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  1. The coherence of a mind: John Locke and the law of nature.Alex Scott Tuckness - 1999 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (1):73-90.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Coherence of a Mind: John Locke and the Law of Nature*Alex Tucknessit is almost thirty years since John Dunn’s book, The Political Thought of John Locke, argued that a more coherent understanding of Locke was possible if his religious beliefs were taken to play a crucial role in his political theory.1 Since that time many scholars have expanded our historical knowledge of the role of religion in Locke’s (...)
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    Locke's political philosophy.Alex Tuckness - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Locke and the Legislative Point of View: Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law.Alex Tuckness - 2002 - Princeton University Press.
    Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke's potential contribution to this debate--what Tuckness terms the "legislative point of view"--has long been obscured by overemphasis on his doctrine of consent. Building on a line of reasoning Locke made explicit (...)
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  4. Discourses of Resistance in the American Revolution.Alex Scott Tuckness - 2003 - Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (4):547-563.
    Debates over whether the discourse used to justify resistance during the American Revolution was "liberal" or "republican" often obscure the more central question of why and how early American thinkers were able to combine strands of political thought that many modern scholars find contradictory. The arguments the Americans used to justify resistance are better understood as falling into four types that were not understood to be mutually exclusive: Lockean, Biblical, legal/historical, and republican. Locke's ideas often provided an organizing framework within (...)
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  5. Historical perspectives in political philosophy.Alex Tuckness - 2017 - In Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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  6. John Locke.Alex Tuckness - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
     
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    Legislation and non-neutral principles: A Lockean approach.Alex Tuckness - 2000 - Journal of Political Philosophy 8 (3):363–378.
    When citizens and legislators attempt to justify coercive acts, such as fines or imprisonment, they often do so on the basis of controversial justificatory principles. There are at least two ways a principle can be controversial: one may claim that the principle in question is false; or one may claim that the principle, correctly applied, does not actually justify the specific act in question. Thus, suppose the state invokes the principle ‘false beliefs should be censored’ to justify silencing a dissident. (...)
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    4. Locke’s Main Argument for Toleration.Alex Tuckness - 2022 - In Melissa S. Williams & Jeremy Waldron (eds.), Toleration and its Limits: Nomos Xlviii. New York University Press. pp. 114-138.
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    Locke on Toleration.Alex Tuckness - 2015 - In Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Blackwell. pp. 433–447.
    John Locke figures prominently in accounts of the development of the principle of religious toleration in liberal societies. Locke's first published essays were on the subject of toleration, specifically on the question of whether the magistrate had the right to regulate the behavior of citizens in ecclesiastical matters about which the Bible does not directly speak, such as whether to use the book of common prayer, the proper physical position for taking communion, the wearing of surplices, and so on. In (...)
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    Morality as Legislation: Rules and Consequences.Alex Tuckness - 2021 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    'What would happen if everyone acted that way?' This question is often used in everyday moral assessments, but it has a paradoxical quality: it draws not only on Kantian ideas of a universal moral law but also on consequentialist claims that what is right depends on the outcome. In this book, Alex Tuckness examines how the question came to be seen as paradoxical, tracing its history from the theistic approaches of the seventeenth century to the secular accounts of the present. (...)
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  11. Retribution and restitution in Locke’s theory of punishment.Alex Tuckness - 2010 - Journal of Politics 72 (3):720–32.
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    The Decline of Mercy in Public Life.Alex Tuckness & John M. Parrish - 2014 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    The virtue of mercy is widely admired, but is now marginalized in contemporary public life. Yet for centuries it held a secure place in western public discourse without implying a necessary contradiction with justice. Alex Tuckness and John M. Parrish ask how and why this changed. Examining Christian and non-Christian ancient traditions, along with Kantian and utilitarian strains of thought, they offer a persuasive account of how our perception of mercy has been transformed by Enlightenment conceptions of impartiality and equality (...)
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    This is political philosophy: an introduction.Alex Scott Tuckness - 2016 - Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, Blackwell. Edited by Clark Wolf.
    This is Political Philosophy is an accessible and well-balanced introduction to the main issues in political philosophy written by an author team from the fields of both philosophy and politics. This text connects issues at the core of political philosophy with current, live debates in policy, politics, and law and addresses different ideals of political organization, such as democracy, liberty, equality, justice, and happiness. Written with great clarity, This is Political Philosophy is accessible and engaging to those who have little (...)
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  14. Toleration, Morality, and the Law: A Lockean Approach.Alex Scott Tuckness - 1999 - Dissertation, Princeton University
    Toleration is one possible response to diversity, and it is a defining feature of contemporary liberal democracies. Still, why we should tolerate and what we should tolerate are persistent political questions. This dissertation explores the reasons why citizens should sometimes refrain from embodying in law moral beliefs that they hold to be true. It claims that a neglected aspect of John Locke's writings on religious toleration, the formal relationship between moral principles and law, can instruct political deliberation. Since this portion (...)
     
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