Jörg Disse

Theologische Fakultät Fulda, Germany
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    Autonomy in Kierkegaard's 'Either-Or'
    In J. Giles (ed.), Kierkegaard and Freedom, Basingstoke. pp. 58-68. 2000.
    Aims to challenge Kant from the point of view of Kierkegaard's interpretation of autonomy.
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    Against the general view of analytical Plato-research I intend to show that Plato's Theory of Ideas can today still be interpreted as metaphysics in a positive sense. With the late Wittgenstein I concede that by hypostasizing concepts it is not possible to posit any kind of transcendance. However for Plato this was not the true reason for his metaphysical interpretation of Ideas, but - as G. Vlastos also notices - a metaphysical experience as it is described in particular in the Ascent-Passage o…Read more
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    Der Artikel versucht aufzuweisen, dass von Franz Rosenzweigs philosophischem Hauptwerk her, dem 1921 erschienenen "Stern der Erlösung", eine Alternative zur Ethik Kants entworfen werden kann, die zugleiche an einem der wichtigsten Grundsätze dieser Ethik, dem der unbedingten Achtung der Person, festhält und ihn vertieft. Statt das Selbst als identisch mit der allgemeinen Vernunftnatur des Menschen zu setzen, wie Kant es tut, soll mit Hilfe von Rosenzweig dargelegt werden, dass menschliches Hande…Read more
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    Levinas theory of a self is interpreted as a threefold model: an epistemic self, a lifeworld self and an intersubjective self. Against the modern idea of an identitiy of sovereignty and self-affirmation, Levinas wants to show that self-affirmation at its highest is reached where the self instead of being sovereign is in a position of dependence and passivity which is the case for the intersubjective self.
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    Alle Menschen wollen glücklich sein, das eigentliche Glück aber besteht darin, Gott zu haben, lautet ein Grundsatz der Anthropologie von Augustinus, der das abendländische Menschenbild wesentlich geprägt hat. Doch streben wirklich alle Menschen nach dem Glück als ihrem letzten Ziel? Und kann man die Frage nach dem Glück wirklich mit Gott in Verbindung bringen, Gott womöglich selbst mit dem ersehnten Glück identifizieren? Welche Rolle kommt Gott in einer Ethik des Glücks, welche Rolle in einer ni…Read more
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    W. Greve, Kierkegaards maieutische Ethik (review)
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 18 (3): 89-91. 1993.
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    Metafizyka. Od Platona do Hegla
    Wydawn. WAM. 2005.
    Polish translation of "Kleine Geschichte der abendländischen Metaphysik: Von Platon bis Hegel". The history of Western metaphysics is being unfold on the basis of nine outstanding philosophers. For ancient philosophy: Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus; for medieval philosophy: Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham; for the modern period: Descartes, Kant and Hegel. The final chapter outlines some prominent opponents of metaphysics in the 19th/20th Century (Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittge…Read more
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    Das unmittelbare Selbstverhältnis bei Søren Kierkegaard
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 17 (1): 17-34. 1992.
    Inquires about the existence of a prereflective self-consciousness within Kierkegaard's theory of existence
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    Die abendländische Philosophie ist von einer durchgängigen Vorherrschaft des Allgemeinen gegenüber dem Individuellen geprägt. Da Erkennen wesentlich heißt, das Partikulare als Fall des Allgemeinen zu verstehen, besteht eine Art fatale Tendenz zur Unterordnung, eine Tendenz, deren Opfer nicht nur der einzelne Mensch ist, sondern heute auch die als beliebig ersetzbares Wegwerfprodukt verstandene Natur. Am Leitfaden der Philosophie Hans Urs von Balthasar weist das Buch den Weg zu einer Metaphysik, …Read more
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    What do human beings desire? Desire is diverse, multi-layered, often contradictory, directed to the most various goals: from the satisfaction of the simplest, biologically-related needs, such as hunger, thirst, or sexuality, to elaborate forms of desire for self-realization, social recognition or religious experience. But what is the ultimate goal of desire? Is there such a goal? The book examines desire as a phenomenon in the intersection area of anthropological and psychological philosophy. It…Read more
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    Religion und das Verlangen des Menschen nach Vollkommenheit
    Neue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 52 (3): 247-267. 2010.
    The article deals with the question of whether human beings are religious by nature. The answer is based on the idea of relating religion to the structure of human desire understood as essentially a desire for absolute perfection. Religion is defined as a relation to a non-sensual reality superior to the human realm which enables human beings to find orientation in life. The relationship of religion to human desire consists in its being an expression of a natural desire for a perfection extendin…Read more
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    Klassische Metaphysik und Religion: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem späten Wittgenstein
    Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 32 (81): 257-274. 1999.
    In his late philosophy, Wittgenstein radically dissociates religion and metaphysics. In the first part of this paper, the implicit consequences of his critique of metaphysics for his philosophy of religion are analysed. On the one hand, it appears that Wittgenstein, in contrast to Aristotelian metaphysics, has no place for any metaphysical understanding of God, on the other hand, in contrast to Plato's metaphysical epistemology, it becomes evident that for him there is no possibility of any kind…Read more
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    The Two Process Model of Cognition and Kierkegaard's Stages of Life
    E-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie 19. 2013.
    My aim is to relate Søren A. Kierkegaard’s early theory of stages as described basically in “Either-Or” to the theory of interest underlying the two process model of cognition of the Canadian psychologist Keith E. Stanovich with regard to the question of the highest formal goal we can pursue in our life. On the basis of Stanovich’s distinction between type 1 and type 2 processing and Kierkegaard’s distinction between an esthetical and an ethical stage of life, I argue for an extension of Stanovi…Read more
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    Analysis of a basic idea of Christian anthropology: that human desire is ultimately a desire of God.
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    Analysis of the significance of Plato's "tên de tou anankaiou kai agathou phusin, hoson diapherei tôi onti" (Pol. 493.c) for the thought of Simone Weil.