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John Kilcullen

Australian politics

A First Reading Of The Australian Constitution 
Democracy in Australia
Liberal Democracy 
An Australian Bill of Rights? 
A comparison of Australian, British, Canadian and US political systems 
Improving our political system
Submissions to Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters
Factionalism

Palestine/Israel Conflict


Palestine: The Next Few Months are Critical 7 July 2014
Palestine Yet Again  30 Jan 2013
The Israel/Palestine Conflict: How did it begin? Will it ever end?  2011
Palestine: Another Approach 20 Jan 2010. Longer version.
Two States Now: The Case for Unilateral U.S. Recognition of Palestine, 11 May 2009.

Political Philosophy

The Free Enterprise Philosophy: For and Against 
Faith, Values and Politics (on Kevin Rudd's essay in The Monthly)
Religion and Politics 
Separation of Church and State  
Pierre Bayle on the Rights of Conscience
Translation: Pierre Bayle, A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23, "Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full" (ed. Kilcullen and Kukathas)

Epistemology, Religion, and Ethics

Philosophy and Religion 
The Medieval Concept of Heresy
The Ethics of Belief and Inquiry
Reciprocity Arguments for Toleration
Sincerity and Being Right
Utilitarianism and Virtue (Ethics, 93 (1983))
Mill on Duty and Liberty (Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 59 (1981))

William of Ockham as political thinker

Introduction to Ockham's Dialogus (1 Dial. 1-5).
Ockham: A short discourse on the tyrannical government usurped by some who are called Highest Pontiffs (McGrade and Kilcullen),
Ockham: A Letter to the Friars Minor and other Writings (McGrade and Kilcullen)
Ockham: The Work of Ninety Days (Kilcullen and Scott) (Corrigenda, from Jon Robinson )
For electronic searching: Ockham Translations
William Of Ockham, Dialogus, edition and translation
Ockham and the Dialogus
Ockham's Political Writings
Ockham and Infallibility (from The Journal of Religious History, 16 (1991))
Ockham and Early Christianity (paper read to Society for the Study of Early Christianity)
Introduction to Ockham, The Work of Ninety Days
Natural Law and Will in Ockham (Paper read to The Australasian Society for the History of Philosophy)

Medieval and early modern intellectual history

Medieval Political Philosophy (Article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Medieval Political Theory (for Handbook of Political Theory, ed. Gaus and Kukathas (Sage Publications 2004))
Medieval and modern concepts of rights: how do they differ? (Paper for the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Medieval Theories of Natural Law | Medieval Theories of Natural Rights (longer versions of articles published in Springer Encyclopedia)
Translations of documents relating to the Franciscan idea of poverty
The Origin of Property: Ockham, Grotius, Pufendorf, and some others (Appendix to Ockham, The Work of Ninety Days)
Philosophy, religion and political thought in medieval islam
John Buridan, Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics book X, Latin text | John Wyclif, De civili dominio, chapters 1-10, Latin text
(Buridan and Wyclif texts translated in The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, McGrade, Kilcullen, Kempshall)
Antoine Arnauld on Philosophic Sin (from Sincerity and Truth: Essays on Arnauld, Bayle and Toleration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988))
Arnauld on Freedom and Necessity (from Sincerity and Truth)
Locke on Political Obligation ( The Review of Politics, 45 (1983), pp.323-344.)

Teaching materials on the history of political thought

Thucydides | Thucydides (continued)
Plato | Plato (continued) | Plato Gorgias | Plato Statesman | Plato Phaedrus
Aristotle's Politics | Aristotle's Ethics
Augustine, The City of God
Thomas Aquinas | Marsilius of Padua | William of Ockham
Thomas Hobbes | John Locke | David Hume
Adam Smith: Reading Guides, The Theory of Moral Sentiments | Wealth of Nations| Lectures: Moral Sentiments | The Wealth of Nations
J.S. Mill: Representative Government | Utilitarianism | Logic | Sociology
Marx: Capitalism | Reading Guide to Capital | Historical Materialism
The Marginalist Theory
Max Weber: BureaucracyCapitalism | Reading Guide to Weber
Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy | Reading guide to Schumpeter  | Michels, Political Parties
Charles Darwin on the Moral Faculties | Huxley: On the Pigeon-fancier's Polity | Reading Guide to Darwin, Huxley, Dawkins 
John Rawls: The Original Position | Decisions in the Original PositionLiberty | Reading Guide to Rawls, Theory of Justice 

Some reflections

Other Teaching Materials On Political Thought

Teaching materials on medieval philosophy

Medieval Philosophy: An Introduction
Greek Philosophical Background | Philosophy from Aristotle to Augustine | Christianty and Greek Philosophy
Reading Guide to V.J. Bourke, The Essential Augustine
Reading Guide to Boethius, Consolation
Anselm's Monologion
Anselm's Proslogion and Cur deus homo
Reading guide to Anselm's De concordia [on God's foreknowledge and predestination, and human freedom]
Al Ghazali and Averroes 
Peter Abelard 
Thomas Aquinas on God
Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism: Duns Scotus on Universals | Ockham on Universals | Ockham on Relations
Scotus and Ockham  on Free Will
Medieval elements in Descartes | Medieval elements in Berkeley, Locke and Hume

Other Teaching Materials On Medieval Philosophy

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