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    Schiller’s Philosophy of History
    In Antonino Falduto & Tim Mehigan (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller, Springer Verlag. pp. 371-387. 2023.
    Schiller’s philosophy of history has received comparatively little attention. This is partly because Schiller is perceived as a poor imitation of Kant or the existence of a systematic philosophy of history is simply denied. This chapter aims to remedy this deficit by first showing that Schiller developed a philosophy of history that shaped his understanding of history. The second part will identify important differences between Schiller’s conception of history and that of Kant. It will be shown …Read more
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    Kant s definition of substance is the focus of this philosophical study. The analysis shows that an adequate understanding of the term and the critical metaphysics of the substance which result from it must take into account the philosophical controversy over the simple substance in the first half of the 18th century dominated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. It is only against this background that the complexity and inconsistence of the critical concept of substance becomes ful…Read more
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    Michael N. Forster: Kant and Skepticism
    In Jürgen Stolzenberg, Fred Rush, Karl P. Ameriks & Paul Franks (eds.), Glaube und Vernunft/Faith and Reason, De Gruyter. pp. 289-292. 2010.
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    Kants Konzeption des höchsten Gutes
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 130 (1): 21-45. 2023.
    Kant’s highest good consists of happiness and the worthiness of happiness, that is, morality. The question of the exact connection between these two parts is disputed. Some argue that Kant proposed different, sometimes contradictory, concepts of the highest good. First, the highest good is said to consist in the distribution of happiness in relation to morality. Second, the highest good is said to describe a maximal or best state in which the greatest morality is associated with the highest happ…Read more
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    Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 98 Heft: 4 Seiten: 474-477.
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    Kann man Aristoteles’ Philosophie der Wahrnehmung noch für wahr nehmen?
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 121 (1): 3-32. 2014.
    The majority of current interpreters of Aristotle’s theory of perception assume that perception must be understood as a passive process. This assumption is mainly justified by systematic considerations. Particularly influential for the ongoing debate on the proper understanding of Aristotle’s theory is the work of Myles Burnyeat, whose interpretation amounts to a devastating critique of the Aristotelian philosophy of perception. This paper wants to shed some light on the kind of activity that is…Read more
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    Die sog. Preisschrift über die Fortschritte der Metaphysik hat in den letzten Jahren überraschend wenig Aufmerksamkeit in der Kantforschung erfahren. Das beginnt sich erst langsam zu ändern, bedingt vor allem durch das Wiedereinsetzen eines allgemeinen Interesses an Metaphysik, aber auch durch die Wiederentdeckung der Einsicht, dass die kantische Philosophie nicht nur ihren Ursprung in der nach-wolffschen Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts hat, sondern dass Kant mit seinen Fragestellungen insgesam…Read more
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    Bereits in der Antike galt Alexander von Aphrodisias als der größte Aristoteleskommentator. In seiner Schrift „De fato“ widmet er sich dem Determinismusproblem, einem Problem, das Aristoteles zwar in allen seinen Implikationen behandelt, aber kein eigenständiges Buch dazu verfasst und keine eindeutige Stellungnahme dazu gemacht hat. Im Sinne der aristotelischen Philosophie argumentiert Alexander gegen einen nicht genannten philosophischen Gegner, der von den meisten Interpreten jedoch als stoisc…Read more
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    This paper is devoted to the systematic place and function of divine providence in Kant. The main focus is put on the connection between the highest good as the ultimate object of morality and the different conceptions of providence. The paper is divided into three sections. First, it discusses Kant's critical answer to question of the compatibility of mechanism and teleology. Second, it addresses the role of providence in the context of the highest moral good. Third, it draws attention to the t…Read more
  • Skeptizismus und Idealismus in der Antike (review)
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 64 (4). 2010.
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    Kant und die Dinge an sich – Was leistet die ontologische Version der Zwei-Aspekete-Theorie?
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 35 (2): 123-144. 2010.
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    Wozu braucht Kant die Kategorie der Substanz? Dingheit und Einheit der Zeitvorstellung
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (4): 579-594. 2010.
