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- Locke and the Bible
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| Call For Papers: InterTexst Conference On Interdisciplinarity Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:16 PM PDT From Kaja Marczewska CFP: We are soliciting papers on any aspect of law and humanities/law and literature for the InterTexst conference on interdisciplinarity to be held at Durham University, Durham, UK on 23rd September 2011.   |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:16 AM PDT Ross J. Corbett, Northern Illinois University, has published Locke's Biblical Critique. Here is the abstract. This paper seeks to clarify the relationship between Locke's political and religious thought. To the extent that Locke's political thought is an outgrowth of a particular strand of Christianity, its claims to universality would be significantly diminished. This would be the case, however, only if Locke were genuinely religious. |
Plausible accounts of his religiosity have been offered by Dunn, Waldron, et al, but such accounts become implausible given the presence of a biblical critique within the Two Treatises. The evidence for a critique of the Bible on moral grounds pointed to by Strauss, Pangle, et al is ambiguous, however, and so fails to refute the pious-Locke hypothesis. This paper argues that close attention to Locke's analysis of the Hebrew text of Gen. 1:28 unambiguously points to a critique of the Bible on textual grounds. This serves to set the moral critique upon firmer foundations, to imply that the moral critique really is present in the text, and to reestablish the universalist claims of Locke's political thought.Download the paper from SSRN at the link.
Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:11 AM PDT
Matthias Lennig has published The Concept of Justice in the History of Economic Thought. Here is the abstract.
Economic thought has shifted its focus from an essentially normative approach, dealing with the question of justice, to an emphasis on efficiency and equilibria. This paper traces the changing perception of the issue of justice in the history of economic thought. Today, many heterodox economists maintain this long tradition of thinking about justice. In mainstream theory, i. e. neoclassical theory, however, justice is not regarded as being part of its research agenda. Consequently, economics is widely defined and perceived as the science of efficiency, and contemplation on the concept of justice is outsourced into neighbouring disciplines such as political science, law, sociology and philosophy in particular. Furthermore, it becomes apparent that ideas of justice are never creations ex nihilo, but develop from the entirety of traditional thought on that matter. Thought about justice is always context specific and ideas change due to new circumstances. It follows that contemplation on justice can never become superfluous and as the rich tradition of thought about justice in the history of economic thought shows, economists have much to contribute to this endeavour.Download the paper from SSRN at the link.
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