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James Bernard Murphy
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 36
Citations - 447
James Bernard Murphy is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Positive law & Philosophy of law. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 36 publications receiving 415 citations.
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The Moral Economy of Labor: Aristotelian Themes in Economic Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, a new Aristotelian theory of productive labor is proposed to restore the unity of conception and execution in the design of jobs, which is compatible with our economic interests in efficient production and is required by our moral interests in human flourishing.
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Nature, Custom, and Reason as the Explanatory and Practical Principles of Aristotelian Political Science
TL;DR: Aristotle as mentioned in this paper argued that nature, custom, and reason form a hierarchy such that custom presupposes nature, but cannot be reduced to it, while reason presupposes custom, but not to custom.
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Against civic schooling
TL;DR: This paper argued that the attempt to impose these partisan conceptions of civic virtue on America's students violates the civic trust that underpins vibrant public schools, and that such education aimed at civic virtue is at best ineffective; worse, it is often subversive of the moral purpose of schooling.
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The Philosophy of Positive Law: Foundations of Jurisprudence
TL;DR: In this article, a book-length study of positive law is presented, which rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a fundamental continuity among four great legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes and John Austin.