Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden Recent documents in Harry van der Linden en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:14:27 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/41 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/41 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:53:08 PDT This paper seeks to defend the thesis that this American project of military hegemony has a variety of global security costs of such combined magnitude that there is a strong prima facie case against the resort to armed force by the United States, so that its wars might be wrong even when there is a just cause. My thesis is based on the jus ad bellum principle of proportionality. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/40 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/40 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:22:14 PDT Just War Theorists have neglected that a lack of "just military preparedness" on the side of a country seriously undermines its capability to resort justly to military force. In this paper, I put forth five principles of "just military preparedness" and show that since the new Obama administration will seek to maintain the United States' dominant military position in the world, it will violate each of the principles. I conclude on this basis that we should anticipate that the Obama administration will add another page to the United States' history of unjust military interventions. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/39 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/39 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:52:06 PDT 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. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/38 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/38 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:16:38 PDT 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 making all agents fully autonomous in the economic sphere. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/37 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/37 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:02 PDT My main aim in this paper is to arrive at a defensible form of Marxian or socialist political universalism through a critical examination of Marx's own political universalism. In the next section, I will outline several moral errors that Walzer ascribes to political universalism, including Marx's, and show that Walzer largely misdirects his criticisms because what primarily accounts for Marx committing the errors is his Hegelian metaphysical conception of history, not his political universalism as such. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/35 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/35 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:54:27 PDT This solid but accessible and clearly-written introduction to Kant's ethics draws at times heavily from Sullivan's more technical and comprehensive Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory (1989). The introductory work, however, fully stands on its own with one unfortunate exception: Only citations from the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals are referenced; with regard to all other citations from Kant's work, Sullivan states (p. 2) that the references can be found in the "relevant sections" of his 1989 work. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/34 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/34 Fri, 01 May 2009 05:32:33 PDT Three encyclopedia entries from "Ready Reference: Ethics." Salem Press, 2004. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/33 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/33 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:35:08 PDT The neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) 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. Note: The full-text document linked to this entry contains both English and German versions of this book chapter. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/32 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/32 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:57:32 PDT Kant argues that it is the duty of humanity to strive for an enduring peace between the nations. For Kant, political progress within each nation is essential to realizing lasting peace, and so one would expect him to view political intervention- defined as coercive interference by one nation, or some of its citizens, with the affairs of another nation in order to bring about political improvements in that nation-as justified in some cases.! Kant, however, explicitly rejects all intervention by force, and some aspects of his work support an unqualified prohibition of political intervention. In this paper I will examine on which grounds, stated or inferred, Kant's practical philosophy upholds the absolute prohibition of political intervention, and conclude that, although these grounds are inadequate, they have the merit of pointing to important restrictions on justified political intervention. Harry van der Linden http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/31 http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/31 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:57:31 PDT 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" (p. 8), 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. Harry van der Linden