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    Finding a Reasonable Foundation for Peace.Roberta Bayer - 2017 - Studia Gilsoniana 6 (1):7-30.
    Can world peace come about through a world federation of governments? Is growing agreement and appreciation for, throughout the world, the doctrine of equal human rights inevitable? Such questions are raised by Mortimer Adler in How to Think about War and Peace. Adler argues in this book that both are possible, and in doing so he argues that the insights of liberal contract thinkers, particularly Immanuel Kant, are essentially true. Kant argues that each person has the capacity to discover within (...)
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    George Grant: A Guide to His Thought.Roberta Bayer - 2008 - International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (4):542-544.
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  3. George Parkin Grant: A Platonist for Our Time.Roberta Lynne Bayer - 1999 - Dissertation, University of Notre Dame
    This dissertation is about the influence of the philosophy of Plato, and his description of the Idea of the Good, on the political thought of George Parkin Grant. Grant was a Canadian thinker who had an individual and idiosyncratic interpretation of Plato which he used to address the apparently irreconcilable tension that exists in modern philosophy between truths of faith and truths of reason. His attempt to reconcile what he labeled the "ethical-religious" approach to truth with the "cosmological" approach led (...)
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    The Common Sense American Republic: The Political Philosophy of James Wilson (1742-1798).Roberta Bayer - 2015 - Studia Gilsoniana 4 (3):187–207.
    James Wilson (1742-1798), lawyer, Justice of the first Supreme Court of the United States, and Constitutional Framer argued, as did Étienne Gilson, that a citizenry who have adopted philosophical skepticism will lose their political freedom, as self-rule requires that citizens be able to reason rightly about the natural law. He advocated a common sense philosophical education in natural law for all lawyers, so that they might know the first principles of moral reasoning.
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