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86Locke on toleration and inclusionRatio Juris 21 (4): 518-540. 2008.As the product of liberalism's first encounter with the theoretical problems posed by legal discrimination and unequal treatment of minority groups, Locke's argument for religious toleration foreshadowed contemporary democratic theory's emphasis on non-coercive discussion of diverse rights claims and broadly inclusive public deliberations. This study tries to illuminate the democratic dimension of Locke's toleration theory by focusing on his crucial account of the church as a voluntary associati…Read more
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80Locke on Punishment, Property and Moral KnowledgeJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2): 218-244. 2009.Locke's admittedly 'very strange' sounding doctrine of natural executive power, according to which the individual has the right to execute the law of nature, has long been one of the most controversial features of his moral philosophy. In contrast to the many commentators who deny its theoretical innovation and challenge its individualist premises, this study proposes that the philosophical significance of Locke's natural right to punish derives from its critical departure from earlier moral and…Read more
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49Republican Political Theory and Irish NationalismThe European Legacy 21 (1): 19-37. 2016.Republicanism has enjoyed something of a revival in recent times among political theorists. This article examines the way in which republican strains of democratic political philosophy impacted political thinkers and leaders in the case of modern Ireland. Although the Republic of Ireland was officially established in 1949, the question of its origins was a source of contention throughout the first part of the twentieth century. I argue that the intellectual origins of Irish republicanism lay in …Read more
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38John Locke and modern lifeCambridge University Press. 2010.Recovers a sense of John Locke's central role in the making of the modern world. It demonstrates that his vision of modern life was constructed on a philosophy of human freedom that is the intellectual nerve connecting the various strands of his thought. By revealing the depth and originality of Locke's critique of the metaphysical assumptions and authoritative institutions of pre-modern life, this book rejects the notion of Locke as an intellectual anachronism. Indeed, the radical core of Locke…Read more
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26Reconsidering Democracy: IntroductionThe European Legacy 24 (7-8): 693-694. 2019.Volume 24, Issue 7-8, November - December 2019, Page 693-694.
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22Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interestsnatural Rights and the Harmony of InterestsEdinburgh University Press. 2022.Lays out an account of the origins and development of liberal political and economic theoryIncludes case studies that cover thinkers and ideas from the English Civil War through to liberalism's first encounters with socialism Provides comparative analysis of distinct intellectual traditions including English natural rights theory, the Scottish Enlightenment, Victorian-era utilitarianism and classical political economyIntegrates history of economic thinking into broader milieu of modern political…Read more
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21Jason David BeDuhn, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma. 2: Making a “Catholic” Self, 388–401 CE Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Jesse Couenhoven, Stricken by Sin, Cured by Christ: Agency, Necessity, and Culpa-bility in Augustinian Theology. Oxford, New York, et al.: Oxford University Press, 2013 (review)Augustinian Studies 44 (2): 329. 2013.
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13Two Treatises of Government (edited book)Focus. 1988.Designed to serve the needs of students confronting Locke's political thought for the first time, Lee Ward's edition offers a faithful text of _Two Treatises of Government _with modernized spelling and punctuation. Its Editor's Introduction outlines the main arguments of these works, illustrates the conceptual thread uniting the less frequently read _First Treatise_ with the far more famous _Second Treatise_, and locates Locke's work amid the turbulent constitutional battles of 1690s England. He…Read more
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9Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2013.Inspired by the work of prominent University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, this volume of essays explores the concept of natural right in the history of political philosophy. The central organizing principle of the collection is the examination of the idea of natural justice, identified in the classical period with natural right and in modernity with the concept of individual natural rights. Contributors examine the concept of natural right and right…Read more
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8The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary AmericaCambridge University Press. 2004.This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study ill…Read more
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Rhetoric and Natural Rights in Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning GovernmentInterpretation 28 (2): 119-145. 2001.