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    The politics of skepticism in the ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant.John Christian Laursen - 1992 - New York: E.J. Brill.
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    The subversive Kant: The vocabulary of "public" and "publicity".John Christian Laursen - 1986 - Political Theory 14 (4):584-603.
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    III. The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of "Public" and "Publicity".John Christian Laursen - 1986 - Political Theory 14 (4):584-603.
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    John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman Beyond Persecuting Society. Religious Toleration before the Enlightenment.John Christian Laursen & Cary J. Nederman - 1999 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1):63-65.
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    Hume in the Prussian Academy: Jean Bernard Merian’s “On the Phenomenalism of David Hume”.John Christian Laursen, Richard H. Popkin & Peter Briscoe - 1997 - Hume Studies 23 (1):153-162.
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    Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.Cary J. Nederman & John Christian Laursen (eds.) - 1996 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This innovative collection points to the need for a reevaluation of the origins of toleration theory. Philosophers, intellectual historians, and political theorists have assumed that the development of the theory of toleration has been a product of the modern world, and John Locke is usually regarded as the first theorist of toleration. The contributors to Difference and Dissent, however, discuss a range of conceptual positions that were employed by medieval and early modern thinkers to support a theory of toleration, and (...)
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  7. Yes, skeptics can live their skepticism and cope with tyranny as well as anyone.John Christian Laursen - 2004 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo & Richard H. Popkin (eds.), Skepticism in Renaissance and post-Renaissance thought: new interpretations. Humanity Books.
     
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    Ancient Skepticism and Modern Fiction: Some Political Implications.John Christian Laursen - 2019 - Elenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 40 (1):199-215.
    This article draws out the political implications of some of the avatars of ancient skepticism in modern fiction. It relies on Martha Nussbaum’s claim that fiction can provide some of the best lessons in moral philosophy to refute her claim that ancient skepticism was a bad influence on morals. It surveys references to skepticism from Shakespeare through such diverse writers as Isabel de Charrière, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Anatole France, and Albert Camus down to recent writers such as Orhan Pamuk (...)
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    The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of "Public" and "Publicity".John Christian Laursen - 1996 - In James Schmidt (ed.), What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. University of California Press.
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  10. Scepticism and intellectual freedom-the philosophical foundations of Kant politics of publicity.John Christian Laursen - 1989 - History of Political Thought 10 (3):439-455.
  11. Skepticism and cynicism in the work of Pedro de Valencia.John Christian Laursen - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin. Brill.
     
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  12. Introduction.John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini - 2015 - In John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini (eds.), Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. University of Toronto Press.
     
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  13. David Hume on custom and habit and living with skepticism.John Christian Laursen - 2011 - Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 52:87-99.
    This article is an exploration of David Hume's philosophy of custom and habit as a way of living with skepticism. For Hume, man is a habit-forming animal, and all politics and history take place within a history of custom and habit. This is not a bad thing: life without custom and habit would be a nightmare. Hume draws on the "new science" of thinkers such as Locke, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler to foreground the importance of custom and habit. His (...)
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    Cicero in the Prussian Academy: Castillon's translation of the Academica.John Christian Laursen - 1997 - History of European Ideas 23 (2-4):117-126.
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    The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s “Treatise” from the Inside Out by Jay L. Garfield. [REVIEW]John Christian Laursen - 2023 - Hume Studies 48 (1):179-182.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s “Treatise” from the Inside Out by Jay L. GarfieldJohn Christian LaursenJay L. Garfield. The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume’s “Treatise” from the Inside Out. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 302. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0-19-093340-1, $82. This book has at least two original and great merits. One is that it is one of the first in the Hume literature to be truly global. (...)
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    Oakeshott’s Skepticism and the Skeptical Traditions.John Christian Laursen - 2005 - European Journal of Political Theory 4 (1):37-55.
    English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) called himself a skeptic at various times, and yet his writings reveal little or no engagement with either of the major Hellenistic skeptical traditions, Pyrrhonism and Academic skepticism. Although he argued that the best way to understand ourselves is to look at the mirror of our intellectual inheritance, he did not look at this one. Furthermore, commentators on Oakeshott’s skepticism have also ignored these traditions and his possible place in them. This article explores these lacunae, (...)
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    George Santayana and emotional distance in philosophy and politics.John Christian Laursen & Ramón Román Alcalá - 2015 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 40 (1):7-28.
    George Santayana appears emotionally distant and personally uncommitted in many of his writings. In what may have been a related phenomenon, he does not seem to have committed to any school of philosophy, but rather to draw from many of the available schools when it suited him. In this article, we assess his constantly changing use of different philosophies and its implications for both philosophy and politics.
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    Hume in the Prussian Academy.John Christian Laursen, Richard H. Popkin & Peter Briscoe - 1997 - Hume Studies 23 (1):153-177.
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    Blind spots in the toleration literature.John Christian Laursen - 2011 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (3):307-322.
    Classic theories of religious toleration from the 17th century regularly made exceptions for various categories of people such as Catholics and atheists who need not be tolerated. From a contemporary perspective these may be understood as blind spots because at least some of us would argue that these exceptions were not necessary. This essay explores the toleration theories of John Milton, Benedict de Spinoza, Denis Veiras, John Locke and Pierre Bayle in order to assess whether they actually called for such (...)
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  20. Property and Freedom: A Beauvoirian Critique of Hume's Theory of Justice and a Humean Answer.Dylan Meidell Rohr & John Christian Laursen - 2018 - Araucaria 20 (40).
    David Hume and Simone de Beauvoir agree that human beings have a great deal of control over their moral and political lives, which is well captured in Hume's assertion that "mankind is an inventive species". But Hume argues that the most important thing needed to settle our social lives and determine justice is the agreement on rules of property, while Beauvoir thinks that the rules of property will never be enough to establish the best life, but rather that we should (...)
     
