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Michaelmas Term
- Monday 8 October
Ian Hunter (University of Queensland)
'Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry'
Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)
Introduction
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- Monday 15 October
Christian Maurer, (Université de Fribourg)
'Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of
the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for
Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love'
Comment: John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
Introduction
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- Monday 22 October
Raymond Geuss (University of Cambridge)
'Authority: Some Fables'
Introduction
- Monday 29 October
Sophie Nicholls (University of Oxford)
'The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)'
Comment: Harro Hopfl (University of Essex)
Introduction
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- Monday 5 November
Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford)
'Hobbes and Sexual Desire'
Introduction
- Monday 12 November
Nick Hardy (University of Cambridge)
'Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century'
Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge)
Introduction
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- Monday 19 November
Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino)
'The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy'
Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Introduction
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- November 26 November
Lea Ypi (LSE)
'On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history'
Comment: Istvan Hont (University of Cambridge)
Introduction
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Lent Term
- 21 January
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
'Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World'
Introduction
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- 28 January
Karen Collis (University of Oxford).
'The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and
the Defence of Humane Learning''
Comment: Richard Serjeantson
(Trinity College, Cambridge)
Introduction
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- 4 February
Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
'The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence'
Introduction
- 11 February
Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science)
'Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of
"Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge," 1860-1895'
Comment: John Dunn
(King's College, Cambridge)
Introduction
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- 18 February
Lauren Benton (New York University)
'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire'
Comment: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)
Introduction
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- 25 February
Niall O'Flaherty (King's College, London)
'Malthus and "the Doctrine
of Utility"'
Comment: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)
Introduction
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- 4 March
Jose Harris (University of Oxford)
'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'
Introduction
Joint session with the Modern British History Seminar
Easter Term
- 29 April
Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews)
'Realism tamed or liberalism betrayed? The dystopic liberal imagination in political thought'
Introduction
- 6 May
Sam James (Jesus College, Cambridge)
J. G. A. Pocock and the idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the history of political thought'
Comment: Professor Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London)
Introduction
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- 13 May
Mogens Herman Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
'Aspects of indirect democracy in ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics'
- 20 May
Louis Caron
'Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology'
Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Introduction
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