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Questioning The Resort To U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry Van Der Linden
Questioning The Resort To U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
This paper seeks to defend the thesis that this American project of military hegemony has a variety of global security costs of such combined magnitude that there is a strong prima facie case against the resort to armed force by the United States, so that its wars might be wrong even when there is a just cause. My thesis is based on the jus ad bellum principle of proportionality.
Barack Obama, Resort To Force, And U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry Van Der Linden
Barack Obama, Resort To Force, And U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Just War Theorists have neglected that a lack of “just military preparedness” on the side of a country seriously undermines its capability to resort justly to military force. In this paper, I put forth five principles of “just military preparedness” and show that since the new Obama administration will seek to maintain the United States’ dominant military position in the world, it will violate each of the principles. I conclude on this basis that we should anticipate that the Obama administration will add another page to the United States’ history of unjust military interventions.
Cohen, Collective Responsibility, And Economic Democracy, Harry Van Der Linden
Cohen, Collective Responsibility, And Economic Democracy, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
My main objective in this paper is to show that Hermann Cohen's ethics offers an important but hitherto neglected contribution to the- current debate within Anglo-American ethics on the moral status of the modern business corporation.
Hermann Cohen’S Political Philosophy And The Communitarian Critique Of Liberalism, Harry Van Der Linden
Hermann Cohen’S Political Philosophy And The Communitarian Critique Of Liberalism, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
My main aim here is to examine what the significance is of the communitarian critique of liberalism for Hermann Cohen's political philosophy. I will conclude that Cohen's socialist Kantianism can successfully meet this critique. Also, I will argue that his political philosophy can better deal with some of the problems that communitarians detect in our Western democracies than can communitarianism itself. One crucial reason for this is that Cohen completes the original Kantian liberal project by making all agents fully autonomous in the economic sphere.
Marx's Political Universalism, Harry Van Der Linden
Marx's Political Universalism, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
My main aim in this paper is to arrive at a defensible form of Marxian or socialist political universalism through a critical examination of Marx's own political universalism. In the next section, I will outline several moral errors that Walzer ascribes to political universalism, including Marx's, and show that Walzer largely misdirects his criticisms because what primarily accounts for Marx committing the errors is his Hegelian metaphysical conception of history, not his political universalism as such.
Review Of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction To Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Roger J. Sullivan, An Introduction To Kant's Ethics (1994), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Roger Sullivan, An Introduction to Kant's Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994, viii + 183 pages.
Cohen's Socialist Reconstruction Of Kant's Ethics, Harry Van Der Linden
Cohen's Socialist Reconstruction Of Kant's Ethics, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
The neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) famously wrote that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.” This paper seeks to explicate Cohen’s socialist reconstruction of Kant’s ethics and show that this reconstruction overcomes some weaknesses of Kant’s ethics. In conclusion, the paper discusses the contemporary relevance of Cohen’s cooperative socialism.
Kant, The Duty To Promote International Peace, And Political Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
Kant, The Duty To Promote International Peace, And Political Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Kant argues that it is the duty of humanity to strive for an enduring peace between the nations. For Kant, political progress within each nation is essential to realizing lasting peace, and so one would expect him to view political intervention- defined as coercive interference by one nation, or some of its citizens, with the affairs of another nation in order to bring about political improvements in that nation-as justified in some cases.! Kant, however, explicitly rejects all intervention by force, and some aspects of his work support an unqualified prohibition of political intervention. In this paper I will examine …
Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Baynes's two main objectives are to show that Kant, Rawls, and Habermas share the view that "the idea of an agreement among free and equal persons [i. e., autonomous persons] ... constitutes the normative ground of social criticism" (p. 8), and that this "constructivist" view is more adequately developed and defended with each successive theorist. The study, however, goes beyond these aims and can often fruitfully be read as a comparative study of Rawls and Habermas.
Review Of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen Und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung Und Einheit; Volume Ii, Der Marburger Neukantianismus In Quellen, Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen Und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung Und Einheit; Volume Ii, Der Marburger Neukantianismus In Quellen, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp (1986): Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in Quellen, Basel/Stuttgart: Schwabe & Co., 1986
Review Of Richard Dien Winfield, The Just Economy (1988), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Richard Dien Winfield, The Just Economy (1988), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Richard Dien Winfield, The Just Economy, New York/London: Routledge, 1988, 252 pp. Hardcover $35.00.
Review Of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom And The End Of Reason: On The Moral Foundation Of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Richard L. Velkley, Freedom And The End Of Reason: On The Moral Foundation Of Kant's Critical Philosophy (1989), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Richard L. Velldey, Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1989. Pp. xxi + 222. US$29.95. ISBN 0-226-85260-1.
Review Of Hans Reiss, Editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Hans Reiss, Editor, Kant, Political Writings (1991), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
This collection of the political writings of Kant is part of the new Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.
Review Of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare In The Kantian State (1999), Harry Van Der Linden
Review Of Alexander Kaufman, Welfare In The Kantian State (1999), Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Harry van der Linden's review of: Welfare in the Kantian State. By Alexander Kaufman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xii, 179. ISBN 0-19-829467-0 (cloth). £42.50, $45.00.
Explaining, Assessing, And Changing High Consumption, Harry Van Der Linden
Explaining, Assessing, And Changing High Consumption, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
These writings reflect the renewed interest in the 1990s of scholars and the public in questioning the consumer society, an interest that the political crises engendered by 9/11 have overshadowed but not eliminated. In The Overspent American, Schor explains the emergence of strong doubts about high consumption by arguing that a “new consumerism” of escalating desires has evolved that is increasingly costly to the American high consumers themselves.
Questioning Just War Theory, Harry Van Der Linden
Questioning Just War Theory, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Review of: "Michael Walzer, Arguing About War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 208. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-300-10365-4."
The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
The Left And Humanitarian Intervention, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Although the author concedes that much criticism from the left alleging ulterior imperialist motives of missions for “humanitarian intervention” is valid; nevertheless, the author argues that it would be wrong to rule out the concept of humanitarian intervention, even when conducted by imperialist powers for imperialist motives. The concept of “rescue” remains a valid humanitarian concept, and a logical foundation for solidarity with populations who find themselves under assault and defenseless. The author considers various regulative principles that may guide more careful thinking about humanitarian intervention.
Would The United States Doctrine Of Preventative War Be Justified As A United Nations Doctrine?, Harry Van Der Linden
Would The United States Doctrine Of Preventative War Be Justified As A United Nations Doctrine?, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
On the same day, 23 September 2003, that President George W. Bush defended his Iraq policy to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan also spoke to the Assembly. Annan reiterated his opposition to the view that states may independently be justified in using military force “preemptively” to avoid the dangers posed by the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) among states and terrorists, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
Economic Migration And Justice, Harry Van Der Linden
Economic Migration And Justice, Harry Van Der Linden
Harry van der Linden
Our main thesis is that the U.S. has a duty of justice to adopt an open border policy with regard to economic migrants because it is significantly responsible for the unjust social and economic conditions that bring such migrants to its borders. From this perspective, President Bush’s recent “guest worker” proposal is morally objectionable because it is designed more to serve U.S. business interests than the interests of the migrants. We address three objections to opening borders: it will worsen the economic condition especially of low-skilled native workers; it will harm developing countries by increasing the so-called “brain drain”; and …