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Ethischer Sozialismus: Zur politischen Philosophie des Neukantianismus (edited book)Suhrkamp. 1994.
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8War Emissions, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Just War Theory in advanceInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy. forthcoming.The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has already caused large amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and will continue to do so for many years after hostilities have ceased mainly because of the emissions linked to the rebuilding of destroyed or damaged housing, public buildings, infrastructure, factories, and the like. My aim in this paper is to discuss how in a time of climate emergency such emissions of war should impact the political morality of states initiating, continu…Read more
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17Neo-kantianism (3rd ed.)In Robert Audi (ed.), Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 707-708. 1999.Harry van der Linden's contribution to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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16Essays on Kant's Political Philosophy, ed. Howard Lloyd WilliamsEthics 104 196. 1994.Article reviews the book "Essays on Kant's Political Philosophy," edited by Howard Lloyd Williams
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16Review of Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp : Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in QuellenIdealistic Studies 20 262-63. 1990.Harry van der Linden's review of: Helmut Holzhey, Cohen und Natorp : Volume I, Ursprung und Einheit; Volume II, Der Marburger Neukantianismus in Quellen, Basel/Stuttgart: Schwabe & Co., 1986
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18Windelband, Wilhelm (3rd ed.)In The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, . pp. 1131. 2015.Harry van der Linden's contribution to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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13Is Global Poverty a Moral Problem for Citizens of Affluent Societies?The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 1 229-234. 2007.The gap between the affluent and the global poor has increased during the past few decades, whether it is measured in terms of private consumption, income, or wealth. One would expect that severe poverty in a world of abundance would constitute a moral challenge to the affluent, but in fact it hardly seems a serious ethical concern. Affluent citizens seem so little morally concerned with global poverty. However, the most promising approach seems to be to explore and divulge factually and concept…Read more
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32Moral RelativismIn Ready Reference: American Justice, Salem Press. pp. 522-23. 1996.Harry van der Linden's contribution to: American Justice, ed. Joseph M. Bessette
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22The neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen famously wrote that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.” This paper seeks to explicate Cohen’s socialist reconstruction of Kant’s ethics and show that this reconstruction overcomes some weaknesses of Kant’s ethics. In conclusion, the paper discusses the contemporary relevance of Cohen’s cooperative socialism
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22Hermann Cohen’s Political Philosophy and the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism (includes French translation)Cahiers de Philosophie Politique Et Juridique, University of Caen 26 93-118. 1994.My main aim here is to examine what the significance is of the communitarian critique of liberalism for Hermann Cohen's political philosophy. I will conclude that Cohen's socialist Kantianism can successfully meet this critique. Also, I will argue that his political philosophy can better deal with some of the problems that communitarians detect in our Western democracies than can communitarianism itself. One crucial reason for this is that Cohen completes the original Kantian liberal project by …Read more
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29The neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen famously wrote that Kant “is the true and real originator of German socialism.” This paper seeks to explicate Cohen’s socialist reconstruction of Kant’s ethics and show that this reconstruction overcomes some weaknesses of Kant’s ethics. In conclusion, the paper discusses the contemporary relevance of Cohen’s cooperative socialism.
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7Review of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas (review)Kant Studien 86. 1995.Baynes's two main objectives are to show that Kant, Rawls, and Habermas share the view that "the idea of an agreement among free and equal persons [i. e., autonomous persons]... constitutes the normative ground of social criticism", and that this "constructivist" view is more adequately developed and defended with each successive theorist. The study, however, goes beyond these aims and can often fruitfully be read as a comparative study of Rawls and Habermas
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11Cohen, Collective Responsibility, and Economic DemocracyIl Cannocchiale: Rivista di Studi Filosofici 1 345-361. 1991.My main objective in this paper is to show that Hermann Cohen's ethics offers an important but hitherto neglected contribution to the- current debate within Anglo-American ethics on the moral status of the modern business corporation
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Carol C. Gould, "Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society" (review)Theory and Society 19 (4): 495. 1990.
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4On the same day, 23 September 2003, that President George W. Bush defended his Iraq policy to the General Assembly of the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan also spoke to the Assembly. Annan reiterated his opposition to the view that states may independently be justified in using military force “preemptively” to avoid the dangers posed by the spread of weapons of mass destruction among states and terrorists, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
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26Just War Principles: An Introduction with Further ReadingIn Michael W. Brough, John W. Lango & Harry van der Linden (eds.), Rethinking the Just War Tradition, Suny Press. pp. 243-250. 2007.A short introduction to the main jus ad bellum and jus in bello principles. A short annotated bibliography is included.
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23Combatant’s Privilege ReconsideredIn Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Philosophy Documentation Center. pp. 821-821. 2008.International law grants to legitimate combatants the right to kill enemy soldiers both in wars of aggression and defensive wars. A main argument in support of this “combatant’s privilege” is Michael Walzer’s doctrine of the “moral equality of soldiers.” The doctrine argues that soldiers fighting in wars of aggression and defensive wars have the same moral status because they both typically believe that justice is on their side, and their moral choices are equally severely restricted by the over…Read more
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7President Barack Obama has clearly placed himself in the just war tradition, and so we may ask how successful has President Obama in fact been as just war theorist? His justification of the recent NATO intervention in Libya shows that the record is at best mixed. More broadly, Obama’s failure as just war theorist is at least partly a failure of the theory itself: as long as this theory does not address issues of “just military preparedness,” it will fail to place real constraints on American res…Read more
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26Review of Howard Williams, Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2013.Harry van der Linden's review of: Howard Williams, Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 216pp., $90.00 , ISBN 9780230244207
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32Review: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley Jay Strawser (review)Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review 43 202-204. 2015.Review of: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley Jay Strawser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
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