Theodore Lai

Georgetown University, Government, Graduate Student

Yale-NUS College, Philosophy and Politics, Alumnus

University of Chicago, Political Science/Philosophy, Alumnus

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Supervisors: Patchen Markell, Cornell University, Benjamin Schupmann, Yale-NUS College, and Joshua Mitchell/Mark Fisher, Georgetown University

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Erasmus University Rotterdam

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The University of Texas at Austin

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Ohio State University

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The University of New South Wales

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Conference Presentations by Theodore Lai

Taking Responsibility for Injustice: Thinking and the Galvanizing of Political Action

2018 Graduate Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University / 3rd Annual Great Lakes Philosophy Conference (2019), Siena Heights University

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Thoughtlessness and Loneliness in Hannah Arendt’s Political Theory

76th Mid-West Political Science Association Conference, Chicago

Virtu in the Urgency of Changing Times: A Machiavellian Approach to Emergencies

4th Biennial Ideas in Politics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

Natality as the Right to have Rights: Hannah Arendt and Jacques Ranciere

18th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, University of Pavia (2020) / 7th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory, University of Saint Andrews (2019)

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Trust, Empathy and Moral Judgment: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ontology of Moral Life

To What End? Narrative, Institutions, and Practices. University of Notre Dame, 2019

Taking More by Returning Less: Productivity and Exploitation in Capitalism

2018 International Social Theory Consortium, Loyola University Chicago

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Book Reviews by Theodore Lai

The Troubling Modesty of Human Rights (Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World)

Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2019

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Thesis Chapters by Theodore Lai

Taking Responsibility for Injustice: Thinking and the Galvanizing of Political Action

Excerpt from MA in Political Philosophy Thesis, 2018

Advisor: Prof. Patchen Markell, University of Chicago

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Papers by Theodore Lai

The Troubling Modesty of Human Rights

Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2020

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Taking Responsibility for Injustice: Thinking and the Galvanizing of Political Action

2018 Graduate Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University / 3rd Annual Great Lakes Philosophy Conference (2019), Siena Heights University

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Thoughtlessness and Loneliness in Hannah Arendt’s Political Theory

76th Mid-West Political Science Association Conference, Chicago

Virtu in the Urgency of Changing Times: A Machiavellian Approach to Emergencies

4th Biennial Ideas in Politics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

Natality as the Right to have Rights: Hannah Arendt and Jacques Ranciere

18th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, University of Pavia (2020) / 7th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory, University of Saint Andrews (2019)

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Trust, Empathy and Moral Judgment: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Ontology of Moral Life

To What End? Narrative, Institutions, and Practices. University of Notre Dame, 2019

Taking More by Returning Less: Productivity and Exploitation in Capitalism

2018 International Social Theory Consortium, Loyola University Chicago

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The Troubling Modesty of Human Rights (Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World)

Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2019

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Taking Responsibility for Injustice: Thinking and the Galvanizing of Political Action

Excerpt from MA in Political Philosophy Thesis, 2018

Advisor: Prof. Patchen Markell, University of Chicago