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LASZLO, Ervin and WILBUR, James B. : Human Values and Natural Science (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49 (n/a): 322. 1971.
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8HAGERSTROM, AXEL: "Philosophy of religion" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 43 (n/a): 232. 1965.The book reviewed is contains Hägerström's account of his own philosophical outlook and some of his writings on religion, translated into English by Robert T. Sandin, together with a biographical sketch by C.D. Broad.
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72The Two Levels in Natural Law ThinkingJurisprudence 1 (2): 197-224. 2010.Central parts of the natural law theories of Grotius and Pufendorf assume that persons by nature have individual realms of their own, violations of which constitute a wrong. This is the basis for their accounts of promises, ownership and reactions against wrongs. These accounts are significantly independent of any assumption that a superior being imposes obligations: rather, the individuals themselves create obligations by their own acts of will. The translator's introducton draws attention to t…Read more
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BROWN, Stuart C.: Do Religious Claims Make Sense? (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 49 (n/a): 231. 1971.
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Samuel Pufendorf: Eris Scandica und andere polemische Schriften uber das NaturrechtBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (3): 540-543. 2004.
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26Natural law and natural rightsIn Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. pp. 472. 2013.This chapter, which analyzes the conception of natural laws and natural rights in Great Britain during the seventeenth century, suggests that the widely held belief that rights depend for their existence on being granted by law is not true, and that the opposite is arguably closer to the truth. It also explores the writings on politics and religion during this period that mentioned natural laws and rights.
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HOCHSTRASSER, TJ-Natural Law Theories in the Early EnlightenmentPhilosophical Books 44 (3): 267-268. 2003.
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44Flaws in lawsPhilosophical Review 82 (1): 83-98. 1973.Statements to the effect that a certain law exists are generally considered to be statements of certain contingent, empirical facts. We will discuss a particular view of this kind-namely, legal positivism'-as presented by G.H. von Wright in Norm and Action.2 Statements to the effect that a certain law exists are also generally considered to obey the laws of deontic logic. This is also von Wright's view. The combination of these two views creates problems. These become particularly conspic…Read more
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50The Penguin dictionary of philosophyPenguin Books. 1997.Featuring hundreds of entries, this authoritative, A-to-Z reference encompasses the full spectrum and history of Western philosophy, covering such topics as logic, metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology, as well as providing incisive profiles of the world's great philosophers, past and present, and their influence. Original.
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6From Theonomy to Autonomy (review)Philosophical Books 40 (3): 159-169. 1999.Book reviewed in this article:J.B. Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy.
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79How Rights Became “Subjective”Ratio Juris 26 (1): 111-132. 2013.What is commonly called a right has since about 1980 increasingly come to be called a subjective right. In this paper the origin and rise of this solecism is investigated. Its use can result in a lack of clarity and even confusion. Some aspects of rights-concepts and their history are also discussed. A brief postscript introduces Leibniz's Razor
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16From Theonomy to AutonomyPhilosophical Books 40 (3): 159-169. 1999.Book reviewed in this article:J.B. Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
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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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