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    Friendship, Altruism, and Morality.Laurence Thomas - 1983 - Philosophical Review 92 (1):135.
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    Pride, Shame and Guilt: Emotions of Self-Assessment.Laurence Thomas - 1988 - Philosophical Review 97 (4):585.
  3. Moral deference.Laurence Thomas - 1993 - Philosophical Forum 24 (1-3):232-250.
     
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  4. Friendship.Laurence Thomas - 1987 - Synthese 72 (2):217 - 236.
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    Living morally: a psychology of moral character.Laurence Thomas - 1989 - Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
    CHAPTER ONE Moral Character and Moral Theories Social interaction is the thread from which the fabric of moral character is woven.1 For it is social ...
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    Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust.Laurence Thomas - 1996 - Ethics 106 (2):424-448.
    Two profound atrocities in the history of Western culture form the subject of this moving philosophical exploration: American Slavery and the Holocaust. An African American and a Jew, Laurence Mordekhai Thomas denounces efforts to place the suffering of one group above the other. Rather, he pronounces these two defining historical experiences as profoundly evil in radically different ways and points to their logically incompatible aims. The author begins with a discussion of the nature of evil, exploring the fragility of human (...)
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  7. Friendship and other loves.Laurence Thomas - 1993 - In Neera Kapur Badhwar (ed.), Friendship: a philosophical reader. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. pp. 48--64.
     
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  8. Morality and a Meaningful Life.Laurence Thomas - 2005 - Philosophical Papers 34 (3):405-427.
  9. Self Respect: Theory and Practice.Laurence Thomas - 2015 - In Tommy J. Curry & Leonard Harris (eds.), Philosophy Born of Struggle.
     
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  10. The Character of Friendship.Laurence Thomas - forthcoming - In Danian Caluori (ed.), Thinking About Friendship: Historical and Contemporary Prespectives. Palgrave MacMillon.
    This essay discusss (1) the differences and commonalities between romantic love and friendship and (2) the differences and commonalities between parental love of friendship.
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    Statistical badness.Laurence Thomas - 1992 - Journal of Social Philosophy 23 (1):30-41.
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    Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card.Todd Calder, Claudia Card, Ann Cudd, Eric Kraemer, Alice MacLachlan, Sarah Clark Miller, María Pía Lara, Robin May Schott, Laurence Thomas & Lynne Tirrell - 2009 - Lexington Books.
    Rather than focusing on political and legal debates surrounding attempts to determine if and when genocidal rape has taken place in a particular setting, this essay turns instead to a crucial, yet neglected area of inquiry: the moral significance of genocidal rape, and more specifically, the nature of the harms that constitute the culpable wrongdoing that genocidal rape represents. In contrast to standard philosophical accounts, which tend to employ an individualistic framework, this essay offers a situated understanding of harm that (...)
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    Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment.Michael McFall & Laurence Thomas - 2009 - Lexington Books.
    This book examines the negative power that child maltreatment has on individuals and society ethically and politically, while analyzing the positive power that parental love and healthy families have. To address how best to confront the problem of child maltreatment, it examines several policy options, ultimately defending a policy of licensing parents, while carefully examining the tension between child and adult rights and duties.
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    Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy.Anita Allen, Bernard Boxill, Joshua Cohen, R. M. Hare, Bill Lawson, Tommy Lott, Howard McGary, Julius Moravcsik, Laurence Thomas, William Uzgalis, Julie Ward, Bernard Williams & Cynthia Willett (eds.) - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the question of what is wrong with slavery by critically examining, and in some cases endorsing, certain (...)
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  15. (1 other version)Sexism and racism: Some conceptual differences.Laurence Thomas - 1980 - Ethics 90 (2):239-250.
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    Moral Motivation: Kantians versus Humeans (and Evolution).Laurence Thomas - 1988 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1):367-383.
  17. The Family and the Political Self.Laurence Thomas - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.
    Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. One truth is that human beings may not be as self-interested as is commonly supposed. In this book Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth.
     
