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1Robert Goodin: "Protecting the Vulnerable: a reanalysis of our social responsibilities" (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 5 (1): 114. 1988.
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4Hutcheson: Two Texts on Human Nature (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1993.Francis Hutcheson was the first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, and one of the great thinkers in the history of British moral philosophy. He firmly rejected the reductionist view, common then as now, that morality is nothing more than the prudent pursuit of self-interest, arguing in favour of a theory of a moral sense. The two texts presented here are the most eloquent expressions of this theory. The Reflections on our Common Systems of Morality insists on the connection between…Read more
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From Virtue to Morality. Antoine Le Grand (1629-1699) and the New Moral PhilosophyJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 8 209-232. 2000.
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34Some Myth about RealismRatio Juris 23 (3): 411-427. 2010.This paper discusses the place of philosophical naturalism in the philosophy of law, with special reference to Scandinavian Realism. Hägerström originated a non-cognitivist analysis of certain fundamental legal concepts, but he also proposed an error theory. The two approaches are incompatible, but were not always clearly distinguished. Among his followers, Olivecrona and Ross gradually abandoned the latter, at least from the late 1940s. Many accounts of their views are unclear, because the pres…Read more
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9Human rights Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller & Jeffrey Paul (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 133. 1986.
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25Two dualismsJournal of Value Inquiry 29 (2): 181-185. 1995.A discussion of a view proposed by Anthony Kenny, that inferences from factual statements to evaluative or normative statements, are in fact as unproblematic as the commonly accepted inferences inferences in the reverse direction,i. i. i from evaluative or normative statements to factual ones, The paper draws attention to some difficulties inherent in Kenny's view.
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ROSSVAER, V., "Kant's Moral Theory" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 59 (n/a): 258. 1981.
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From Virtues To Duties:the Case Of Antoine Le GrandJahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 8. 2000.Le Grand's introduction to philosophy, written for use in Cambridge, was the first to be written along Cartesian lines. A section on moral philosophy, first included in the second edition 1672, drew on the common Aristotelian-style way of dealing with the subject-matter, but with modifications inspired by Descartes. In the third edition 1675 this section was almost doubled in size. The additional chapters are an unacknowledged paraphrase of the bulk of Pufendorf's De officio hominis et civis 167…Read more
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28War and peaceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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BAMBROUGH, R., "Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 59 (n/a): 356. 1981.
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16Review of: Samuel Pufendorf discepolo di Hobbes (review)Philosophical Books 37 (3): 171-174. 1996.
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35Not a likely storyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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Heideggers tackofferFilosofisk Tidskrift 27 (4): 3-7. 2006.A discussion of Heidegger's view that it may be dulce et decorum gratefully to sacrifice one's life for the sake of Being. (A longer version is published in in Philosophia 2010.)
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