This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T.M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In "Contractualism and Justification," Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explor…
This selection of John Gardner's influential pieces in criminal law theory tackles persistent, troublesome questions including : Which wrongs should be crimes and why? Should crimes ever be excused, and if so on what basis? What are the conditions of criminal responsibility, and…
The topic of this dissertation is the epistemology of 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume. Hume notoriously pursues a constructive science of human nature in his masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature while raising serious skeptical doubts about that project and leaving…
The thesis of this dissertation is that the doctrine of justification plays a necessary and significant role for Karl Barth in the development of his political theology, particular during the years of 1938 to 1946. The starting point for this thesis is Barth's 1938 essay, "Churc…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the question, what is worth teaching and why? I analyze a range of purposes, values and criteria that have been suggested as the basis for curricular choices rather than recommend a new philosophical approach to curriculum selection…
As a consequence of the separation between religion and politics, known as secularism, the discussion about violence has also been divided into two main categories –Religious Violence and Non-Religious Violence– in the modern Western academia. The tendency of the leading scholar…
Dr. Steven Long of Ave Maria University argues that, according to the fourth canon of the Council of Trent’s Decree on Justification, any and every will “moved and awakened by God” cooperates by assenting to prevenient grace. Indeed, he argues that man’s cooperation is the very …
"This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon, so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought, was, at least in his theological methods and views, not Erasmian at all, but in fa…
