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Locke's Political Theology and the 'Second Treatise'
Locke Studies, 2018 It is a contested issue, particularly among modern and postmodern scholars, whether political theory requires a foundation—some set of background assumptions (about the nature of existence, the nature of agency, what is of value in human life and ...
Joanne Tetlow
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Locke Studies, 2018 Hate speech is a high profile issue in many liberal democracies today. While commentaries by constitutional experts and jurists abound in the press, and by legal and political philosophers in academia, it is remarkable that there is far less ...
J. K. Numao
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A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
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Locke and the Real Problem of Causation
Locke Studies, 2015 Any number of problems about causation emerge when one puts Locke into contact with other philosophers such as Hume. But Locke’s real problem with causation is internal to his view.
Walter Ott
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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
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Locke, Horace, and a Syllabus Errorum
Locke Studies, 2015 Houghton Library, Harvard University, fMS Eng 1090 (4) is an unpublished manuscript leaf in Locke’s hand.
Felix Waldmann
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, 2012 Even twenty-five years ago, it might have been eccentric to ask whether John Locke was a theorist of empire. Within the shorthand histories of political thought, Locke was the grandfather of liberalism; in the standard histories of philosophy, he was the exemplar of empiricism.
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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Locke's Orthography and the Dating of his Writings
Locke Studies, 2018 Anyone reading Locke’s works, especially those edited from manuscript, in an unmodernised edition can hardly avoid noticing that his preferred spellings are by no means always those used in present-day English.
J. R. Milton
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