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    La renuncia de Thomas Mann a la ironía en la política.John Christian Laursen - forthcoming - Araucaria.
    Thomas Mann desarolló una de las teorías más sútiles de la ironía durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, declarando que la mejor ironía era la ironía contra los dos lados de cualquier asunto. Tal ironía no era incompatible con el amor por la humanidad, y aun por ambas partes. Podría justificarse a Mann por usar la ironía contra ambos bandos de esa guerra. Pero tras el ascenso nazi, Mann abandonó la ironía contra los dos bandos e ironizó solo contra el de (...)
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  22. Cynicism Then and Now.John Christian Laursen - 2009 - Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2):469-482.
    Ancient cynicism was a moralistic school of ascetic and anti-materialistic gadflies and critics. Modern cynicism is generally understood as amoral, selfish, and manipulative. This article explores the change in meaning that led from one to the other, and what each kind of cynicism could mean for contemporary life. It is very unlikely that most people would ever adopt the values and ways of the ancient cynics, but there may still be something to be gained from the few who might engage (...)
     
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    Sources of knowledge of sextus empiricus in Kant's time: A French translation of sextus empiricus from the Prussian academy, 1779.John Christian Laursen & Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (2):261 – 267.
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    Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century.Maria Luisa Pesante, John Brewer, Dena Goodman, Malcolm Cook, Vivien Jones, Ursula Vogel, John Christian Laursen & Edoardo Tortarolo - 1995 - University of Exeter Press.
    "The book mounts a challenge to the notion of a clear distinction between public and private and attempts to account for the mobility of the many boundaries between the two. The first essay introduces some of those problematic boundaries in the light of the influential studies of Habermas, Koselleck, Aries and Chartier, who together have helped shape our understanding of the formation of the modern public and private spheres. A number of essays deal with the nature of public opinion in (...)
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  25. Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Vol. I: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World. Vol. II: Catholic Millenarianism: From Savonarola to the Abbé Grégoire. Vol. III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Vol. IV: Continental Millenarians: Protestants, Catholics, Heretics. [REVIEW]Matt Goldish, Richard Popkin, Karl A. Kottman, James E. Force, Richard H. Popkin & John Christian Laursen - 2003 - Utopian Studies 14 (2):191-193.
  26. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin's Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteetn-Century Germany.John Christian Laursen - 2015 - In John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini (eds.), Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. University of Toronto Press.
     
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  27. Kant, freedom of the press, and book piracy.John Christian Laursen - 2012 - In Elisabeth Ellis (ed.), Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications. Pennsylvania State University Press.
  28. Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.John Christian Laursen & Gianni Paganini (eds.) - 2015 - Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
    Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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  29. Thomas M. Lennon, Reading Bayle.John Christian Laursen - 2000 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2):278-279.
  30. Thomas Mann's Retreat from Irony in Politics.John Christian Laursen - 2022 - Araucaria 24 (49).
    Thomas Mann developed one of the most subtle theories of irony during World War I, concluding that the best irony was irony against both sides of any issue. Such irony was not inconsistent with love for humanity, and even for both sides. He may well have been justified in using irony against both sides in that war. But with the rise of the Nazis, he abandoned two-sided irony and used his irony mostly against them. One the one hand, this meant (...)
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    Skepticism in the Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin.José Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.) - 2009 - Boston: Brill.
    This book reassesses the role and impact of skepticism in early modern philosophy, revisiting and reinterpreting the positions of some of the main early modern philosophers in relation to this tradition and showing its relevance to others who have not previously been connected to skepticism.
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    Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin.Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.) - 2009 - Boston: Brill.
    This book reassesses the role and impact of skepticism in early modern philosophy, revisiting and reinterpreting the positions of some of the main early modern ...
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  33. Clandestine philosophy: new studies on subversive manuscripts in early modern Europe, 1620-1823.Gianni Paganini, Margaret C. Jacob & John Christian Laursen (eds.) - 2020 - London: University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
    Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. (...)
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  34. Denis Diderot on War and Peace: Nature and Morality / Guerra y paz en Denis Diderot: naturaleza y moralidad.Whitney Mannies & John Christian Laursen - 2014 - Araucaria 16 (32).
    Denis Diderot’s ideas about war and peace crystalize many of the contradictions in the world that he identified. On the one hand, war is a natural product of contradictions between natural law and human developments. On the other hand, it can and should always be subject to moral judgment based on a wide-ranging knowledge of history and context. War can be good if it eliminates tyranny, and bad if it limits freedom, equality, and prosperity. Peace can be good if it (...)
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  35. Introduction.José R. Maia Neto, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the Modern Age: Building on the Work of Richard Popkin. Brill.
     
