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5World'S Finest PhilosophersIn Mark D. White (ed.), Superman and Philosophy, Wiley. 2013-03-11.Superman and Batman are close friends and colleagues in the Justice League. But they are very different, especially when it comes to their views on humanity and their opinions of human nature. This chapter discusses the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and G.W.F. Hegel to better understand these friends’ difference of opinion on humanity and human nature. Superman's view of human nature is much more optimistic than that of Batman and Hobbes. The author claims that Superman and Batman have radically d…Read more
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32Kant and the Practical ManDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 50 132-156. 2017.The Appendix to Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace is commonly viewed as an explication of the systematic relations between political practice and normative political theory. This paper provides an alternative interpretation of Kant’s main aim in the Appendix which is to provide an argument against the so-called “practical man.” The practical man believes that human nature precludes normative political ideals from ever playing a significant role within political practice. Drawing on the 1793 text “On…Read more
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27Why Be Just? The Problem of Motivation in Hegel and RawlsRatio Juris 31 (3): 326-345. 2018.At the heart of any theoretical problem of justice lies the problem of motivation: Even if we could conceive of a way to develop a comprehensive system of just laws, and even if we could rationally believe in the justice of these laws, how could we ever ensure that we—or anyone else—would be motivated to abide by them? By unearthing how the problem of motivation sways canonical discussions of justice, the article brings forth intrinsic similarities and differences in these discussions that are o…Read more
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9Møller, Sofie: Kant’s Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure ReasonSATS 23 (2): 207-210. 2022.
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200Set udefra - om det filosofiske bliks distance (review)Slagmark - Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie 70 164-172. 2014.Anmeldelse af Ole Thyssens 'Det filosofiske blik' og 'Blikskift'.
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56From conditions of equality to demands of justice: equal freedom, motivation and justification in Hobbes, Rousseau and RawlsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (1): 7-25. 2015.Equal freedom is the common starting point for most contractual theories of justice from Hobbes and Rousseau to Rawls. But while equal freedom defines a common starting point for these theories, this does not result in a general consensus on the conception of justice. On the contrary, different ways of conceptualizing the contractual starting point leads to different conceptions of the demands of justice. To fully understand the relationship between equal freedom and justice we therefore first n…Read more
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