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  1. Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750.Jonathan Israel - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment played a part in this revolutionary process, which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of (...)
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  • On Liberty and Other Essays.John Stuart Mill (ed.) - 1991 - Oxford University Press.
    Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of (...)
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  • Freedom evolves.Daniel Clement Dennett - 2003 - New York: Viking Press.
    Daniel C. Dennett is a brilliant polemicist, famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies. Over the last thirty years, he has played a major role in expanding our understanding of consciousness, developmental psychology, and evolutionary theory. And with such groundbreaking, critically acclaimed books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist), he has reached a huge general and professional audience. In this new book, Dennett shows that evolution is the key to resolving the ancient problems (...)
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  • Aspects of Hobbes.Noel Malcolm - 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes 's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.
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  • The proper study of mankind: an anthology of essays.Isaiah Berlin - 1997 - New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Edited by Henry Hardy & Roger Hausheer.
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  • Freedom and Belief.Galen Strawson - 1986 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    On the whole, we continue to believe firmly both that we have free will and that we are morally responsible for what we do. Here, the author argues that there is a fundamental sense in which there is no such thing as free will or true moral responsibility (as ordinarily understood). Devoting the main body of his book to an attempt to explain why we continue to believe as we do, Strawson examines various aspects of the "cognitive phenomenology" of freedom--the (...)
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  • Aspects of Hobbes.Noel Malcolm - 2002 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and thought, as a foundation for his discussion of such topics as his political philosophy, his theory of international relations, the development of his mechanistic world-view, and his subversive Biblical criticism. Several of the essays pay special attention (...)
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  • Mill on Liberty: A Defence.John Gray - 1996 - Psychology Press.
    In this 2nd edition, John Gray adds an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edition, but develops radical criticisms of the substance of Millian and other liberalism.
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  • The Morality of Pluralism.John Kekes - 1993 - Princeton University Press.
    Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids (...)
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  • Toleration, Value‐pluralism, and the Fact of Pluralism.Peter Jones - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):189-210.
    (2006). Toleration, Value‐pluralism, and the Fact of Pluralism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 189-210.
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  • Gray’s Blues: Pessimism as a Political Project.Glen Newey - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):263--284.
    (2006). Gray’s Blues: Pessimism as a Political Project. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 263-284.
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  • Liberal Obituary? [REVIEW]Loren E. Lomasky - 1991 - Ethics 102 (1):140-154.
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  • Straw dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals.John Gray - 2007 - New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
    The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the (...)
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  • Dominations and powers: reflections on liberty, society, and government.George Santayana - 1951 - New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
    CHAPTER TITLE AND SUBJECT OF THIS BOOK The words Dominations and Powers, here taken for a title, are not meant to be synonymous and the reduplication ...
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  • Obiter scripta.George Santayana - 1936 - London,: C. Scribner's Sons. Edited by Justus Buchler & Benjamin Schwartz.
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  • Pluralism and its Discontents: John Gray's Counter‐Enlightenment.Peter Lassman - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):211-225.
    (2006). Pluralism and its Discontents: John Gray's Counter‐Enlightenment. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 211-225.
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  • The Social Theory of Anti‐Liberalism.Paul Kelly - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):137-154.
    (2006). The Social Theory of Anti‐Liberalism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 137-154.
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  • Liberalism, Nihilism and Modernity in the Political Thought of John Gray.NoëL O’Sullivan - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):285-304.
    (2006). Liberalism, Nihilism and Modernity in the Political Thought of John Gray. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 285-304.
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  • John Gray and the Political Theory of Modus Vivendi.John Horton - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):155-169.
    (2006). John Gray and the Political Theory of Modus Vivendi. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 155-169.
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  • The Morality of Pluralism.John Kekes - 1996 - Princeton University Press.
    Controversies about abortion, the environment, pornography, AIDS, and similar issues naturally lead to the question of whether there are any values that can be ultimately justified, or whether values are simply conventional. John Kekes argues that the present moral and political uncertainties are due to a deep change in our society from a dogmatic to a pluralistic view of values. Dogmatism is committed to there being only one justifiable system of values. Pluralism recognizes many such systems, and yet it avoids (...)
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  • Utilitarian Liberalism: Between Gray and Mill.Jonathan Riley - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):117-135.
    (2006). Utilitarian Liberalism: Between Gray and Mill. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 117-135.
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  • Straw Dogs, Blind Horses and Post‐Humanism: The Greening of Gray?John Barry - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):243-262.
    (2006). Straw Dogs, Blind Horses and Post‐Humanism: The Greening of Gray? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 243-262.
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  • Liberalisms: essays in political philosophy.John Gray - 1989 - New York: Routledge.
    Chapter one JS Mill and the future of liberalism If there is a consensus on the value of Mill's political writings, it is that we may turn to them for the ...
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  • Gray’s Elegy for Progress.Glyn Morgan - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):227-241.
    (2006). Gray’s Elegy for Progress. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 227-241.
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  • Is John Gray a Nihilist?George Kateb - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):305-322.
    (2006). Is John Gray a Nihilist? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 305-322.
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  • Gray and the Politics of Pluralism.George Crowder - 2006 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 9 (2):171-188.
    (2006). Gray and the Politics of Pluralism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 9, The Political Theory of John Gray, pp. 171-188.
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  • Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice.William A. Galston - 2003 - Political Theory 31 (6):891-896.
    William Galston is a distinguished political philosopher whose work is informed by the experience of having also served from 1993–5 as President Clinton's Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy. He is thus able to speak with an authority unique amongst political theorists about the implications of advancing certain moral and political values in practice. The foundational argument of this 2002 book is that liberalism is compatible with the value pluralism first espoused by Isaiah Berlin. William Galston defends a version of value (...)
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