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Philip Pettit has certainly made notable contributions in several areas of political philosophy -- his most recent book The State applies his "counterfactual genealogy" technique in a revision of the sovereignty theories of Bodin, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. But Philosophy Now readers sear...

No one has succeeded in creating a system of values in which arbitrariness, self-indulgence, egotism, cruelty, injustice, force, deliberate lying, and arrogant, sneering superiority were virtues... So writes Peter Kreeft. Balderdash. Considering the "virtue" of cruelty alone, Kreeft appar...