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33Cosmopolitanism – Not a ‘major ideology’, but still an ideologyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 42 (2): 200-224. 2016.Today the idea of cosmopolitanism has become widely accepted as an appropriate answer to what we now call globalization. A key reference is Kant who argues for a Recht of the world citizen, and this is normally understood as a cosmopolitan law. Apparently Kant lets the law of the world citizen be limited to a right to visit, but somehow his peace project must imply something more than just this very modest claim. Following a hint from Kant himself I take a closer look at the material aspect of c…Read more
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92From Below to Above Rawls on Just WarProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 40 169-175. 2008.From A Theory of Justice to The Law of Peoples Rawls’s liberalism develops from individualism to a kind of communitarianism. This apparently makes him blind to conflicts between the individual and the collective, and the resulting position contributes to change his perspective on just war. From a duty to prevent war by civil disobedience he develops a duty to initiate war because of human right violations, and this must be criticized
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17Book Review: Ethical Formation: Practical Reason and the Socially Constituted Subject (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (1): 118-121. 2004.
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17Arne Johan Vetlesen: Menneskeverd og Ondskap. Essays og artikler 1991-2002 (review)SATS 5 (2): 141-147. 2004.
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2Den etiska vågen av omänsklighet: Om bioetik, utilitarism och liberalismRes Publica 64 7-31. 2004.
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103Deontology: born and kept in servitude by utilitarianismDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 43 (1): 69-95. 2008.The distinction between teleology and deontology is today almost universally accepted within practical philosophy, but deontology is and has from the beginning been subordinate to utili-tarianism. ‘Deontology’ was constructed by Bentham to signify the art and science of private morality within a utilitarian worldview. The classical distinction was constructed by Broad as a refinement of Sidgwick’s utilitarianism, and then adopted by Frankena. To Broad it signified two opposite tendencies in ethi…Read more
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