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28The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.This rich collection will introduce students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract political thinkers Thomas Hobbes , John Locke , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau . A dozen essays and book excerpts have been selected to guide students through the texts and to introduce them to current scholarly controversies surrounding the contractarian political theories of these three thinkers
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42Brückenschläge: Daniel Ernst Jablonski im Europa der Frühaufklärung, ed. H. RudolphThe Leibniz Review 23 141-142. 2013.
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12Books in review : Hegel et le siècle Des lumières edited by Jacques D'Hondt. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2nd impression, 1978. Pp. 183 (review)Political Theory 7 (4): 559-562. 1979.
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227The voice of Michael Oakeshott in the conversation of mankindPolitical Theory 19 (3): 334-335. 1991.
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70Review: A Retrospective on the Political Theory of George Armstrong Kelly (review)Political Theory 20 (3). 1992.
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18In Memoriam: Michael Oakeshott, 1901-1990: The Voice of Michael Oakeshott in the Conversation of MankindPolitical Theory 19 (3): 334-335. 1991.
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4Four. The General Will Socialized: The Contribution of MontesquieuIn The General Will before Rousseau. The transformation of the Divine into the Civic, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 138-180. 1987.
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34An unpublished MS of Leibniz on the allegiance due to sovereign powersJournal of the History of Philosophy 11 (3): 319-336. 1973.
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40An unpublished lecture by Leibniz on the greeks as founders of rational theology: Its relation to his "universal jurisprudence"Journal of the History of Philosophy 14 (2): 205-216. 1976.
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7Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1): 155-183. 1999.The Cambridge Companion to Humanism. Jill Kraye. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 320. £35.00 hbk, £12.95 pbk. ISBN 0–521–43038–0, 0–521–43624–9. Scepticism in the History of Philosophy ‐ A Pan‐American Dialogue. Edited by Richard H. Popkin. Dordrecht‐Boston‐London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. pp. xxii + 285, hbk, £99.00, ISBN 0–7923–3769–7 Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. David B. Ruderman. Yale Univ…Read more
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49Leibniz's Political and Moral Philosophy in the "Novissima Sinica", 1699-1999Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (2): 217. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Leibniz’s Political and Moral Philosophy in the Novissima Sinica, 1699–1999Patrick RileyThe Preface to Leibniz’s Novissima Sinica 1 contains an important but highly compressed and abbreviated quintessence of his theory of justice or jurisprudence universelle—a version so compressed and abbreviated that one must have a broader and fuller understanding of this universal jurisprudence before one can entirely appreciate what Leibniz has …Read more
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57Political Writings [from the Historical and Critical Dictionary]Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment (review)The Leibniz Review 10 139-148. 2000.Given Leibniz’ admiration for Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique, which he called “le plus beau des dictionnaires” in the Nouveaux essais, and given that Bayle’s skeptical worries provided the occasion for the writing of the Theodicée, it is appropriate to consider in the The Leibniz Review the first English-language version of those articles from Bayle’s Dictionnaire which are most important for political and moral philosophy. For it is a superb version, edited by the most knowledgeabl…Read more
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3Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe: Allgemeiner Politischer und Historischer Briefwechsel (review)The Leibniz Review 12 107-121. 2002.The latest volume of Leibniz’s “General Political and Historical Correspondence” in the great Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Edition, covering the period May to December 1699, contains a number of letters bearing on Leibniz’s central practical idea—that “universal” justice, rightly conceived, is a positive, other-aiding caritas sapientis seu benevolentia universalis ; that such justice “contains” or encloses all of the moral virtues; and that it relates to “the common good” or “the perfection of the…Read more
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72Will and political legitimacy : a critical exposition of social contract theory in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel (edited book)Replica Books. 2000.Presents an historical analysis of social contract theory by considering the works of prominent philosophers.
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6The "Place" of Politics in Kant's Practical PhilosophyProceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress 2 (2): 267-278. 1989.
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53The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
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89On Kant as the Most Adequate of the Social Contract TheoristsPolitical Theory 1 (4): 450-471. 1973.
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Treatise on Nature and Grace (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1992.A scholarly edition of Nicolas Malebranche's Treatise on Nature and Grace by Patrick Riley. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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