John Zvesper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Zvesper |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Zvesper |
| SIGNATURE | ZVESPER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Liberal Predicament: Historical and Logical
There are two distinct accounts of the inner weakness of contemporary liberalism: a historical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal societies have changed, making liberal arguments seem less and less relevant; and a logical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal arguments themselves have changed, abandoning their original conceptual foundations. This article summarizes these two accounts, and then argues that liber…
Nature and liberty
Liberty and Nature
IN their return to questions of value during the last twenty years, professional philosophers in the English-speaking world have frequently gone beyond utilitarianism in order to defend human rights, but they have seldom gone so far as to question the utilitarian rejection of nature and natural rights. Therefore the revival of rights talk and deontology, which has found its roots in Kantian philosophy, has in turn been challenged by a more or les…
Liberty and Nature
Hobbes' Individualistic Analysis of the Family
The Utility of Consent in John Locke's Political Philosophy
This paper argues that the interpretation of Locke's doctrine of political consent is best built on ground between and above the extremes of voluntarism (deriving legitimacy from the form of actual consent) and utilitarianism (basing legitimacy on the proper end of hypothetical consent). Locke's characteristic combination of voluntarism and utilitarian considerations is illustrated by looking at his thoughts on religious toleration and property. …
The Madisonian Systems
JAMES MADISON is widely although somewhat inaccurately known as the Father of the Constitution and the founder of pluralism in American political science. He is equally although less widely known as one of the founders of the American party system and an advocate of a more participatory and communitarian theory of politics. Both of these characterizations are well founded. The first is based largely on Madison's career up to 1789, particularly hi…
The Problem of Liberal Rhetoric
Everyone knows that the art of political rhetoric has declined drastically in the modern world. Observers of the decline often measure and deplore it, but few pause to reflect that one of the reasons for the decline may be the acceptance of certain liberal principles which entail limits to the scope and power of political speech. Even such a clear-sighted observer of the interplay of language and politics as George Orwell argued that the simplifi…
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
American Political Ideology in the 1790S: Two Approaches
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
The Madisonian Systems
JAMES MADISON is widely although somewhat inaccurately known as the Father of the Constitution and the founder of pluralism in American political science. He is equally although less widely known as one of the founders of the American party system and an advocate of a more participatory and communitarian theory of politics. Both of these characterizations are well founded. The first is based largely on Madison's career up to 1789, particularly hi…
The Utility of Consent in John Locke's Political Philosophy
This paper argues that the interpretation of Locke's doctrine of political consent is best built on ground between and above the extremes of voluntarism (deriving legitimacy from the form of actual consent) and utilitarianism (basing legitimacy on the proper end of hypothetical consent). Locke's characteristic combination of voluntarism and utilitarian considerations is illustrated by looking at his thoughts on religious toleration and property. …
The Liberal Predicament: Historical and Logical
There are two distinct accounts of the inner weakness of contemporary liberalism: a historical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal societies have changed, making liberal arguments seem less and less relevant; and a logical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal arguments themselves have changed, abandoning their original conceptual foundations. This article summarizes these two accounts, and then argues that liber…
Hobbes' Individualistic Analysis of the Family
The Problem of Liberal Rhetoric
Everyone knows that the art of political rhetoric has declined drastically in the modern world. Observers of the decline often measure and deplore it, but few pause to reflect that one of the reasons for the decline may be the acceptance of certain liberal principles which entail limits to the scope and power of political speech. Even such a clear-sighted observer of the interplay of language and politics as George Orwell argued that the simplifi…
American Political Ideology in the 1790S: Two Approaches
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
The Problem of Liberal Rhetoric
Everyone knows that the art of political rhetoric has declined drastically in the modern world. Observers of the decline often measure and deplore it, but few pause to reflect that one of the reasons for the decline may be the acceptance of certain liberal principles which entail limits to the scope and power of political speech. Even such a clear-sighted observer of the interplay of language and politics as George Orwell argued that the simplifi…
The Utility of Consent in John Locke's Political Philosophy
This paper argues that the interpretation of Locke's doctrine of political consent is best built on ground between and above the extremes of voluntarism (deriving legitimacy from the form of actual consent) and utilitarianism (basing legitimacy on the proper end of hypothetical consent). Locke's characteristic combination of voluntarism and utilitarian considerations is illustrated by looking at his thoughts on religious toleration and property. …
The Madisonian Systems
JAMES MADISON is widely although somewhat inaccurately known as the Father of the Constitution and the founder of pluralism in American political science. He is equally although less widely known as one of the founders of the American party system and an advocate of a more participatory and communitarian theory of politics. Both of these characterizations are well founded. The first is based largely on Madison's career up to 1789, particularly hi…
Hobbes' Individualistic Analysis of the Family
Liberty and Nature
IN their return to questions of value during the last twenty years, professional philosophers in the English-speaking world have frequently gone beyond utilitarianism in order to defend human rights, but they have seldom gone so far as to question the utilitarian rejection of nature and natural rights. Therefore the revival of rights talk and deontology, which has found its roots in Kantian philosophy, has in turn been challenged by a more or les…
Liberty and Nature
Nature and liberty
The Liberal Predicament: Historical and Logical
There are two distinct accounts of the inner weakness of contemporary liberalism: a historical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal societies have changed, making liberal arguments seem less and less relevant; and a logical account, which emphasizes the extent to which liberal arguments themselves have changed, abandoning their original conceptual foundations. This article summarizes these two accounts, and then argues that liber…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)