Daniel Eggers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4408323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Eggers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Eggers |
| SIGNATURE | EGGERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy University of Cologne Cologne Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3992-0237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘By parity of Reason’
According to Richard Cumberland, men’s natural law obligation to promote the common good does not derive from self-interest, but there is really no conflict between private and public happiness because the former is contained in the latter. The aim of this paper is to disentangle the various arguments supposed to support this claim and to focus specifically on the ‘parity of reason’ argument which draws upon the principle of treating like cases a…
Introduction to the Special Issue “Public Reason and Rawlsian Citizens
Are emotions necessary and sufficient for moral judgement (and what would it tell us)
The eighteenth century debate between moral rationalists and moral sentimentalists has seen a striking renaissance in the past decades, not least because of research into the nature of moral judgement conducted by empirical scientists such as social and developmental psychologists and neuroscientists. A claim that is often made in the current discussion is that the evidence made available by such empirical investigations refutes rationalist conce…
Hobbes, Kant, and the Universal ‘right to all things’, or Why We Have to Leave the State of Nature
This paper discusses the juridical interpretation of Hobbes’s state of nature argument, which has been defended by commentators such as Georg Geismann, Dieter Hüning or Peter Schröder. According to the juridical interpretation, the primary reason why the Hobbesian state of nature needs to be abandoned is not that everybody’s self-preservation is constantly threatened. It is that, due to the universal right to all things, the jural order of the st…
Introduction by the Guest Editors
Moral motivation in early 18th century moral rationalism
In the modern debate in metaethics and moral psychology, moral rationalism is often presented as a view that cannot account for the intimate relation between moral behaviour on one hand and feelings, emotions, or desires on the other. Although there is no lack of references to the classic rationalists of the 18th century in the relevant discussions, the works of these writers are rarely ever examined detail. Yet, as the debate in Kant scholarship…
Injury, injustice, iniquity
I would like to thank all the participants, especially Johan Olsthoorn, Luciano Venezia and Adrian Blau, for their helpful comments and suggestions. In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the two anonymous referees for Intellectual History Review
Thomas Hobbes
Liberty and Contractual Obligation in Hobbes
The paper critically discusses the deontological interpretation of Hobbesian contractual obligation which has been advocated by commentators such as Brian Barry, D. D. Raphael and Bernd Ludwig. According to this interpretation, the obligation to comply with contracts and covenants is fundamentally different from the obligation to observe the laws of nature. While the latter is taken to be a prudential obligation that is logically dependent upon t…
Moral motivation in early 18th century moral rationalism
In the modern debate in metaethics and moral psychology, moral rationalism is often presented as a view that cannot account for the intimate relation between moral behaviour on one hand and feelings, emotions, or desires on the other. Although there is no lack of references to the classic rationalists of the 18th century in the relevant discussions, the works of these writers are rarely ever examined detail. Yet, as the debate in Kant scholarship…
Liberty and Contractual Obligation in Hobbes
The paper critically discusses the deontological interpretation of Hobbesian contractual obligation which has been advocated by commentators such as Brian Barry, D. D. Raphael and Bernd Ludwig. According to this interpretation, the obligation to comply with contracts and covenants is fundamentally different from the obligation to observe the laws of nature. While the latter is taken to be a prudential obligation that is logically dependent upon t…
Thomas Hobbes
Injury, injustice, iniquity
I would like to thank all the participants, especially Johan Olsthoorn, Luciano Venezia and Adrian Blau, for their helpful comments and suggestions. In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the two anonymous referees for Intellectual History Review
Hobbes, Kant, and the Universal ‘right to all things’, or Why We Have to Leave the State of Nature
This paper discusses the juridical interpretation of Hobbes’s state of nature argument, which has been defended by commentators such as Georg Geismann, Dieter Hüning or Peter Schröder. According to the juridical interpretation, the primary reason why the Hobbesian state of nature needs to be abandoned is not that everybody’s self-preservation is constantly threatened. It is that, due to the universal right to all things, the jural order of the st…
Introduction by the Guest Editors
Moral motivation in early 18th century moral rationalism
In the modern debate in metaethics and moral psychology, moral rationalism is often presented as a view that cannot account for the intimate relation between moral behaviour on one hand and feelings, emotions, or desires on the other. Although there is no lack of references to the classic rationalists of the 18th century in the relevant discussions, the works of these writers are rarely ever examined detail. Yet, as the debate in Kant scholarship…
Are emotions necessary and sufficient for moral judgement (and what would it tell us)
The eighteenth century debate between moral rationalists and moral sentimentalists has seen a striking renaissance in the past decades, not least because of research into the nature of moral judgement conducted by empirical scientists such as social and developmental psychologists and neuroscientists. A claim that is often made in the current discussion is that the evidence made available by such empirical investigations refutes rationalist conce…
‘By parity of Reason’
According to Richard Cumberland, men’s natural law obligation to promote the common good does not derive from self-interest, but there is really no conflict between private and public happiness because the former is contained in the latter. The aim of this paper is to disentangle the various arguments supposed to support this claim and to focus specifically on the ‘parity of reason’ argument which draws upon the principle of treating like cases a…
Introduction to the Special Issue “Public Reason and Rawlsian Citizens
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (5 works) · Free Will and Agency (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (3 works)