Hall, Richard

Richard Hall teaches in the Department of Government and History, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American Culture and Society. Essays on America’s Spiritual Founding Father

2008 0-7734-5060-2
This volume contains select papers delivered in October of 2003 at the First churches of Northampton, Massachusetts, in celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Jonathan Edwards. The Northampton Tercentenary of 2003 is in continuity with the conference held in the same building in June of 1900 to mark the sesquicentenary of Edwards’ dismissal from the church, and the anticipated conference to be held in the same place to honor the quadricentenary of his birth in 2103.

How Should War Reparations Be Paid to Ukraine? The Proposal of Josiah Royce

2024 1-4955-1186-3
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for the international community to make Russia pay reparations to Ukraine for the tremendous damage it has inflicted there." ...This book offers an evaluation of this request based on Josiah Royce's Peace Proposal.

Jonathan Edwards and Arthur Schopenhauer on The Freedom of The Will: Two Philosophical Pessimists

2023 1-4955-1098-0
"Who would have thought that Jonathan Edwards and Arthur Schopenhauer, the Puritan preacher and the German Gelehrter, had anything in common? As it turns out, a lot. It was William H. Squires who saw what they have in common is the metaphysical and psychological theory of voluntarism. ...I became interested in tracing the theme of the will throughout their works and found that what links them beyond their determinism is their common identification of the will as the primary factor in human psychology and even nature as the foundation of their ethics and aesthetics, that is, their psychological and metaphysical voluntarism as their idealism. The result of that undertaking is this book in which my early interests in Edwards and Schopenhauer converge." -from the author's "Preface"

Jonathan Edwards on the Environment. The Relevance of the Thought of Jonathan Edwards to Our Current Environmental and Ecological Concerns

2016 1-4955-0500-6
This is the first attempt to correlate the development of Jonathan Edwards’ thinking with the psychological stages and social conflicts in his life, but, the primary purpose of the author is to provide a comprehensive statement about Edwards theology and to show how it influenced the later politics of American Society.

Josiah Royce's Proposal How to Establish World Peace Using Business Rather Than International Law. An Alternative to Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace

2017 1-4955-0553-7
The focus of this monograph is Josiah Royce's imaginative proposal to preserve world peace by the virtue of international insurance. It offers possible reasons for his choice of insurance as an instrument of peace. Using World War One as a catalyst, Josiah Royce attempted to combine the art of statistics with the precepts of insurance to craft a scheme for international peace.

Neglected Northampton Texts of Jonathan Edwards Edwards on Society and Politics

1990 0-88946-593-2
Explicates Edward's four neglected texts from the 1740s in order to reveal his philosophical sociology and socio-political philosophy.

White Calvinists Fighting Against Black Slavery Before the Ratification of the American Constitution. A Collection of Eighteenth- Century Documents

2016 1-4955-0499-9
Professor Richard Hall has gathered the 18th-century Edwardsean anti-slavery writings that are presented in this book. Note that John Brown, a white man who sacrificed his life to free black slaves, had read these very documents and they influenced his decision to do what he did.