Susan Mendus
Susan Mendus
The paper examines John Horton's realist political theory, in particular his critique of John Rawls's "high" or "liberal moralism", and seeks to determine the extent to which, together with Horton, we would have reasons to leave Rawls's and...
Albert Weale
Albert Weale
John Horton has argued for an associative theory of political obligation in which such obligation is seen as a concomitant of membership of a particular polity, where a polity provides the generic goods of order and security. Accompanying t...
Peter Jones
Peter Jones
One of John Horton's most original and significant contributions to political theory is his development and exploration of the political theory of modus vivendi (MV). I examine what Horton understands a MV to be, what sort of theory he inte...
Glen Newey
Glen Newey
This article deals with modus vivendi, toleration and power. On the face of it toleration and modus vivendi are in tension with each other, because of the power condition on toleration: that an agent is tolerant only if they have the power ...
Sorin Baiasu
Sorin Baiasu
John Horton's work has been particularly influential in debates on specific topics related to toleration, political obligation, modus vivendi and political realism. More recently, he has synthesised these views in the form of a distinctive ...
Transgressions Are Equal, and Right Actions Are Equal: some Philosophical Reflections on Paradox III in Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum [0.03%]
犯错平等，行正义平等——论西塞罗《斯多葛悖论》第三悖论的一些哲学思考
Daniel Rönnedal
Daniel Rönnedal
In Paradoxa Stoicorum, the Roman philosopher Cicero defends six important Stoic theses. Since these theses seem counterintuitive, and it is not likely that the average person would agree with them, they were generally called "paradoxes". Ac...
Sufficient Reasons to Act Wrongly: Making Parfit's Kantian Contractualist Formula Consistent with Reasons [0.03%]
论错误行为的充足理由——使帕菲特的康德契约公式与动机相一致
Mattias Gunnemyr
Mattias Gunnemyr
In On What Matters (2011) Derek Parfit advocates the Kantian Contractualist Formula as one of three supreme moral principles. In important cases, this formula entails that it is wrong for an agent to act in a way that would be partially bes...
Berg on Belief Reports [0.03%]
伯格论信念报告
Anthony Everett
Anthony Everett
Jonathan Berg's insightful and lucid book Direct Belief develops a pragmatic account of our intuitions about Frege-cases. More precisely Berg argues that our practice of belief-reporting normally exhibits certain regularities. He argues tha...