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    BEPS, tax sovereignty and global justice.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2018 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (4):478-499.
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    ‘This man is my property’: Slavery and political absolutism in Locke and the classical social contract tradition.Johan Olsthoorn & Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2022 - European Journal of Political Theory 21 (2):253-275.
    It is morally impossible, Locke argued, for individuals to consensually establish absolute rule over themselves. That would be to transfer to rulers a power that is not ours, but God’s alone: ownership of our lives. This article analyses the conceptual presuppositions of Locke’s argument for the moral impossibility of self-enslavement through a comparison with other classical social contract theorists, including Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf. Despite notoriously defending the permissibility of voluntary enslavement of individuals and even entire peoples, Grotius similarly endorsed (...)
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    On the person and office of the sovereign in Hobbes’ Leviathan.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2020 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (1):49-68.
    ABSTRACTI contextualize and interpret the distinction in Hobbes’ Leviathan between the capacities of the sovereign and show its importance for contemporary debates on the nature of Hobbesian sovereignty. Hobbes distinguishes between actions the sovereign does on personal title, and actions he undertakes in a political capacity. I argue that, like royalists defending King Charles I before and during the English civil war, he maintains that the highest magistrate is sovereign in both his natural and political capacities because the capacities are (...)
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    Hobbes on Property: Between Legal Certainty and Sovereign Discretion.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2021 - Hobbes Studies 34 (1):58-79.
    Hobbes treats individual property as regulated by stable law, yet dependent on the arbitrary will of the sovereign. In this paper I catalogue the different definitions of property present in his main political and legal works – The Elements of Law, De Cive, Leviathan and A Dialogue between a philosopher and a student – with the aim of showing how he attempted to square those commitments. I record how the definitions of property affect his views about how sovereigns hold property, (...)
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    Reconsidering Hobbes’s Account of Practical Deliberation.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2012 - Hobbes Studies 25 (2):143-165.
    Thomas Hobbes has been frequently criticised for his account of deliberation that purportedly consists merely of, in his own words, an ‘alternate succession of appetite and fear’ and therefore lacks the judgement and reflection commentators think is essential if he is to provide an adequate treatment of practical rationality. In this paper Hobbes’s account of deliberation is analysed in detail and it is argued that it is not vulnerable to this critique. Hobbes takes so-called ‘mental discourse’ to be partly constitutive (...)
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    Rationality and Freedom in Hobbes's Theory of Action.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2014 - History of European Ideas 40 (5):603-621.
    SummaryThomas Hobbes's theory of action seems to give up on the idea that actions are ‘up to us’. Thomas Pink has argued that this counter-intuitive stance should be understood as the implication of his radical assault on the scholastic Aristotelian model of action. Hobbes rejects the existence of the immaterial soul. This means that he must also reject the existence of so-called elicited acts of the will, which form the primary locus of human agency. In this paper an alternative interpretation (...)
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  7. Introduction.Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass - 2018 - In Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass (eds.), Hobbes on Politics and Religion. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Hobbes on the Scientific Study of the Human Mind.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2015 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 97 (3).
    Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 97 Heft: 3 Seiten: 308-333.
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    Hobbes on treason and fundamental law.Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2023 - Intellectual History Review 33 (2):183-203.
    This article considers Hobbes’ contribution to the development of constitutionalist thought by contextualizing his treatment of the concepts of treason and fundamental law in De cive (1642, 2nd ed. 1647) and Leviathan (1651). While in Leviathan he adopts the controversial conception of treason as a violation of fundamental law that had been employed to convict Charles I of high treason in 1649, he draws on the original meaning of the term “fundamental law”, as outlined in the most influential early analysis (...)
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    The Value of Methodological Pluralism in the Study of Locke on Slavery and Absolutism.Johan Olsthoorn & Laurens Van Apeldoorn - 2021 - Locke Studies 21:88-104.
    This article offers a rejoinder to Felix Waldmann. In a critical note published in Locke Studies, Waldmann challenges our recent reconstruction of Locke’s thesis, developed across the Second Treatise of Government, that humans cannot possibly agree to subject themselves to absolute rule. Call this thesis No Contractual Absolutism. Our reconstruction, Waldmann objects, “neglects a basic datum of scholarship”: i.e., that Locke’s Second Treatise intended to counter Filmer’s political theory. Our reply is two-pronged. First, we argue that No Contractual Absolutism cannot (...)
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    Hobbes on Politics and Religion.Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass (eds.) - 2018 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    Thomas Hobbes, one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy, is still widely regarded as a predominantly secular thinker. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address problems of a distinctively religious nature. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the complex and rich intersections between Hobbes's political and religious thought. Written by experts in the field, the volume opens up new directions for thinking about his treatment (...)
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    Science, politics, and the economy: the unintended consequences of a diabolic paradox.Laurens Van Apeldoorn, Harro Maas & Johan Olsthoorn - 2016 - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 9 (1).
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    The European Hobbes Society.Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass - 2018 - Hobbes Studies 31 (2):217-220.
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    M. Brito Vieira, The Elements of Representation in Hobbes: Aesthetics, Theatre, Law, and Theology in the Construction of Hobbes’s Theory of the State, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009, xvi + 286 pp. ISBN-13: 978-90-04-18174-8, hardcover. [REVIEW]Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2013 - Hobbes Studies 26 (2):185-189.
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    Taxing Profit in a Global Economy, M. Devereux, A. Auerbach, M. Keen, P. Oosterhuis, W. Schön and J. Vella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. [REVIEW]Laurens van Apeldoorn - 2022 - Economics and Philosophy 38 (3):513-519.