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36John Locke: The philosopher as Christian virtuoso (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 650-652. 2019.Volume 27, Issue 3, May 2019, Page 650-652.
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28And Who is My Neighbor? Kant on Misanthropy and Christian LoveHeythrop Journal 60 (2): 219-232. 2019.
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22Imperatives of RightInternational Philosophical Quarterly 58 (3): 311-329. 2018.The relationship between Kant’s “Doctrine of Right” and his broader moral philosophy is a fraught one, with some readers insisting that the two domains are mutually supporting parts of a cohesive practical philosophy and others arguing for their conceptual and legislative independence. In this paper I investigate the reasons for this disparity and argue that both main interpretive camps are mistaken, for Kant’s Rechtslehre can neither be reconciled to his moral philosophy nor stand on its own. I…Read more
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74God, Mixed Modes, and Natural Law: An Intellectualist Interpretation of Locke's Moral PhilosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (6): 1111-1132. 2013.The goal of this paper is to explicate the theological and epistemological elements of John Locke's moral philosophy as presented in the ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ and ‘The Reasonableness of Christianity’. Many detractors hold that Locke's moral philosophy is internally inconsistent due to his seeming commitment to both the intellectualist position that divinely instituted morality admits of pure rational demonstration and the competing voluntarist claim that we must rely for our mor…Read more
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