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Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 Mar 2009

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 …


"Moral Relativism", Harry Van Der Linden Dec 1995

"Moral Relativism", Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

Harry van der Linden's contribution to: American Justice, ed. Joseph M. Bessette (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1996)


“Equality Of Opportunity”, Harry Van Der Linden Dec 1995

“Equality Of Opportunity”, Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

Harry van der Linden's contribution to: American Justice, ed. Joseph M. Bessette (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1996).