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Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. These essays examine both Socrates' and modern political philosophers' attempts to answer the question of the right life for human beings, as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor
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46The moral economy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Agent sovereignty, customary law and market conventionThe European Legacy 12 (1): 39-54. 2007.The ethical authority carried in the conventions of fairness and human well-being has been widely adopted under the idea of “moral economy,” forming an eclectic and interdisciplinary debate. Significant, though external to this debate, is a corpus of medieval thought which exhibits a fundamental interest in legitimate market protocols, and the political rights and obligations of agents in relation to the common good of the community. This article asserts the imperative status of a customary basi…Read more
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12Corporate Responses to Community Grievance: Voluntarism and Pathologies of PracticeJournal of Business Ethics 189 (1): 55-68. 2024.Grievance landscapes form in rapidly industrialising contexts where social and environmental impacts are inevitable. This paper focuses on the complex operational and organisational settings in which grievances arise and the industrial pathologies that form around resource development projects. The arguments draw on classic and contemporary literature on “grievance”, “right” and “entitlement”, and the authors’ own sustained engagement with global mining companies and local communities. Our conte…Read more
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37Karl Polanyi for Historians: An Alternative Economic NarrativeThe European Legacy 13 (2): 175-191. 2008.The purpose of this essay is to provide the historian with a generic understanding of the term economy by examining some aspects of the work of the Hungarian ?economic historian? Karl Polanyi (1886?1964). It does not seek to explain Polanyi's economic ideas to economists nor does it seek to locate his ideas within the discourses of the academic discipline of economics; there is abundant academic literature which carries out those tasks. This essay is intended to help fill a void in the historica…Read more
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29Just Relations and Company–Community Conflict in MiningJournal of Business Ethics 101 (1): 93-109. 2011.This research engages with the problem of company–community conflict in mining. The inequitable distributions of risks, impacts, and benefits are key drivers of resource conflicts and are likely to remain at the forefront of mining-related research and advocacy. Procedural and interactional forms of justice therefore lie at the very heart of some of the real and ongoing challenges in mining, including: intractable local-level conflict; emerging global norms and performance standards; and ever-in…Read more
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47Just Relations and Company–Community Conflict in MiningJournal of Business Ethics 101 (1). 2011.This research engages with the problem of company-community conflict in mining. The inequitable distributions of risks, impacts, and benefits are key drivers of resource conflicts and are likely to remain at the forefront of mining-related research and advocacy. Procedural and interactional forms of justice therefore lie at the very heart of some of the real and ongoing challenges in mining, including: intractable local-level conflict; emerging global norms and performance standards; and ever-in…Read more
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33Perez Zagorin, Hobbes and the Law of Nature: Princeton University Press, 2009Philosophia 39 (1): 201-205. 2011.
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11Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation From Hobbes to TocquevilleCambridge University Press. 2014.Does the toleration of liberal democratic society mean that religious faiths are left substantively intact, so long as they respect the rights of others? Or do liberal principles presuppose a deeper transformation of religion? Does life in democratic society itself transform religion? In Making Religion Safe for Democracy, J. Judd Owen explores these questions by tracing a neglected strand of Enlightenment political thought that presents a surprisingly unified reinterpretation of Christianity by…Read more
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26Negotiated Coercion: Thoughts about Involuntary Treatment in Mental HealthEthics and Social Welfare 4 (3): 297-299. 2010.
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8Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2011.Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possibleor even desirabletoday. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West, examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hin…Read more