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Alan Gewirth

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#213

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PhD Philosophy Columbia University
Bachelors Philosophy University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Alan Gewirth was an American philosopher, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality , Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications , The Community of Rights , Self-Fulfillment , and numerous other writings in moral philosophy and political philosophy.

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Alan Gewirth's Published Works

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Reason and Morality (1979) (502)
Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications (1982) (207)
The community of rights (1996) (170)
Are there any Absolute Rights (1981) (114)
Ethical Universalism and Particularism (1988) (101)
A Theory of Reasons for Action. (1973) (100)
The Epistemology of Human Rights (1984) (61)
Is Cultural Pluralism Relevant to Moral Knowledge? (1994) (44)
Professional Ethics: The Separatist Thesis (1986) (43)
The Cartesian Circle Reconsidered (1970) (39)
Rights and Virtues (1984) (33)
The 'Is-Ought' Problem Resolved (1973) (32)
The rationality of reasonableness (1983) (30)
THE GOLDEN RULE RATIONALIZED (1978) (26)
Clearness and Distinctness in Descartes (1943) (25)
Marsilius of Padua. (1953) (24)
Can Any Final Ends be Rational? (1991) (21)
Positive "Ethics" and Normative "Science" (1960) (20)
THE BASIS AND CONTENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS * (2005) (18)
Marsilius of Padua and medieval political philosophy (1951) (17)
Why Rights are Indispensable (1986) (16)
The justification of morality (1988) (14)
Can Men Change Laws of Social Science? (1954) (14)
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of Peace (1967) (14)
Private Philanthropy and Positive Rights (1987) (13)
Are All Rights Positive? (2001) (13)
IV.—META-ETHICS AND NORMATIVE ETHICS (1960) (12)
Human rights and the prevention of cancer. (1980) (12)
Why There Are Human Rights (1985) (12)
Human rights and the workplace. (1986) (12)
Metaethics and Moral Neutrality (1968) (9)
Moral Foundations of Civil Rights Law (1987) (9)
Descartes: Two Disputed Questions (1971) (9)
The Generalization Principle (1964) (8)
The defensor pacis (1956) (8)
Chapter 1. COMMON MORALITY AND THE COMMUNITY OF RIGHTS (1992) (7)
There are Absolute Rights (1982) (7)
Civil Disobedience, Law, And Morality: An Examination of Justice Fortas' Doctrine (1970) (7)
Categorial Consistency in Ethics (1967) (7)
Confidentiality in Child‐Welfare Practice (2001) (6)
The Distinction Between Analytic and Synthetic Truths (1953) (6)
Subjectivism and Objectivism in the Social Sciences (1954) (6)
Benedict De Spinoza: The Political Works. (1960) (5)
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of Peace. Vol. I: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy (1952) (5)
John of Jandun and the Defensor Pacis (1948) (5)
The Future of Ethics: The Moral Powers of Reason (1981) (4)
Rights and Duties (1988) (4)
Action and Rights: A Reply (1976) (3)
From the Prudential to the Moral: Reply to Singer (1985) (2)
Political Power and Democratic Psychiatry (1949) (2)
Practical Philosophy, Civil Liberties, and Poverty (1984) (2)
The moral basis of liberal education (1994) (2)
The non-trivializability of universalizability (1969) (2)
The Quest for Specificity in Jurisprudence (1959) (2)
Human rights and conceptions of the self (1988) (2)
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of Peace. Volume I, Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy (1951) (1)
The Ontological Basis of Natural Law: A Critique and an Alternative (1984) (1)
The Egoist's objection (1993) (1)
On Deriving a Morally Significant ‘Ought’ (1979) (1)
Morality and autonomy in education (2010) (1)
Limitations of the Moral Point of View (1980) (1)
‘Ought’ and Reasons for Action (1997) (1)
Aristotle's Doctrine of Being (1953) (1)
