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Lucas Swaine
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 22
Citations - 266
Lucas Swaine is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liberalism & Politics. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 21 publications receiving 259 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucas Swaine include Brown University.
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The false right to autonomy in education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the core conception of personal autonomy authorizes individuals to employ their imaginations in troubling and unhealthy ways that clash with sound ideals of moral character, and that young citizens appear to have no right to be educated, in public schools, for the purpose of becoming autonomous individuals of the kind he describes and criticizes in this account.
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Moral Character for Political Leaders: A Normative Account
TL;DR: In this article, the moral and political implications of strong moral character for political action are analyzed, and the case is supported by empirical findings on character dispositions and the political viability of the account's normative prescriptions.
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Principled Separation: Liberal Governance and Religious Free Exercise
TL;DR: The First Amendment has been the subject of much interpretation and reinterpretation in recent history, and the Supreme Court's historically separationist approach has come under fire as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this essay attempt to articulate and defend three principles which support the separationist position.
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The origins of autonomy
TL;DR: The idea of autonomy was originally restricted to the discourse of inter-state relations, and it is commonly believed that autonomy 'belongs' to that vocabulary in a historical sense.
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A Paradox Reconsidered: written lessons from Plato's Phaedrus
TL;DR: A Paradox Reconsidered: written lessons from Plato's Phaedrus as discussed by the authors, a paradox discussed in the context of educational philosophy and theory, is discussed in Section 3.1.