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    Luxdorph's Press Freedom Writings: Before the Fall of Struensee in Early 1770s Denmark-Norway.John Christian Laursen - 2002 - The European Legacy 7 (1):61-77.
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    J.b. Schneewind: The invention of autonomy: A history of modern moral philosophy. [REVIEW]John Christian Laursen - 1999 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (2):179-181.
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    PART I: Pierre Bayle’s Reply of a New Convert : Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by John Christian Laursen.John Christian Laursen - 2017 - History of European Ideas 43 (8):857-883.
    ABSTRACTThis is the first English translation of Pierre Bayle’s political pamphlet, Réponse d’un nouveau converti à la Lettre d’un refugié of 1689. It may be one of the most critical attacks on a writer’s own side in the history of political ideas. It is a stinging rebuke of Bayle’s own party, the Protestants, for their incoherence, hypocrisy, and violence. It came three years after his similarly savage refutation of the Catholics in The Condition of Wholly Catholic France, also recently published (...)
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    Georg Cavallar, Imperfect Cosmopolis: Studies In The History Of International Legal Theory And Cosmopolitan Ideas, Cardiff: University Of Wales Press, 2011 Pp. 240 Isbn 9780708323670 £75.00. [REVIEW]John Christian Laursen - 2012 - Kantian Review 17 (3):516-519.
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    Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius. [REVIEW]John Christian Laursen - forthcoming - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism.
  41. The Archeology of Skepticism.John Christian Laursen - 2010 - Iris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 2 (3):197-203.
    Skepticism is a central aspect of our intellectual heritage, even if many of us do not recognize it. Only in recent decades has the intellectual archeology been done that enables to see this part of our heritage and its role in how we came to think the way we do. Gianni Paganini's Skepsis . Le debat des modernes sur le scepticisme (2008) is the most important recent work in this archeology, bringing out the role of early modern thinkers from Montaigne (...)
     
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    Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754): learning and literature in the Nordic enlightenment, edited by Knud Haakonssen and Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen. [REVIEW]John Christian Laursen - 2018 - Intellectual History Review 28 (2):339-340.
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    Brian Ribeiro, Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers.John Christian Laursen - 2022 - Journal of Scottish Philosophy 20 (3):269-272.
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    Empires for Peace: Denis Veiras’s Borrowings from Garcilaso de la Vega.John Christian Laursen & Kevin Pham - 2017 - The European Legacy 22 (4):427-442.
    Writing The History of the Sevarambians in the 1670s, the Huguenot Denis Veiras borrowed many ideas from Garcilaso de la Vega, also known as El Inca, whose Royal Commentaries of the Incas was published in 1609. Both works describe the history of an empire and justify it on the ground that it brought peace and unity. While Garcilaso’s book purported to be a history, his selection of facts reflected his goal of improving the treatment of the Incas by the Spanish. (...)
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    Isabelle de Charrière and Skepticism in the Literary Life.John Christian Laursen - 2020 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 10 (3-4):256-267.
    This article explores some senses in which Isabelle de Charrière may be understood as a skeptic in her personal life and in her literary life, although the two cannot really be separated since she lived the literary life. She called herself a skeptic a number of times, and also showed some knowledge of the Academic or Socratic and especially of the Pyrrhonian traditions of skepticism in her novels and extensive correspondence. This Dutch-Swiss writer provides an example of what it might (...)
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    Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius, written by Pierre Bayle.John Christian Laursen - 2018 - International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 8 (1):63-65.
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    Bayle philosophe, and: Teologia senza verita: Bayle contro i "rationaux" (review).John Christian Laursen - 2001 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (1):146-149.
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    Against the Ethicists , and: Contro gli etici.John Christian Laursen - 1998 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2):313-315.
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    Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy, and: Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptics (review).John Christian Laursen - 2002 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1):116-118.
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    David Hume and public debt: crying wolf?John Christian Laursen & Greg Coolidge - 1994 - Hume Studies 20 (1):143-149.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume XX, Number 1, April 1994, pp. 143-149 David Hume and Public Debt: Crying Wolf? JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSEN and GREG COOLIDGE David Hume's views on public credit have not only received prominent attention in the literature on his political thought, but have even been the subject of attention in The Wall Street Journal.1 Most of the attention has centered on Hume's essay "Of Public Credit" of 1752, (...)
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