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Hobbes on Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Hobbes on Justice

  • Categories: Law

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely regarded as one of the most important political thinkers in the Western tradition. Justice is one of the main political concepts today. This is the first book-length analysis of Hobbes's ideas on justice. Hobbes made many startling claims about justice. Norms of justice have no place outside the commonwealth, the civil law determines what is just and unjust, and nothing sovereigns do is unjust to their citizens. But what exactly did Hobbes mean by justice? And how did he convince his audience that he was speaking about justice when advancing such controversial views, and not about something else? In Hobbes on Justice, Olsthoorn traces the place of justice ...

The Public Uses of Coercion and Force
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

The Public Uses of Coercion and Force

  • Categories: Law

A semi-Kantian just war theory / Yitzhak Benbaji -- Might and right : Ripstein, Kant and the paradox of peace / Rainer Forst -- Reading Kant's Rechtslehre: some observations on Ripstein's Kant and the law of war / Thomas Mertens -- The moral basis of state independence / Anna Stilz -- Vulnerability, space, communication : three conditions of adequacy for cosmopolitan right / Peter Niesen -- Three models of territory : Arthur Ripstein on the territorial rights of states / Alice Pinheiro Walla -- A Kantian defense of remedial wars / Alon Harel -- National defense and the value of independence / Massimo Renzo -- Exactitude and indemonstrability in Kant's doctrine of right / Katrin Flikschuh -- ...

Hobbes's On the Citizen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Hobbes's On the Citizen

The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War

  • Categories: Law

A comprehensive exploration of contemporary debates in Just War Theory, addressing moral, political, and legal issues.

Childhood in Liberal Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Childhood in Liberal Theory

'Childhood in Liberal Theory' offers a novel perspective on the concept of 'childhood' and children's rights within the tradition of liberal theories of justice. Brando questions the strict opposition of childhood and adulthood as social categories, and proposes an Adaptive model of childhood as an alternative foundation.

Mandeville’s Fable
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Mandeville’s Fable

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville’s great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of human nature and the origin of society in the Enlightenment era. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Douglass offers a revelatory account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher. Douglass expertly reco...

The Long Arc of Legality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 491

The Long Arc of Legality

Explores how the central question of philosophy of law is the legal subject's: how can that be law for me?

Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Pufendorf's International Political and Legal Thought

  • Categories: Law

Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694) is regarded as one of the eminent thinkers of the early-modern era, critical in the shaping of the period's natural jurisprudence. In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, esteemed scholars examine Pufendorf's contributions to international political and legal thought.

Slavery and Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Slavery and Race

Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery. Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debat...

Property Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Property Theory

  • Categories: Law

The book brings together a refreshing collection of new essays on property theory, from legal, philosophical and political perspectives.