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39Over moraal en staat (review)Filosofie En Praktijk 16 (2): 110-111. 1995.J.A.A. van Doorn, De intellectueel als ideoloog. Kritiek van de politieke intelligentsia (Amersfoort 1994); Angela Verbeek, Wikken en wegen. Een hedendaagse inleiding in de ethiek (Best 1994); S. Hogervorst, Staat en welzijn. Het belang van een vernieuwde conceptie van de Minimale Staat (Assen 1995).
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63Maakbaarheid overdacht (review)Filosofie En Praktijk 20 (2): 107-109. 1999.Overview of essays concerning environmental planning and social engineering in the Netherlands. Notes on their historical, theoretical, philosophical and policy foundations
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79Return to reason (review)Filosofie En Praktijk 23 (4): 58-59. 2002.Physicist and philosopher of science Stephen Toulmin (London 1922 - Los Angeles 2009) published his last book Return to Reason in 2001 (Cambridge, MA). Review of translation in Dutch (2001). Introductory notes on his scholarly book reception in the Netherlands: An Examination of the Place of Reason in Ethics (1950), Wittgenstein's Vienna (1972, with Allan Janik), Cosmopolis. The Hidden Agenda of Modernity (1990). "Terug naar de Rede" contains a farewell to the quest for certainty and "the drea…Read more
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86Ulrich Beck, De wereld als risicomaatschappij. Essay over de ecologische crisis en de politiek van de vooruitgang (review)Filosofie En Praktijk 18 (2): 111. 1997.Review of author of Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne (1986), Ulrich Beck. Five essays from Politik in der Risikogesellschaft (1990) and other titles (M. Hajer & M. Schwarz introd. eds.; transl. I. van der Aart)
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106Ulrich Beck, Politik in der Risikogesellschaft (1990), transl. in Dutch and introd. by M. Hajer & M. Schwarz and I. van der Aart: De wereld als risicomaatschappij(Amsterdam 1997). (review)Filosofie En Praktijk 18 (2): 111. 1997.Early seminal essays of German sociologist Ulrich Beck on ecological crisis- review of a Dutch translation
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186Aspects of justice. Debate on ethical principles and social justice - ethische principes en sociale gerechtigheid. Referring to Hans Kelsen (1952); Chaïm Perelman (1945; 1960; 1961); Hanna F. Pitkin (1972); John Rawls (1971) Aspecten van rechtvaardigheid - M.A. Thesis, Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, June 2, 1975
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126Review of Wouter Achterberg, Samenleving, natuur en duurzaamheid. Een inleiding in de milieufilosofie (Assen: Van Gorcum 1994)Filosofie En Praktijk 16 (3): 167-168. 1995.Review of a comprehensive introduction to a philosophy of the environment. Refers to the United Nations Brundtland-report (1987) and its ground-breaking definition of "sustainable development". Account of dilemma's of wants and needs of future generations. Notes and comments on Garrett Hardin, Tragedy of the commons (1968), Jacques Ellul, The technological society (1964) and Langdon Winner, Autonomous technology (1977). Study ends with a well-founded plea for an ecological society.
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117City Lights. Review of René Boomkens, Een drempelwereld. Moderne ervaring en stedelijke openbaarheid (Rotterdam, NAI 1998)Filosofie En Praktijk 21 (2): 64-67. 2000.Critical reflections concerning 4 cities: Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Los Angeles; 4 periods respectively: the twenties, the thirties, the seventies, the nineties. 'To open the city' debate, functionalism and town planning, postmodern city & architecture, public spaces, urban dwellers.
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170Twee routes naar de goede samenleving. Over de politieke filosofie van Trudy van Asperen en Avishai MargalitFilosofie En Praktijk 20 (4): 192-202. 1999.Critical comments on two roads to a good society. (These roads in response to John Rawls' A theory of justice, 1971): Dutch ethical theorist Trudy van Asperen (Het bedachte leven, 1993), and Avishai Margalit (A decent society, 1996).
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214Zygmunt Bauman en Ulrich Beck over 'leven in ambivalentie'Filosofie En Praktijk 17 (3): 141-149. 1996.Uncertainty replaces the conviction that rationality may be founded, ultimately. Comments on and exemplified by Zygmunt Bauman's "Intimations of postmodernity" (1992), the Quality-of-life discussion (Nussbaum & Senn (eds.) 1993) and "reflexive modernization" (Ulrich Beck, 1994). Uncertainty as a principle leads to the "imperative of responsibility" (Hans Jonas, 1984).
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130Minima Philosophica - Invloedrijke boekenFilosofie En Praktijk 17 96-100. 1996.discussion of 'The hundred most influential books since the war', TLS October 6, 1995 - seminal works published before and after the Second World War, from Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron and Kenneth Arrow, to Michael Walzer and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus logico-philosophicus; Philosophical Investigations)