    Kant is well known for his criticism of knowledge claims of traditional metaphysics. The concept of substance must be considered one of the most important notions in ontology. Kant transforms traditional ontology into an analytic of pure understanding. Accordingly, the concept of substance has become a category of pure understanding. The application of this category in the First Analogy of Experience faces some particular problems, which are highlighted in the current debate. This paper seeks to…Read more
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    Rassismus in der Klassischen Deutschen Philosophie?
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 70 (4): 641-662. 2022.
    In Germany the voices calling for a critical discussion of racist ideas in the works of the so-called classics of philosophy are growing louder. So far, the focus has been primarily on Kant and Hegel, in whose works racist statements are easily detected. However, the role of these racist ideas in their respective systems remains unclear, and especially in the case of Kant, the question also arises whether Kant is the author of the statements at all. Moreover, the accusation itself is quite ambig…Read more
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    Kein Freund von Epikur?
    In Dieter Hüning & Stefan Klingner (eds.), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768): Natürliche Religion und Popularphilosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 293-316. 2021.
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    Maja Schepelmann: Der senile Kant? Zur Widerlegung einer populären These, Paderborn: Mentis 2018. 286 S.
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    Es ist schwierig, Kant in der Frage der Willensfreiheit eine der heute üblichen philosophischen Sichtweisen zuzuordnen. Mithilfe des »transzendentalen Idealismus« meint Kant im Ergebnis die Vereinbarkeit von Freiheit und Naturnotwendigkeit begründen zu können. Zugleich hält er an einem Verständnis von Freiheit fest, demzufolge Freiheit »absolute Spontaneität« verlangt und deshalb nicht im Naturnotwendigen aufgehen kann. Seine Antwort verweist mit der Unterscheidung von »Ding an sich« und »Ersche…Read more
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    Hegel on Substance, Causality, and Interaction
    Hegel-Jahrbuch 2016 (1). 2016.
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    Die Stoische Kritik an der Aristotelischen Ursachenlehre
    Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 2 249-256. 2008.
    Already in antiquity the Aristotelian Philosophy was under attack by its philosophical opponents. The Stoics can surely be counted to the most important ones. Furthermore they can be regarded as one of the most influential philosophy schools of the Hellenistic time and in the early Roman Empire and their influenceeven on modern thinkers must not be neglected. It is well known that the Stoics not only advocated a physical monism but can also be described as determinists or, from a modern point of…Read more
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    Kants Fortschritte im Himmel
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (1): 81-108. 2023.
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    In the second half of the 18th century the voices criticizing the concept of simple substances as proposed by Leibniz and Wolff became increasingly louder. In response, Kant altered his theory of substances as first proposed in the 1750s. So for example, while his notion of substance in the Monadologia physica is simple and not merely in space, but fills space entirely, the Kantian position in the 1760s and early 1770s is quite different. This essay examines the solution Kant offers in his Inaug…Read more
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    Cicero on Natural and Artificial Divination
    Ancient Philosophy 44 (1): 225-246. 2024.
    Cicero distinguishes between two forms of divination: natural and artificial divination. Most contemporary scholars assume that Cicero presents a Stoic division and some even draw far-reaching conclusions about the scientific status of divination based on this distinction. However, his justification for the division is apparently contradictory and neither fits with Stoic nor Peripatetic claims that are found elsewhere. This paper examines the exact meaning of the division and sheds light on its …Read more
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    Hißmanns Versuch über die Wahrnehmung
    In Heiner F. Klemme, Gideon Stiening & Falk Wunderlich (eds.), Michael Hißmann : Ein Materialistischer Philosoph der Deutschen Aufklärung, Akademie Verlag. pp. 85-98. 2012.
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    Dieser Aufsatz nimmt eine wenig beachtete Passage aus der Kritik der reinen Vernunft zum Anlass, sich der Diskussion bezüglich der einfachen Substanzen in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts zu widmen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Frage nach den inneren und äußeren Bestimmungen der Substanz in den Kern der systematischen Substanzanalyse führt. Von welcher Art können die inneren Bestimmungen einer einfachen Substanz sein? Müssen diese von ideeller Natur sein, oder kann es sich auch um eine …Read more