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508Samuel Pufendorf and the Right of NecessityAporia 3 47-64. 2012.From the end of the twelfth century until the middle of the eighteenth century, the concept of a right of necessity –i.e. the moral prerogative of an agent, given certain conditions, to use or take someone else’s property in order to get out of his plight– was common among moral and political philosophers, who took it to be a valid exception to the standard moral and legal rules. In this essay, I analyze Samuel Pufendorf’s account of such a right, founded on the basic instinct of self-preservati…Read more
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57Avatar vs MononokePhilosophy Now 85 44-46. 2011."Avatar" and "Princess Mononoke" as representative of radically different positions in environmental ethics.
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1099Det vi eide førfast eiendom. Hugo Grotius og suum (What We Own Before Property: Hugo Grotius and the suum)Arr, Idéhistorisk Tiddskrift 3 3-14. 2013.At the basis of modern natural law theories, the concept of the suum, or what belongs to the person (in Latin, his, her, its, their own), has received little scholarly attention despite its importance both in explaining and justifying not only the genealogy of property, but also that of morality and war.1 In this paper I examine Hugo Grotius's what it is, what things it includes, what rights it gives rise to and how it is extended in the transition from the state of nature to civil society. I th…Read more
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46The Volcanic Asymmetry or the Question of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural DisastersJournal of Political Philosophy 23 (1): 192-212. 2015.Why do we assign to countries rights to all the positive utilities from their natural resources, but hold them under no duty to bear costs for the negative utilities generated by those resources for those beyond their borders? In this paper I suggest that this ‘volcanic asymmetry’ has been overlooked by statist and cosmopolitan theories and that, despite of the arguments that might be given on its behalf, keeping this asymmetry requires further normative justification. I present two ways of gett…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |