University Press Usa. 2016.Chapter 3 argues that the most prominent contemporary approach to understanding the boundaries of political authority over persons and territories—what is here called Kantian functionalism—cannot in fact locate those boundaries in a plausible way. Appeals to the actual history of political subjection are required for this. Functionalism, however, is disabled by its purely structuralist orientation, an orientation that cannot be corrected by appeals to the authority produced through democratic de…Read more
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2IntroductionIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 1-10. 1993.
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4IndexIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . pp. 285-293. 1993.
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13AbbreviationsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . 1993.
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5AcknowledgmentsIn Christopher W. Morris (ed.), On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society, . 1993.
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Territorial RightsIn Alan John Simmons (ed.), Boundaries of Authority, Oxford University Press Usa. 2016.Chapter 4 examines the possible strategies of moral justification for states’ claims to jurisdictional and property-like authority over a particular geographical territory. It distinguishes nationalist, functionalist, and voluntarist strategies, dividing this last category into Lockean-individualist and plebiscitary voluntarism. All of these strategies are viewed as possible responses to cosmopolitan skepticism on these questions. Nationalism, functionalism, and plebiscitary voluntarism are crit…Read more
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Rights SupersessionIn Alan John Simmons (ed.), Boundaries of Authority, Oxford University Press Usa. 2016.There are several ways in which rights may be lost: by renunciation or “alienation,” through wrongdoing or “forfeiture,” and through “prescription” or the expiration of rights or their expropriation by competing claimants. One form of prescription is “supersession,” where rights are alleged to “fade away” over time to be replaced by others’ claims of right. Chapter 7 is an in-depth examination of the idea of rights supersession. That idea is centrally employed, but inadequately analyzed, in virt…Read more
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Resource RightsIn Alan John Simmons (ed.), Boundaries of Authority, Oxford University Press Usa. 2016.Chapter 8 concerns the property-like rights that states claim to the natural resources in and around their claimed territories. It distinguishes states’ “extended” territorial claims—to the air above, the sea around, and the subsurface domain—from their “core” claims to surface land and water. A central argument is that such extended claims cannot be justified without productive use, except insofar as certain kinds of control are required for the performance of core jurisdictional tasks. The cha…Read more
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1Obedience to lawIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 918--21. 1992.
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