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  18. Moral Equality and Natural Inferiority.Laurence Thomas - 2005 - Social Theory and Practice 31 (3):379-404.
    This essay is a commentary upon "Race and Kant" by Thomas Hill, Jr and Bernard Boxill. They argue that although Kant in his anthropological writings took blacks to be inferior, his moral theory requires that they be shown the proper moral respect since blacks are persons nonetheless. I argue that this argument is sound, because the conception of inferiority that Kant attributed to blacks does not permit showing them the proper moral respect. Imagine a defective Mercedes Benz and a Ford (...)
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    Biological Moralism.Laurence Thomas - 1986 - Biology and Philosophy 1 (3):316.
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    Abortion and Moral Theory.Laurence Thomas - 1983 - Noûs 17 (2):323-330.
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  21. Friendship in the Shadow of Technology.Laurence Thomas - 1981 - In John Arthur & Steven Scalet (eds.), Morality and Moral Controversies: Readings in Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy. New York: Pearson Prentice Hall.
    This essay looks at the impact that technology is having upon friendship. For as we all know, it is nothing at all to see friends at a restaurant table all engaged in texting rather than talking to one another.
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    Morality, consistency, and the self: A lesson from rectification.Laurence Thomas - 2001 - Journal of Social Philosophy 32 (3):374–381.
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    Trust and survival: Securing a vision of the good society.Laurence Thomas - 1989 - Journal of Social Philosophy 20 (1-2):34-41.
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  24. Self-respect, fairness, and living morally.Laurence M. Thomas - 2003 - In Tommy Lee Lott & John P. Pittman (eds.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
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    The Reality of the Moral Self.Laurence Thomas - 1993 - The Monist 76 (1):3-21.
    Ethical egoism and Kantian ethics constitute radically different and incompatible moral traditions. Speaking rather broadly, one might go so far as to say that each tradition is a source of inspiration for criticisms of the other, each tradition reminding us of the limitations of the other. For Kantian ethics, with its extreme other-regarding and abstract approach to morality, would sometimes seem to lose sight of the self, leaving a self that seems somewhat eviscerated. Ethical egosim, by contrast, with its extreme (...)
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    Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy.Laurence Thomas (ed.) - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    In this important and engaging volume, international scholars present opposing viewpoints to debate ten of the most important issues in contemporary social philosophy. Provides an original analysis of some of society’s most pressing issues Written by an outstanding cast of international scholars Issues covered include the nature of freedom, the limits of religious tolerance, affirmative action, parenting, the death penalty, privacy, violence, world hunger, social diversity, homosexuality, and abortion Invites the reader to participate in the exchange of arguments.
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  27. Atrocities.Laurence Thomas - 2009 - In Clifton Bryant Dennis Peck (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Sage Publication.
    This essay discusses the character of many atrocities that have occurred throughout human history.
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    Equality and the mantra of diversity.Laurence Thomas - 2003
    This essay is part of a symposium on affirmative action that took place at the University of Cincinnati with the distinguished legal scholar Ronald Dworkin. I argue against affirmative action. And I discuss at length the votes of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas. I develop the idea of idiosyncratic excellence; and I argue that diversity is a weakness insofar as it (a) an excuse for social myopia and (b)an impediment to individuals seeing beyond their (...)
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    Law, Morality and Our Psychological Nature.Laurence Thomas - 1982 - Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 4:111-123.
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    Rationality and Affectivity: The Metaphysics of the Moral Self.Laurence Thomas - 1988 - Social Philosophy and Policy 5 (2):154.
    There is a way of doing moral philosophy which goes something like this: If it can be shown that it is rational for perfectly selfish people to accept the constraints of morality, then it will follow, a fortiori, that it is rational for people capable of affective bonds, and thus less selfish, to do so. On this way of proceeding the real argument – that is, the argument for the actual constraints to be adopted – proceeds with only fully rational (...)
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  31. Sexual desire, moral choice, and human ends.Laurence Thomas - 2002 - Journal of Social Philosophy 33 (2):178–192.
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    Moral Behavior and Rational Creatures of the Universe.Laurence Thomas - 1988 - The Monist 71 (1):59-71.
  33. What good am I?Laurence Thomas - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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    Self‐Deception as the Handmaiden of Evil.Laurence Thomas - 2012 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 36 (1):53-61.
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    Evil and the Concept of a Human Person.Laurence Thomas - 1995 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 20 (1):36-58.
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    Case Studies: Should States Require Child Passenger Protection?Jerome A. Paulson & Laurence Thomas - 1981 - Hastings Center Report 11 (3):21.
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    Letters to the Editor.Mary Varney Rorty, Zahava K. McKeon & Laurence Thomas - 1988 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (3):557 - 559.
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    Animals and Animals.Laurence Thomas - 2010 - Between the Species 13 (10):11.
    Speciesism is the wrong of not acknowledging the moral qualities that non-human animals possess that are similar or equivalent or even superior to the moral qualities that human beings possess. However, since it is manifestly clear that no one thinks that apes are in any way obligated to human beings, it clearly cannot be a form of speciesism to be mindful of the differences on the basis of which that is so. In opposition to the advocates of the Great Ape (...)
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  39. Autonomy, Moral Behavior & the Self.Laurence Thomas - unknown
    UTONOMY IS VERY HIGHLY PRAISED as something that it is always good to have, and always good to have more of rather than less of.1 The idea seems to be that persons should be autonomous whatever else they might be, and that should act autonomously whatever else it is that they might do. Kantians are fond of saying that a person is autonomous if she or he chooses to live in accordance with the dictates of reason. This, in turn, directly (...)
     
