Douglas J. Den Uyl

Liberty Fund

Douglas J. Den Uyl is the vice president of educational programs at Liberty Fund. Den Uyl earned his B.A. from Kalamazoo College, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his PH.D. from Marquette University. Den Uyl’s areas of scholarly interest include the history of ideas, moral and political theory, and has published essays or books on Spinoza, Smith, Shaftesbury, Mandeville and others. He taught Philosophy and was Department Chair and Full Professor at Bellarmine Univeristy before coming to Liberty Fund. Dr. Den Uyl has contributed articles to journals such as Journal of the History of Philosophy, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Journal of Applied Philosophy. Den Uyl is the author of The Virtue of Prudence (1991), The Fountainhead: An American Novel (1999), and God, Man, & Well-Being: Spinoza’s Modern Humanism (2008). Den Uyl coauthored (with Douglas B. Rasmussen) several books: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991), Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity (1997), Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005), and co-edited (with Rasmussen) The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand (1984).

• Paradigm Lock: Part 1
• Paradigm Lock: Part 2
• Smith Snark on Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury)