William Sweet
Canadian political philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Sweet is a Canadian philosopher, and a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association and of the Canadian Theological Society. Biography Sweet was born in St. Albert near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and studied political science, theology, and philosophy in Canada, South Africa, France, and Germany. He completed a DEA in political science at the Sorbonne at the Université de Paris , a PhD in philosophy at the University of Ottawa, a DTh in systematic theology at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, and a D.Ph. at the Université Saint-Paul. He also studied at Carleton University, the University of Manitoba, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Centre Sèvres . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2014, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017. In November 2021, he was elected a permanent member of the preeminent academy of philosophy in the world, the
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- Virtue ethics as an alternative to deontological and consequential reasoning in the harm reduction debate. (2008) (56)
- A use of history. (1968) (28)
- Idealism and Rights: The Social Ontology of Human Rights in the Political Thought of Bernard Bosanquet (1996) (19)
- The philosophical theory of the state and related essays (2001) (16)
- Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2003) (14)
- Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of View? (1997) (11)
- The dialogue of cultural traditions : a global perspective (2008) (9)
- Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy (2006) (7)
- The Philosophy of History: A Re-examination (2004) (7)
- Biotechnologies and Human Dignity (2011) (6)
- Hume's Reception in Early America (2002) (5)
- Bernard Bosanquet and the legacy of British idealism (2005) (5)
- Human Rights and Cultural Diversity (1998) (4)
- Bernard Bosanquet and the Development of Rousseau's Idea of the General Will (1991) (4)
- Was Bosanquet a Hegelian? (1995) (4)
- Approaches to metaphysics (2004) (4)
- Bosanquet and British Political Thought (1999) (4)
- Religious belief, meaning and argument (2007) (3)
- Is later British idealist political theory fundamentally conservative? 1 (1996) (3)
- Discourse and the possibility of religious truth (1998) (3)
- Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community (2011) (3)
- Paley, Whately, and ‘Enlightenment evidentialism’ (1999) (3)
- The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists (2017) (3)
- Faith, Belief and Religious Truth: A Rejoinder to Hart (1994) (2)
- Bosanquet and Bradley: some recent discussions (2000) (2)
- British Idealist Aesthetics: Origins and Themes (2001) (2)
- Anti-foundationalism, Hendrik Hart and the Nature and Function of Religious Belief (1993) (2)
- Empiricism, fideism and the nature of religious belief (1992) (2)
- British Idealism and the Political Philosophy of T. H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott (2005) (2)
- George Francis Mclean and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy: Philosophy in the Service of Humanity (2005) (2)
- Individual Rights, Communitarianism, and British Idealism (1993) (2)
- The Nuclear Age: Atomic Energy, Proliferation, and the Arms Race, second edition, William Sweet. 1988. Congressional Quarterly, Washington, DC. 325 pages. Index. ISBN: 0-87187-466 OEP. $14.95 (1990) (2)
- Human fallout from the atomic age (1980) (2)
- Law and Liberty in J. S. Mill and Bernard Bosanquet (1995) (2)
- 1. ‘The Restoration of a Citizen Mind’: Bernard Bosanquet and the Charity Organisation Society (2005) (2)
- Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights (2011) (2)
- 5. Bosanquet, Aesthetics, and Education: Warding off Stupidity with Art (2005) (1)
- Liberalism, Bosanquet, and the Theory of the State (1995) (1)
- The Autograph Hand of John Lydgate and a Manuscript from Bury St. Edmunds Abbey (2012) (1)
- Biographical encyclopedia of British idealism (2010) (1)
- God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique (1999) (1)
- Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism (2002) (1)
- Is the “Intelligibility of Religious Language” Debate Dead? (2012) (1)
- Schellenberg's Newman Lecture on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: Responses and Reply (2010) (1)
- Bosanquet, Culture, and the Influence of Idealist Logic (2000) (1)
- Migrating texts & traditions (2012) (1)
- Migrating Texts and Traditions (2012) (1)
- Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously (2004) (1)
- The relevance of a Catholic philosophy of education (2017) (1)
- Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community (2001) (1)
- Bridging Divides, Building Relations, and the Proposal for Intercultural Theology (2021) (1)
- Lydgate Manuscripts and Prints in Late Medieval Scotland (2012) (1)
- Hospitality, Ethics, and Multiculturalism (2010) (1)
- Jacques Maritain and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2020) (1)
- R.F.A. Hoernlé and Idealist Liberalism in South Africa (2010) (1)
- The US-India safeguards dispute (1978) (1)
- Lydgate’s Retraction and ‘his resorte to his religyoun’ (2011) (1)
- Politics, ethics and challenges to democracy in 'new independent states' (2005) (1)
- Political Obligation in a Liberal State (1992) (1)
- Essays on aspects of the social problem and essays on social policy (1999) (1)
- Philosophy of Religion Today (2006) (1)
- Evidentialism, Fideism, and John Henry Newman (2018) (0)
- THE BOHR LETTERS: No more uncertainty (2002) (0)
- A. R. Lord and Later Idealist Political Philosophy (2005) (0)
- Introduction: Rediscovering Bosanquet (2005) (0)
- William James, the Transcendent, and the ''Right to Believe'' (2007) (0)
- 2. The Basis of It All: Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvanian (2006) (0)
- The age of hard-to-get oil [The Data] (2012) (0)
- Thomas Dean, ed., "Religious Pluralism and Truth: Essays on Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion." Reviewed by (1996) (0)
