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Paul R. DeHart
Publikováno v:
Catholic Social Science Review. 26:3-21
Many scholars view political contractarianism as a distinctly modern account of the foundations of political order. Ideas such as popular sovereignty, the right of revolution, the necessity of the consent of the governed for rightful political author
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Paul R. DeHart
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Catholic Social Science Review. 25:51-65
In Pagans & Christians in the City, Steven D. Smith argues that in contrast to ancient Rome, ancient Christianity, following Judaism, located the sacred outside the world, desacralizing the cosmos and everything in it—including the political order.
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Paul R. DeHart
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Catholic Social Science Review. 24:19-31
In Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen contends that the American founding is fundamentally Hobbesian and that the Constitution is the application of the Hobbesian revolution concerning liberty and anthropology. I contend that Deneen fundamentally
Autor:
Paul R. DeHart
Most scholars who write on social contract and classical natural law perceive an irreconcilable tension between them. Social contract theory is widely considered the political-theoretic concomitant of modern philosophy. Against the regnant view, The
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Paul R. DeHart
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Catholic Social Science Review. 22:53-71
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Paul R. DeHart
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Journal of Church and State. 58:359-362
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Paul R. DeHart
Publikováno v:
Critical Review. 25:1-37
Early modern theorists linked the idea of sovereign power to a conception of absolute power developed during the medieval period. Ockham had reframed the already extant distinction between God's absolute and ordained powers in order to argue that God
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Paul R. DeHart
Publikováno v:
Perspectives on Political Science. 41:165-177
In this article I contend that conventional social contract theory is self-referentially incoherent. Conventional contractarianism therefore fails to provide an adequate foundation for the authority of the state and for the obligation of citizens to
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Paul R. DeHart
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The Review of Politics. 70:481-484
Autor:
Paul R. DeHart
Publikováno v:
Polity. 38:369-394
Is there a basis in natural justice for sometimes disobeying the edicts of the state. Antigone provides an occasion for considering this question. Ancient skeptics maintained that there is no such thing as natural justice, because laws and morals var