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227The voice of Michael Oakeshott in the conversation of mankindPolitical Theory 19 (3): 334-335. 1991.
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215On DeLue's Review of Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political PhilosophyPolitical Theory 12 (3): 435-439. 1984.
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147Kant against Hobbes in theory and practiceJournal of Moral Philosophy 4 (2): 194-206. 2007.In the middle section of Theory and Practice, Kant speaks briefly `against Hobbes '; but for a fuller version of Kant's anti-Hobbesianism one must turn to the three Critiques, the Groundwork, and Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. It is in those works that one learns that, for Kant, Hobbes 's notion of `will' as fully determined `last appetite' destroys the freedom needed to take `ought' or moral necessity as the motives for self-determined action; that Hobbes ' s version of the social …Read more
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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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70Will 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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70Review: A Retrospective on the Political Theory of George Armstrong Kelly (review)Political Theory 20 (3). 1992.
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69Leibniz’ Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice: A Reply to Andreas BlankThe Leibniz Review 15 185-216. 2005.To mark the 300th anniversary of the composition of Leibniz’ most important mature writing on justice, the Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice, I published an interpretation of this work in The Leibniz Review. But Dr. Andreas Blank, dissatisfied with my Platonizing “reading” of the Méditation, published his own commentary in the same Review —treating not just my 2003 article but also my Leibniz’ Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the Wise and several smaller writings f…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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52The 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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50Leibniz’s Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice, 1703-2003The Leibniz Review 13 67-81. 2003.Leibniz’s Méditation sur la notion commune de la justice is his most important writing on justice as “wise charity” and “universal benevolence” ; we now observe the 300th anniversary of its composition, and a reproduction of part of Leibniz’s manuscript appears in the Appendix to this article. But Leibniz’s essay might with equal justice be called, “Meditation on the Common Notion of Platonism”—for the Méditation opens with a nearly-verbatim paraphrase of Euthyphro 9e-10e, moves on to reduce Hob…Read more
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46Leibniz's Scottish Connection: The Correspondence with Thomas Burnett of KemneyJournal of Scottish Philosophy 1 (1): 69-85. 2003.
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44Leibniz'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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42Leibniz' universal jurisprudence: justice as the charity of the wiseHarvard University Press. 1996.The text includes fragments of his work that have never before been translated.
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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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42Leibniz on Natural Law in the Nouveaux essaisIn Marcelo Dascal (ed.), Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, Springer. pp. 279--289. 2008.
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41General and particular will in the political thought of Pierre BayleJournal of the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 173-195. 1986.
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40Notice of G.W. Leibniz, Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe, Reihe IV , Band 5, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, forthcoming February 2004 (review)The Leibniz Review 13 167-168. 2003.In a few months’ time the Potsdam branch of the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften will bring out the latest volume of Leibniz’s Political Writings, under the able editorship of Hartmut Rudolph. For Leibniz’s moral-political-juridical philosophy, the most important single item in A IV, 5 will be the “Praefatio” to the Codex Iuris Gentium—the work in which Leibniz first published his celebrated notion that justice is “the charity of the wise” or “universal benevolence”, not just Hobbe…Read more
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38An 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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38Michael Oakeshott as a critic of Hobbes's theory of the willRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 1. 2004.Michael Oakeshott as a Critic of Hobbes's Theory of the Will - ABSTRACT: Patrick Riley asks why the post-War Oakeshott stopped speaking of the incoherence of Hobbes’s philosophy of volition, as he had in his Hobbes studies before the War. One answer is that he became more and more sensitive to the necessity of counterbalancing the determinist reading of Hobbes, which tended to be dominant in the 1970s’ Hobbes studies. He cites the example of Thomas Spragens’s The Politics of Motion , according t…Read more
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366 Rousseau's General WillIn The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. pp. 124. 2001.
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