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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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104Deontology: 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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357Dialectics, Self-Consciousness, and Recognition: The Hegelian Legacy (edited book)Århus Universitetsforlag. 2009.Hegel's influence on post-Hegelian philosophy is as profound as it is ambiguous. Modern philosophy is philosophy after Hegel. Taking leave of Hegel's system appears to be a common feature of modern and post-modern thought. One could even argue that giving up Hegel's claim of totality defines philosophy after Hegel. Modern and post-modern philosophies are philosophies of finitude: Hegel's philosophy cannot be repeated. However, its status as a negative backdrop for modern and post-modern thought …Read more
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42"Hvorfor pædagogisk filosofi?" (edited book)Studier i pædagogisk filosofi, no. 1. 2012.Filosofi og pædagogik er gamle fæller, og der er et overlap mellem filosofiens historie og pædagogikkens historiske litteratur. Store tænkere som Platon, Aristoteles, Augustin, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Herbart og Dewey hører hjemme begge steder. I den pædagogiske filosofi kan almene teoretiske og praktisk filosofiske spørgsmål udforskes systematisk og historisk. Gennem diskussioner af sådanne spørgsmål kan man forholde sig mere nysgerrigt, …Read more
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