Alan Gewirth (gewirth)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Gewirth, Alan. 1941a. “The Cartesian Circle.” The Philosophical Review 50(4): 368–395.
Gewirth, Alan. 1941b. “Experience and the Non-Mathematical in the Cartesian Method.” Journal of the History of Ideas 2(2): 183–210. Reprinted in Moyal (1991, 433–454).
Gewirth, Alan. 1943. “Clearness and Distinctness in Descartes.” Philosophy 18(69): 17–36. Reprinted in Doney (1967, 250–277), Moyal (1991, 185–203) and in Cottingham (1998, 79–100).
Gewirth, Alan. 1962. “Political Justice.” in Social Justice, edited by Richard B. Brandt, pp. 119–170. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Gewirth, Alan. 1970a. “The Cartesian Circle Reconsidered.” The Journal of Philosophy 67: 668–685.
Gewirth, Alan. 1970b. “Obligation: Political, Legal, Moral.” in Political and Legal Obligation, edited by James Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, pp. 55–88. Nomos, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy n. 12. New York: Atherton Press.
Gewirth, Alan. 1971. “Descartes: Two Disputed Questions.” The Journal of Philosophy 68: 288–296.
Gewirth, Alan. 1972. Moral Rationality. University of Kansas: Department of Philosophy. The Lindley Lecture for 1972.
Gewirth, Alan. 1978. “The Golden Rule Rationalized.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 3: Studies in Ethical Theory, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 133–147. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Gewirth, Alan. 1981a. “Are there Any Absolute Rights?” The Philosophical Quarterly 31: 1–16. Reprinted in Waldron (1984, 91–109).
Gewirth, Alan. 1981b. “The Basis and Content of Human Rights.” in Human Rights, edited by James Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, pp. 119–147. Nomos, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy n. 23. New York: New York University Press.
Gewirth, Alan. 1982. “Can Utilitarianism Justify any Moral Rights?” in Ethics, Economics, and the Law, edited by James Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, pp. 158–193. Nomos, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy n. 24. New York: New York University Press.
Gewirth, Alan. 1984. “Rights and Virtues.” Analyse & Kritik 6(1): 28–42.
Gewirth, Alan. 1985. “A Brief Rejoinder [to MacIntyre (1985)].” Analyse & Kritik 7(2): 249–250.
Gewirth, Alan. 1986. “Economic Rights.” Philosophical Topics 14(2): 169–194.
Gewirth, Alan. 1993. “The Egoist’s Objection [Reply to Schmitt (1992)].” The Journal of Value Inquiry 27(1): 101–103.
Gewirth, Alan. 1998. “The Community of Rights.” in Applied Ethics in a Troubled World, edited by Edgar Morscher, Otto Neumaier, and Peter M. Simons, pp. 225–236. Philosophical Studies Series n. 73. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Gewirth, Alan. 2001. “The Rational Justification of Morality Revisited.” in Social and Political Philosophy. Contemporary Perspectives, edited by James P. Sterba, pp. 38–41. London: Routledge.

Further References

Cottingham, John G., ed. 1998. Descartes. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Doney, Willis, ed. 1967. Descartes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co.
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1985. “Rights, Practices and Marxism: Reply to Six Critics.” Analyse & Kritik 7(2): 234–248.
Moyal, Georges J. D., ed. 1991. René Descartes. Critical Assessments. Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, I. London: Routledge.
Schmitt, Joseph W. E. 1992. “Gewirth and the Egoist: A New Objection to the Principle of Generic Consistency.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 26(1): 105–116.
Waldron, Jeremy, ed. 1984. Theories of Rights. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.