Book Review:Republican Ideas and the Liberal Tradition in France, 1870-1914. John A. Scott (1952) (1)
Reason and Nuclear Deterrence (1986) (1)
The child in biological and moral contexts (2005) (1)
Why Agents Must Claim Rights: A Reply (1982) (0)
Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of Peace. Volume I: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy. (1953) (0)
Chapter 5. Ultimate Values, Rights, and Reason (2009) (0)
Chapter 3. Capacity-Fulfillment and Universalist Morality (2009) (0)
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, and, On the Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence. John AustinJurisprudence: Men and Ideas of the Law. Edwin W. Patterson (1957) (0)
The Language of Morals. R. M. Hare (1954) (0)
Some Comments on Categorical Consistency (1970) (0)
CHAPTER VI. THE GOVERNMENT (1951) (0)
The immoral sense (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Meaning of Human History. Morris R. Cohen (1948) (0)
A Brief Rejoinder (1985) (0)
Chapter 2. Self-Fulfillment as Aspiration-Fulfillment (2009) (0)
Book Review:The Survival of Political Man. Errol E. Harris (1950) (0)
PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (2007) (0)
Book Review:Ought, Reasons, and Morality: The Collected Papers of W. D. Falk. W. D. Falk (1987) (0)
The Agent Prescriber's “Ought” (1998) (0)
REASON AND MORALITY: REJOINDER TO E. J. BOND (1980) (0)
Book Review:Masters of Political Thought, Vol. II: Machiavelli to Bentham. W. T. Jones (1948) (0)
On Rational Agency as the Basis of Moral Equality: Reply to Ben Zeev (1982) (0)
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace. Volume II, The Defensor Pacis (1958) (0)
Chapter 1. The Ideal of Self-Fulfillment (2009) (0)
The Case for Conservatism. Francis Graham Wilson (1951) (0)
Book Review:An Historical Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Hugh Miller (1948) (0)
Cartesian Studies. Albert G. A. BalzDescartes and the Modern Mind. Albert G. A. Balz (1953) (0)
The Psychological Approach to Politics (1949) (0)
Shorter Notices (1950) (0)
Chapter 4. Capacity-Fulfillment and the Good Life (2009) (0)
Networking Ethics and Governance in Catastrophic Disaster Responses: An Ethical Perspective on Governance in the Haiti 2010 Earthquake (2012) (0)
Book Review:Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory. Max Hamburger (1951) (0)
Book Review:The New Science of Politics: An Introduction. Eric Voegelin (1953) (0)
Replies to comments (1994) (0)
The Right to Community (1997) (0)
Books Received (1950) (0)
Selected Political Writings. Thomas Aquinas (1949) (0)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics. Lewis Samuel Feuer (1956) (0)
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of Peace. Volume I: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy (1951) (0)
Meanings and Criteria in Ethics (1963) (0)
A Political Theory of Rights. By Attracta Ingram. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994. 232p. $59.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. (1995) (0)
The constitutive metaphysics of ethics (1993) (0)
On deriving rights to goods from rights to freedom (2002) (0)
Brian Tierney, The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150–1625 . (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion, 5.) Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, for Emory University, 1997. Paper. Pp. xi, 380. $24.95. (1999) (0)
Reply to Frederic G. Reamer (2001) (0)
Justice: Its Conditions and Contents (2007) (0)
Book Review:Main Currents in Modern Political Thought. John H. Hallowell (1951) (0)
Reply to Danto (1984) (0)
COMMENTS ON BOND'S ARTICLE (1980) (0)
Shorter Notices (1956) (0)
Book Review:The Dynamics of Morals: A Sociopsychological Theory of Ethics. Radhakamal Mukerjee (1952) (0)
Book Review:The Revolution in Philosophy. A. J. Ayer, W. C. Kneale, G. A. Paul, D. F. Pears, P. F. Strawson, G. J. Warnock, R. A. Wollheim (1957) (0)
The Idea of Usury. Benjamin N. Nelson (1950) (0)
Shorter Notices (1949) (0)
MORAL RATIONALITY (2013) (0)
MORAL RATIONALITY (2013) (0)

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Reason and Morality