SSRN History of Western Philosophy eJournal

1.

Socrates' Defense

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2015

Working Paper Series

Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack

Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Wesleyan College

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2.

Summary of Social Contract Theory by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Mar 2014

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Manzoor Elahi Laskar

Symbiosis International University

Downloads 10,087

3.

Natural Law Theory: The Modern Tradition

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, Jules L. Coleman & Scott Shapiro, eds., Oxford University Press, 2002

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Dec 1999

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Bix

University of Minnesota Law School

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4.

Crito

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2015

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Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack

Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Wesleyan College

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5.

Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro, Socrates' Defense, Crito and the Death Scene from Phaedo

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2015

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Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack

Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Wesleyan College

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6.

Euthyphro

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2015

Working Paper Series

Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack

Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Wesleyan College

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7.

Islam & the West: Testing the Clash of Civilizations Thesis

KSG Working Paper No. RWP02-015

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2002

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Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Institute for Social Research (ISR)

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8.

Nietzsche

Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, M. Forster & K. Gjesdal, eds. (2014)

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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9.

Meno

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2012

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Cathal Woods

Virginia Wesleyan College

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10.

The Truth is Terrible

Daniel Came (ed.), Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 04 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2014

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 2,710

11.

The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 279

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2009

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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12.

Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory

Analyse und Kritik, 2015, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Aug 2015

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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13.

Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered

Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, 2009, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 235

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2009

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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14.

On 'Public Reason'

Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper No. 06-37, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1/2007

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jan 2007

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John Finnis

Notre Dame Law School

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15.

The Death of God and the Death of Morality

Forthcoming in a special issue of THE MONIST on Nietzsche

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2016

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,860

16.

Who is the 'Sovereign Individual'? Nietzsche on Freedom

CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDE TO NIETZSCHE'S ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY, Simon May, ed., 2010

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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17.

Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 101, 2015

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2015

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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18.

Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 438

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 1,273

19.

An Analysis of the Kelson’s Theory of Law

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Jan 2013

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S. K. Jahangir Ali

Balurghat Law College

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20.

Untimely Review of Friedrich Nietzsche's, Twilight of the Idols

Topoi (Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Oct 2013

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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21.

The Natural Law Theory of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Philosophy of Law, 6th Edition, Feinberg, Joel, and Jules Coleman, eds. Wadsworth, 2000

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jan 2013

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Susan Dimock

York University

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22.

Death Scene from Phaedo

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 20 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2015

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Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack

Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Wesleyan College

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23.

Lessons from Malcolm X: Freedom by Any Means Necessary

Howard Law Journal, Vol. 38, p. 79, 1994

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Oct 2006

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Ali Khan

Washburn University /Legal Scholar Academy

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24.

Aristotle, Law and Justice: The Tragic Hero

Northern Kentucky Law Review, Vol. 35, pp. 1-18, 2008

Number of pages: 164 Posted: 30 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2009

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Eric Engle

http://www.amazon.com/author/quizmaster

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25.

Subsidiarity, Federalism and the Best Constitution: Thomas Aquinas on City, Province and Empire

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 26, pp. 161-228, 2007, University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law Research Paper No. 07-06

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Mar 2006

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Nicholas Aroney

University of Queensland - TC Beirne School of Law

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26.

Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: A Comment on Professor Szubka

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 298

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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27.

The Innocence of Becoming: Nietzsche Against Guilt

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2017

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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28.

Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant: On Markets, Duties, and Moral Sentiments

Forum for Social Economics, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2009

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Mark D. White

CUNY College of Staten Island

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29.

Kant, Habermas and Democratic Peace

Chicago Journal of International Law, 2010, U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-01, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1544063

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Jan 2010

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Robert J. Delahunty and John Yoo

University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) and University of California at Berkeley School of Law

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30.

On the 'Esoteric' Reading of Nietzsche

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 May 2014

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

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31.

Toleration and Calumny: Bayle, Locke, Montesquie and Voltaire on Religious Hate Speech

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-80

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 31 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2010

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Jeremy Waldron

New York University School of Law

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32.

Totalitarianism Through Newspeak and Doublethink: An Evaluation Through George Orwell's 1984

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 13 May 2017

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Mukta Batra

Independent

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33.

Isaiah Berlin's Neglect of Enlightenment Constitutionalism

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-12

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2014

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Jeremy Waldron

New York University School of Law

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34.

The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes

Cuaderno CIPE, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jan 2010

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Fernando Estrada

Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales

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35.

Notes on 'The Order of Discourse'

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 May 2014

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Jose Angel Garcia Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

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36.

'Because Everyone Thinks So': Hume on Authority and Common Opinion

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 59/2010

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 05 May 2015

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Leslie Green

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

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37.

The Third Form of Justice

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 23, 2010

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 May 2010

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Ronen Perry

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law

Downloads 550

38.

Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World

Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, Vol. 11, Autumn 2011, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1785428

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2012

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Gerald J. Postema

University of North Carolina - Philosophy and Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

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39.

The Evolution of the Concept of Perpetual Peace in the History of Political-Legal Thought

Revista Escuela de Historia, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2011

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012

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Bogumil Terminski

Independent

There are 2 versions of this paper

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40.

Foucault and the Genealogy of Pastoral Power

Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 157-76, 2007

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Feb 2009

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Ben Golder

Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

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41.

Review Essay of Janaway & Robertson (Editors), Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity (Oxford, 2012)

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Dec 2013

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 529

42.

Does God Exist?: Hegel and Things

Cardozo Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 84

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 21 Mar 2004

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David Gray Carlson

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

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43.

Hegel's Political Philosophy

Brooks, Thom. "Political Philosophy" in Michael Bauer (ed.), G W F Hegel: Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2014, pp. 76-90.

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014

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Thom Brooks

Durham University

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44.

The Economic Thought of David Hume: A Pioneer in the Field of Law & Economics

Hume Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 184-204, 1989

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 May 2005

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Robert W. McGee

Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting

Downloads 509

45.

Emden on Nietzsche's Naturalism: A Critical Assessment

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Jul 2015

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Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Downloads 508

46.

Memory and Morals in Memento: Hume at the Movies

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Dec 2007

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George Bragues

University of Guelph-Humber

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47.

Rivalry and Superior Dispatch: An Analysis of Competing Courts in Medieval and Early Modern England

George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-57

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2010

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Edward Peter Stringham and Todd J. Zywicki

Trinity College and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

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48.

Locke on the Death Penalty

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Feb 2009

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A. John Simmons

University of Virginia

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49.

Aristotle's Ethics and the Virtuous Lawyer: A Study on Legal Ethics and Clinical Legal Education

Journal of the Legal Profession, Vol. 20, p. 5, 1996

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Jun 2007

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Lorie Graham

Suffolk University Law School

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50.

John Courtney Murray and Reinhold Niebuhr: Natural Law and Christian Realism

Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Vol. 3, 2006, U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-20

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Nov 2005

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Thomas C. Berg

University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law

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