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Jed W. Atkins

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies

Selected Publications


John Rawls’s Theology of Liberal Toleration

Journal Article American Political Thought · December 1, 2024 Scholarship has shown that John Rawls’s theological education at Princeton shaped his later theory of justice but has overlooked a similar impact on his account of toleration, which was also derived from the original position in ATheory of Justice. Drawing ... Full text Cite

The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy

Book · December 16, 2021 The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as ... ... Cite

Espoir et empire dans le songe de Scipion

Journal Article Cahiers philosophiques · January 30, 2020 Le Songe de Scipion est l’occasion pour Cicéron de revenir sur cette notion généralement dévalorisée politiquement qu’est l’espoir, par le biais de la longue narration d’un rêve, dans lequel Scipion a eu la vision, non seulement de sa destinée futu ... Full text Cite

Tertullian on 'The Freedom of Religion'

Journal Article Polis (United Kingdom) · January 1, 2020 Tertullian first coined the phrase 'the freedom of religion'. This article considers what this entails. I argue that Tertullian's discussion of religious liberty derives its theoretical significance from his creative repurposing of the Roman idea of libert ... Full text Cite

"How Christianity Changed Singleness"

Other First Things · January 2020 Link to item Cite

Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective.

Journal Article Perspectives in biology and medicine · January 2019 In his work on medical ethics, Lauris Kaldjian identifies conscience with integrity. However, there are competing notions of integrity that may guide the conscience. This paper addresses debates over conscientious refusals by considering Cicero's account o ... Full text Cite

Non-domination and the libera res publica in Cicero's Republicanism

Journal Article History of European Ideas · August 18, 2018 This paper assesses to what extent the neo-Republican accounts of Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit adequately capture the nature of political liberty at Rome by focusing on Cicero's analysis of the libera res publica. Cicero's analysis in De Republica sug ... Full text Cite

ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Book · January 1, 2018 Featured Publication What can the Romans teach us about politics? This thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, polit ... Full text Cite

Zeno's Republic, plato's Laws, and the early development of stoic natural law theory

Journal Article Polis (United Kingdom) · May 5, 2015 Recent scholarship on Stoic political thought has sought to explain the relationship between Zeno's Republic and the concept of a natural law regulating a cosmic city of gods and human beings that is attributed to later Stoics. This paper provides a reasse ... Full text Cite

Euripides's orestes and the concept of conscience in Greek philosophy

Journal Article Journal of the History of Ideas · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

A revolutionary doctrine? Cicero's natural right teaching in Mably and Burke

Journal Article Classical Receptions Journal · January 1, 2014 Why and how did (and do) political thinkers with radically different political agendas invest in Cicero's conservative political philosophy? What is it about Cicero's political thought that inspires radicals and conservatives alike? This essay explores the ... Full text Cite

John Rawls’s Theology of Liberal Toleration

Journal Article American Political Thought · December 1, 2024 Scholarship has shown that John Rawls’s theological education at Princeton shaped his later theory of justice but has overlooked a similar impact on his account of toleration, which was also derived from the original position in ATheory of Justice. Drawing ... Full text Cite

The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy

Book · December 16, 2021 The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as ... ... Cite

Espoir et empire dans le songe de Scipion

Journal Article Cahiers philosophiques · January 30, 2020 Le Songe de Scipion est l’occasion pour Cicéron de revenir sur cette notion généralement dévalorisée politiquement qu’est l’espoir, par le biais de la longue narration d’un rêve, dans lequel Scipion a eu la vision, non seulement de sa destinée futu ... Full text Cite

Tertullian on 'The Freedom of Religion'

Journal Article Polis (United Kingdom) · January 1, 2020 Tertullian first coined the phrase 'the freedom of religion'. This article considers what this entails. I argue that Tertullian's discussion of religious liberty derives its theoretical significance from his creative repurposing of the Roman idea of libert ... Full text Cite

"How Christianity Changed Singleness"

Other First Things · January 2020 Link to item Cite

Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective.

Journal Article Perspectives in biology and medicine · January 2019 In his work on medical ethics, Lauris Kaldjian identifies conscience with integrity. However, there are competing notions of integrity that may guide the conscience. This paper addresses debates over conscientious refusals by considering Cicero's account o ... Full text Cite

Non-domination and the libera res publica in Cicero's Republicanism

Journal Article History of European Ideas · August 18, 2018 This paper assesses to what extent the neo-Republican accounts of Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit adequately capture the nature of political liberty at Rome by focusing on Cicero's analysis of the libera res publica. Cicero's analysis in De Republica sug ... Full text Cite

ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Book · January 1, 2018 Featured Publication What can the Romans teach us about politics? This thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, polit ... Full text Cite

Zeno's Republic, plato's Laws, and the early development of stoic natural law theory

Journal Article Polis (United Kingdom) · May 5, 2015 Recent scholarship on Stoic political thought has sought to explain the relationship between Zeno's Republic and the concept of a natural law regulating a cosmic city of gods and human beings that is attributed to later Stoics. This paper provides a reasse ... Full text Cite

Euripides's orestes and the concept of conscience in Greek philosophy

Journal Article Journal of the History of Ideas · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

A revolutionary doctrine? Cicero's natural right teaching in Mably and Burke

Journal Article Classical Receptions Journal · January 1, 2014 Why and how did (and do) political thinkers with radically different political agendas invest in Cicero's conservative political philosophy? What is it about Cicero's political thought that inspires radicals and conservatives alike? This essay explores the ... Full text Cite

Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws

Book · October 17, 2013 Featured Publication <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isb n/item7282780/Cicero%20on%20Politics%20and%20th e%20Limits%20of%20Reason/? site_locale=en_US/">See Publisher’s Description Here</a> ... Cite

Greek and Roman Political Philosophy

Internet Publication · 2012 Cite

L'argument du De Re Publica et le Songe de Scipion

Journal Article Etudes Philosophiques · 2011 Cite

The officia of St. Ambrose's de officiis

Journal Article Journal of Early Christian Studies · January 1, 2011 A reader of Ambrose's De officiis who is well acquainted with Cicero's homonymous work will be immediately impressed by the similarities in organization and the structure of argument. However, he or she will also notice that the bishop's ethic contains an ... Full text Cite

A Young Researcher Tackles the De Republica

Other Gazette Tulliana · 2010 In this interview with Philippe Rousselot, the President of the Societe internationale des amis de Ciceron, I discuss my research on Cicero and Roman philosophy. Translated into French, Spanish, and Italian. ... Cite