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Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, And War, Harry Van Der Linden Sep 2014

Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, And War, Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

In this paper I argue that a merit of Iris Young’s social connection model of responsibility for structural injustices is that it directs the American people’s responsibility for unjust wars, such as the recent war against Iraq, toward their responsibility to abolish the “war machine,” including the “empire of bases,” that is a contributing factor of unjust U.S. wars. I also raise two objections to her model. First, her model leads us to downplay the culpability of the American people as a political collective in voting to continue the Iraq war with the re-election of George W. Bush. Second, Young …


Marx And Morality: An Impossible Synthesis?, Harry Van Der Linden Mar 2010

Marx And Morality: An Impossible Synthesis?, Harry Van Der Linden

Harry van der Linden

A discussion of Allen E. Buchanan, Marx and Justice (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982); Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon, eds., Marx. Justice. and History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980); and Kai Nielsen and Steven C. Patten, eds., Marx and Morality, Supplementary Volume VII of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Guelph: Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy, 1981).


"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).