- Responses to B. Jowett, T.H. Green, E. Caird and W. Wallace (2004) (0)
- Mass transit revival. [Review] (1979) (0)
- Hospitality and Ethics (2012) (0)
- Larmer on Miracles, Models, and the Laws of Nature (2012) (0)
- The Metaphysical Self and the Moral Self in Bernard Bosanquet (2016) (0)
- British Idealist Philosophy of Religion (2014) (0)
- Neutron bomb and European defense (1980) (0)
- American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 396 (2012) (0)
- Kelly James Clark, ed. , Our Knowledge of God: Essays on Natural and Philosophical Theology . Reviewed by (1995) (0)
- Catholic Education and Philosophy of Education in Canada (2019) (0)
- Aesthetics, Art, and Art History (2003) (0)
- Books Received (2002) (0)
- Bernard Bosanquet: Selected Essays (1999) (0)
- 2. Social Holism and Communal Individualism: Bosanquet and Durkheim (2005) (0)
- ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM AND THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF (2012) (0)
- Ecological Citizenship and Green Burial in China (2016) (0)
- Responses to F.H. Bradley, A.S. Pringle-Pattison and J.M.E. Mctaggart (2004) (0)
- 8. Bosanquet and Religion (2005) (0)
- The Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion (review) (2012) (0)
- Positivism, natural law theory and the internal morality of law' (1993) (0)
- The Philosophy of History Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow (2019) (0)
- NICHOLSON, Peter P., The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists : Selected StudiesNICHOLSON, Peter P., The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists : Selected Studies (1992) (0)
- DISCOURSE AND RELIGIOUS TRUTH (2012) (0)
- THE USE OF HISTORY 1 (2004) (0)
- Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris: The Effort to Contain Global Warming (2016) (0)
- Bridging Divides, Building Relations, and the Proposal for Intercultural Theology (2022) (0)
- Closing the environmental decade. [Review] (1979) (0)
- Essays on aspects of the social problem and social policy (2003) (0)
- DISTINGUISHING TO UNITE: REASON, RELIGION, AND THE LEGACY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT (2012) (0)
- LAFRANCE, Guy, éd., Éthique et droits fondamentaux - Ethics and Basic RightsLAFRANCE, Guy, éd., Éthique et droits fondamentaux - Ethics and Basic Rights (1990) (0)
- 12. Bosanquet on the Ontology of Logic and the Method of Scientific Inquiry (2005) (0)
- American catholic philosophical quarterly 474 (2003) (0)
- 4. Bosanquet, Idealism, and the Justification of Induction (2005) (0)
- Rethinking the Role of Philosophy in the Global Age (2009) (0)
- Early Responses to British Idealism (2004) (0)
- Review of Sharad Deshpande (ed.), The Philosophy of G.R. Malkani (2012) (0)
- The future of tradition (2002) (0)
- Paul Coates and Daniel D. Hutto, eds. , Current Issues in Idealism . Reviewed by (1998) (0)
- Grote, John (1813–66) (2014) (0)
- Individuals and Their Rights (1991) (0)
- Philosophy and the Love of Wisdom (2020) (0)
- Multiculturalism, Hospitality, and the Canadian Context (2012) (0)
- The foundations of rights in the political thought of Bernard Bosanquet. (1993) (0)
- CTS: Theology in Canada: The state of the discipline (2021) (0)
- Essays in aesthetics, ethics, religion and metaphysics (2003) (0)
- The Pit and the Pendulum: Domestic Politics of United States Military Policy (1980) (0)
- Essays in politics, logic and the history of philosophy : "Life and philosophy" (2003) (0)
- Human Rights, Religious Culture, and Dialogue (2016) (0)
- Claire Sponsler, The Queen’s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater (2015) (0)
- Larmer's Newman Lecture on Miracles, Divine Agency, and the Laws of Nature Responses and Replies (2012) (0)
- Controlling nuclear proliferation (1981) (0)
- Bibliography of Modern British Philosophers (2004) (0)
- Civil defense: nuclear debate's new element (1982) (0)
- 7. The Balance of Extremes: Metaphysics, Nature, and Morals in the Later Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet (2005) (0)
- U.S. delegation wins some, loses one at world radiocom conference (2000) (0)
- Bradley, F. H. (2020) (0)
- Can There Be Genuine Dialogue between Religion an Democracy (2017) (0)
- RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND COMMUNITY (2012) (0)
- Andrew Pyle, ed. , Key Philosophers in Conversation: The Cogito Interviews . Reviewed by (2001) (0)
- What is Intercultural Philosophy (2015) (0)
- Review of Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Reflections on human inquiry: science, philosophy, and common life (2020) (0)
- Religious Pluralism and Justice in the Indian Context: A Christian Perspective (1998) (0)
- Philosophical foundation, cultural and human rights in good faith (2003) (0)
- FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS HERITAGE (2005) (0)
- Third World debts (1980) (0)
- FAITH, BELIEF, AND RELIGIOUS TRUTH (2012) (0)
- Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory Paul Edward Gottfried Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990, ix + 152 pp., US$30.00 (1994) (0)
- Air pollution control: progress and prospects (1980) (0)
- Intuitionism, Religious Belief, and Proof in the Papers of the Metaphysical Society (2019) (0)
- Race, Gender, and Supremacy (2003) (0)
- Towards a Rediscovery of Classical Values : The Ethics of the British Idealists . A Passport across Cultural Borders (2009) (0)
- God, Sprigge, and Idealist Philosophy of Religion (2007) (0)
- 3. Bosanquet and the Problem of Inference (2005) (0)
- David Boucher and Andrew Vincent, A Radical Hegelian: The Political and Social Philosophy of Henry Jones , Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1993, x + 267 pp, Hb £35 (1995) (0)
- Science and Religious Belief Some Conceptual Issues 1 (2017) (0)
- Review of Sharad Deshpande (ed.), The Philosophy of G.R. Malkani (2012) (0)
- Executive order: commissioner for Colorado -- North Platte River (2007) (0)
- Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Third World (1976) (0)
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