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British journal of classical philosophy
Bimonthly Bulletin for Submissions in Classical Thought and Primary-Source Scholarship
1. The British Journal of Classical Philosophy is a semimonthly scholarly bulletin devoted to the rigorous study of ancient, medieval, and early-modern philosophical traditions through sustained, text-centered engagement with primary sources.
2. In the spirit of Mortimer J. Adler’s Great Books program, the journal privileges scholarship that returns to the foundational texts themselves—Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Church Fathers, the Scholastics, the Renaissance humanists, and the early-modern rationalists and empiricists—and draws philosophical insight from careful interpretation rather than from purely technical, analytic debate.
3. The journal provides an international forum for contributors whose work is rooted in original texts and historically informed reasoning. Submissions should exhibit deep familiarity with the language, structure, and conceptual framework of the sources under consideration.
4. Articles that rely solely on contemporary secondary literature, or that follow the style of traditional analytic philosophy without grounding in primary texts, fall outside the journal’s scope and will not be considered.
5. Areas of interest include Greek and Roman philosophy; Patristic and late-antique Christian thought; medieval Scholasticism; Renaissance humanism; and early-modern metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and natural philosophy.
6. Essays exploring the reception, development, or transformation of classical doctrines across epochs are welcome, provided they remain anchored in textual evidence and historical continuity. 7. Analytic philosophical treatments are encouraged when they arise organically from the primary materials themselves.
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British journal of classical economic and historical sciences
Bimonthly Bulletin for Classical Political Economy, Ancient Economic Thought, and Primary-Source Historical Analysis
1. The British Journal of Classical Economic and Historical Sciences is a bimonthly scholarly bulletin dedicated to the rigorous study of economic, political, and historical thought as it emerged in the ancient, medieval, and early-modern worlds.
2. Guided by the intellectual ethos of Mortimer J. Adler’s Great Books paradigm, the journal insists that all submissions demonstrate sustained engagement with primary sources and the historical contexts that shaped them. It is not a venue for modern technical economics, formal modelling, econometrics, or contemporary analytic-philosophical treatments of economic questions. Rather, its mission is to recover, interpret, and elucidate the great texts that formed the foundations of economic and historical inquiry.
3. The journal’s scope includes Greek and Roman reflections on exchange, virtue, justice, property, production, wealth, and polity—especially in the works of Hesiod, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, and the Roman jurists. It also welcomes studies of Judaic, Patristic, and early Christian economic notions as developed in the works of Philo, Josephus, the Church Fathers, and the early monastic and canonical traditions.
4. Medieval and Scholastic economic doctrines—Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus, Ockham, the Salamanca School, and related traditions—are likewise central to the journal’s interests, particularly where they shed light on questions of natural law, usury, just price theory, distributive and commutative justice, and political governance.
6. Submissions may also explore Renaissance and early-modern natural jurisprudence, mercantilism, early capitalism, and the emergence of classical political economy in texts by Erasmus, Machiavelli, Grotius, Pufendorf, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Smith, Ferguson, Mandeville, and the Physiocrats.
7. Essays elucidating economic dimensions of ancient and medieval historiography—Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Ibn Khaldun—are encouraged, as are studies of how classical economic concepts influenced the development of early scientific, theological, or moral systems.
8. Articles must be historically grounded, philologically attentive, and textually exacting. Submissions relying predominantly on secondary commentary, contemporary ideological polemic, or modern analytic formalism fall outside the remit of the journal. Systematic or theoretical essays are welcome only insofar as they emerge directly from, and remain accountable to, the primary texts and classical intellectual traditions.
9. Each issue includes research articles, textual analyses, critical editions, interpretive essays, long-form book reviews, and shorter notes that illuminate neglected passages, conceptual nuances, or lines of influence across epochs.
10. The journal aspires to cultivate a scholarly community that approaches classical economic and historical works with reverence, precision, and intellectual seriousness. The air of inquiry it seeks to maintain is one in which authors converse directly with the texts of antiquity and their successors, rather than with transient contemporary fashions.
