Ruth W Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 299378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth W Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth W |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 460 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability
Reflections on a Career
There are a number of ways I could give an account of my scholarship over the past thirty-five years. I could discuss the teachers, colleagues, students, and writings that have influenced me. I cou
Rethinking the ethics of incentives
Incentives are typically conceived as a form of trade, and so voluntariness appears to be the only ethical concern. As a consequence, incentives are often considered ethically superior to regulations because they are voluntary rather than coercive. But incentives can also be viewed as one way to get others to do what they otherwise would not; that is, as a form of power. When incentives are viewed in this light, many ethical questions arise in ad…
Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution – By Keith M. Brown
John Locke on Custom's Power and Reason's Authority
Locke stresses the power of custom in shaping opinion and behavior, though this aspect of his thought has been underappreciated. Recognizing its importance raises critical issues, particularly the relation between custom and reason and the role of authoritative custom in supporting political and social power. Locke explains in detail the various psychological and sociological mechanisms by which the power of custom is manifested; but he nonethele…
Passions and interests revisited: The psychological foundations of economics and politics
Naming Evil, Judging Evil
Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach
Understood within an economic framework as a form of trade, incentives appear inherently ethical; understood as a form of power, incentives seem ethically suspect. Incentives, along with coercion and persuasion, are among the ways in which some people get others to do what they want them to do. This paper analyzes incentives as a form of power in order to develop criteria for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate uses of them. Whereas an ec…
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to what standards? Thinking clearly about these questions requires recognizing a distinction, evident in theories of accountability at the nation-state level, between "participation" and "delegation"…
Political Theory, Political Science, and Politics
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics
Language, Race and Politics: From 'Black' to 'African-American
Integrity and Politics: An Alternative Reading of Rousseau
D'apres l'A., l'ideal ethique de Rousseau est un ideal d'integrite, la conception d'integrite comprenant, a la fois, des elements de l'authenticite et de la vertu. Mais cette integrite n'implique ni la subjectivite ni la rigidite morale attribuees a la pensee de Rousseau par ceux qui estiment que l'authenticite et la vertu en constituent l'essence. Par consequent, ces implications politiques sont plus positives
The Antifederalists, the First Congress, and the First Parties
It is regularly argued that the ratification of the federal Constitution and the formation of the Federalist and Jeffersonian Republican parties marked points of significant discontinuity between politics before the new Constitution and thereafter. In this paper, we argue that there was significant continuity in politics in this period. In particular, we argue that the antifederalist representatives in the First Congress helped create such contin…
Interpretation and Social Criticism. Michael Walzer
Locke's Political Anthropology and Lockean Individualism
Locke's anthropological accounts do not depict isolated individuals whose behavior is governed by rational calculations of their interests. He is not an "atomistic" individualist; he acknowledges what communitarian critics of liberalism claim that liberals do not acknowledge--the extent to which men are social beings. Nonetheless, his political theory is individualistic as a normative theory of individual natural rights. Locke seeks to combat aut…
John Locke's Liberalism
In this work, Ruth W. Grant presents a new approach to John Locke's familiar works. Taking the unusual step of relating Locke's Two Treatises to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Grant establishes the unity and coherence of Locke's political arguments. She analyzes the Two Treatises as a systematic demonstration of liberal principles of right and power and grounds it in the epistemology set forth in the Essay.
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to what standards? Thinking clearly about these questions requires recognizing a distinction, evident in theories of accountability at the nation-state level, between "participation" and "delegation"…
Political Theory, Political Science, and Politics
The Antifederalists, the First Congress, and the First Parties
It is regularly argued that the ratification of the federal Constitution and the formation of the Federalist and Jeffersonian Republican parties marked points of significant discontinuity between politics before the new Constitution and thereafter. In this paper, we argue that there was significant continuity in politics in this period. In particular, we argue that the antifederalist representatives in the First Congress helped create such contin…
Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach
Understood within an economic framework as a form of trade, incentives appear inherently ethical; understood as a form of power, incentives seem ethically suspect. Incentives, along with coercion and persuasion, are among the ways in which some people get others to do what they want them to do. This paper analyzes incentives as a form of power in order to develop criteria for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate uses of them. Whereas an ec…
John Locke on Custom's Power and Reason's Authority
Locke stresses the power of custom in shaping opinion and behavior, though this aspect of his thought has been underappreciated. Recognizing its importance raises critical issues, particularly the relation between custom and reason and the role of authoritative custom in supporting political and social power. Locke explains in detail the various psychological and sociological mechanisms by which the power of custom is manifested; but he nonethele…
Locke's Political Anthropology and Lockean Individualism
Locke's anthropological accounts do not depict isolated individuals whose behavior is governed by rational calculations of their interests. He is not an "atomistic" individualist; he acknowledges what communitarian critics of liberalism claim that liberals do not acknowledge--the extent to which men are social beings. Nonetheless, his political theory is individualistic as a normative theory of individual natural rights. Locke seeks to combat aut…
Language, Race and Politics: From 'Black' to 'African-American
Passions and interests revisited: The psychological foundations of economics and politics
Integrity and Politics: An Alternative Reading of Rousseau
D'apres l'A., l'ideal ethique de Rousseau est un ideal d'integrite, la conception d'integrite comprenant, a la fois, des elements de l'authenticite et de la vertu. Mais cette integrite n'implique ni la subjectivite ni la rigidite morale attribuees a la pensee de Rousseau par ceux qui estiment que l'authenticite et la vertu en constituent l'essence. Par consequent, ces implications politiques sont plus positives
John Locke's Liberalism
In this work, Ruth W. Grant presents a new approach to John Locke's familiar works. Taking the unusual step of relating Locke's Two Treatises to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Grant establishes the unity and coherence of Locke's political arguments. She analyzes the Two Treatises as a systematic demonstration of liberal principles of right and power and grounds it in the epistemology set forth in the Essay.
Interpretation and Social Criticism. Michael Walzer
Locke's Political Anthropology and Lockean Individualism
Locke's anthropological accounts do not depict isolated individuals whose behavior is governed by rational calculations of their interests. He is not an "atomistic" individualist; he acknowledges what communitarian critics of liberalism claim that liberals do not acknowledge--the extent to which men are social beings. Nonetheless, his political theory is individualistic as a normative theory of individual natural rights. Locke seeks to combat aut…
The Antifederalists, the First Congress, and the First Parties
It is regularly argued that the ratification of the federal Constitution and the formation of the Federalist and Jeffersonian Republican parties marked points of significant discontinuity between politics before the new Constitution and thereafter. In this paper, we argue that there was significant continuity in politics in this period. In particular, we argue that the antifederalist representatives in the First Congress helped create such contin…
Integrity and Politics: An Alternative Reading of Rousseau
D'apres l'A., l'ideal ethique de Rousseau est un ideal d'integrite, la conception d'integrite comprenant, a la fois, des elements de l'authenticite et de la vertu. Mais cette integrite n'implique ni la subjectivite ni la rigidite morale attribuees a la pensee de Rousseau par ceux qui estiment que l'authenticite et la vertu en constituent l'essence. Par consequent, ces implications politiques sont plus positives
Language, Race and Politics: From 'Black' to 'African-American
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics
Political Theory, Political Science, and Politics
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to what standards? Thinking clearly about these questions requires recognizing a distinction, evident in theories of accountability at the nation-state level, between "participation" and "delegation"…
Naming Evil, Judging Evil
Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach
Understood within an economic framework as a form of trade, incentives appear inherently ethical; understood as a form of power, incentives seem ethically suspect. Incentives, along with coercion and persuasion, are among the ways in which some people get others to do what they want them to do. This paper analyzes incentives as a form of power in order to develop criteria for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate uses of them. Whereas an ec…
Passions and interests revisited: The psychological foundations of economics and politics
Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution – By Keith M. Brown
John Locke on Custom's Power and Reason's Authority
Locke stresses the power of custom in shaping opinion and behavior, though this aspect of his thought has been underappreciated. Recognizing its importance raises critical issues, particularly the relation between custom and reason and the role of authoritative custom in supporting political and social power. Locke explains in detail the various psychological and sociological mechanisms by which the power of custom is manifested; but he nonethele…
Rethinking the ethics of incentives
Incentives are typically conceived as a form of trade, and so voluntariness appears to be the only ethical concern. As a consequence, incentives are often considered ethically superior to regulations because they are voluntary rather than coercive. But incentives can also be viewed as one way to get others to do what they otherwise would not; that is, as a form of power. When incentives are viewed in this light, many ethical questions arise in ad…
Reflections on a Career
There are a number of ways I could give an account of my scholarship over the past thirty-five years. I could discuss the teachers, colleagues, students, and writings that have influenced me. I cou
How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability
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