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  40. (1 other version)Acts, Omissions, and Common Sense Morality.Laurence Thomas - 1982 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 8:37.
     
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    American slavery and the Holocaust: Their ideologies compared.Laurence Thomas - 1991 - Public Affairs Quarterly 5 (2):191-210.
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    A tribute.Laurence Thomas - 1987 - Synthese 72 (1):1 - 4.
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    Becoming an Evil Society.Laurence Thomas - 1996 - Political Theory 24 (2):271-294.
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    Beliefs and the Motivation to Be Just.Laurence Thomas - 1985 - American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (4):347 - 352.
  45. [Book Chapter].Laurence Thomas - 2002
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    Being moral and handling the truth.Laurence Thomas - 2013 - Social Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2):1-20.
    It is generally agreed that Kant went too far in his claim that it is wrong to lie even if doing so will save an individual's life. The question remains whether it is morally permissible to tell a lie even if this does not involve saving the life of another individual. In this essay, I seek to answer this question affirmatively while at the same time setting strong constraints for when a lie (not involving saving a life) is morally permissible. (...)
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    Commencement.Laurence W. Thomas - 1980 - Educational Studies 11 (2):160-160.
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    (1 other version)Capitalism versus Marx's communism.Laurence Thomas - 1979 - Studies in East European Thought 20 (1):67-79.
    In this paper, I have assessed Marx's criticism of capitalism, and the practice of divided labor, from the standpoint of two important senses of worth which persons can have, namely self-respect and self-esteem. I have tried to show that in either case, Communism, as Marx envisioned it, is not the superior to capitalism he might have supposed. Along the way, I hope to have also shown the importance of distinguishing between two concepts, namely self-respect and self-esteem.
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    Doing justice to Egoism.Laurence Thomas - 1989 - Journal of Philosophy 86 (10):551-552.
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    Dr. Laura: Ruminations from a listener.Laurence Thomas - 2004
    This essay is a discussion of the radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger. It is an assessment of the moral advice that she dispenses her radio show, and kinds of criticisms to which she has been subjected.
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