Richard E. Flathman

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Richard E. Flathman

Political Science

#1435

World Rank

#1720

Historical Rank

#727

USA Rank

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Political Science

Richard E. Flathman's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Masters Political Science University of Chicago
Bachelors Political Science University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Richard E. Flathman was the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for having pioneered, with Brian Barry, David Braybrooke, Felix Oppenheim, and Abraham Kaplan, the application of analytic philosophy to political science. He was a leading advocate of liberalism and a champion of individuality. He defended a conception of social freedom according to which it is "negative, situated, and elemental."

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Richard E. Flathman's Published Works

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The public interest : an essay concerning the normative discourse of politics (1967) (92)
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument (2006) (65)
Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics (1993) (63)
The Practice of Political Authority: Authority and the Authoritative (1980) (61)
The Practice of Rights (1977) (51)
Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (1992) (37)
The philosophy and politics of freedom (1992) (37)
The Practice of Political Authority. (1983) (35)
Pluralism and Liberal Democracy (2005) (35)
Liberal Versus Civic, Republican, Democratic, and other Vocational Educations (1996) (22)
Toward a liberalism (1989) (21)
Reflections of a Would-Be Anarchist: Ideals and Institutions of Liberalism (1998) (18)
Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (2003) (17)
Leviathan : authoritative text, backgrounds, interpretations (1997) (10)
“It All Depends... on How One Understands Liberalism” (1998) (10)
Power, Authority, and Rights in the Practice of Medicine (1982) (10)
Concepts in social & political philosophy (1973) (7)
In and out of the ethical: The realist liberalism of Bernard Williams (2010) (7)
The public interest (1966) (5)
III. Some Familiar but False Dichotomies Concerning “INTERESTS” a Comment on Benditt and Oppenheim (1975) (4)
Freedom and Its Conditions (2003) (4)
Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar. Edited by Bernard Yack. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 292p. $42.00 cloth, $16.95 paper (1996) (4)
The Self Against and for Itself: Montaigne and Sextus Empiricus on Freedom, Discipline and Resistance (2000) (3)
Wittgenstein and the social sciences: critical reflections concerning Peter Winch’s interpretations and appropriations of Wittgenstein’s thought (2000) (3)
6 Perfectionism Without Perfection: Cavell, Montaigne, and the Conditions of Morals and Politics (2006) (2)
The Rights of Volunteers (1981) (2)
George Armstrong Kelly (1988) (2)
The bases, limits, and values of pluralism: An engagement with William James. (2005) (2)
Egalitarian Blood and Skeptical Turnips (1983) (2)
II. Rights, Needs, and Liberalism. A Comment on Bay (1980) (2)
Sustaining Affirmation: The Strength of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. Stephen K. White (2001) (1)
Oakeshott's On Human Conduct (2012) (1)
Hobbes: Premier Theorist of Authority (1997) (1)
Culture, Morality and Rights: Or, Should Alasdair Maclntyre’s Philosophical Driving License Be Suspended? (1984) (1)
The Shotgun Behind the Door: Liberalism and the Problem of Political Obligation. By Abbott Philip. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1976. Pp. xv + 206. $8.00.) (1978) (1)
A Matter of Principle. By Dworkin Ronald. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. 425. $25.00.) (1986) (1)
Moderating Rights (1984) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
L'Obligation Politique. By Polin Raymond. (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971. Pp. 159.) (1973) (0)
The Imagined and Wished for Imperium of Reason and Science (1996) (0)
Response to Critics (2006) (0)
Obligation, Ideals, and Ability (2017) (0)
Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy: A Reexamination of the Foundations of Social Science . By John W. Danford. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 265, $17.00.) (1980) (0)
British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500–1800: Here and Now, There and Then, Always and Everywhere: Reflections Concerning Political Theory and the Study/Writing of Political Thought (2006) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
A Yet Briefer Reply to Professor Macedo (1998) (0)
Nomos VII: Rational Decision. Edited by Carl J. Friedrich. (New York: Atherton Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 228. $6.50). (1965) (0)
Rogers M. Smith , Liberalism and American Constitutional Law . Reviewed by (1987) (0)
Equality and Generalization, a Formal Analysis (2017) (0)
Books in Review (1996) (0)
Absolutism, individuality and politics: Hobbes and a little beyond (1989) (0)
James Mill and the Art of Revolution. By Hamburger Joseph. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. Pp. xii, 289, $6.50.) (1964) (0)
International Political Theory after Hobbes (2011) (0)
Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (1966) (0)
From Contract to Community: Political Theory at the Crossroads. Edited by Dallmayr Fred R.. (New York: Marcel Dreker, 1978. Pp. xii + 172. $19.50.) (1979) (0)
Political Obligation (2019) (0)
Book Review: The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (2006) (0)
Leslie Green , The Authority of the State . Reviewed by (1989) (0)
Truth, Truthfulness and Politics: Brief Comments Concerning Elkins, Norris and Zerilli (2007) (0)
Convention, Contractarianism, and Freedom (1987) (0)
Contributors (1983) (0)
Books in Review (1990) (0)

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