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35Kelsen’s Legal Positivism and the Challenge of Nazi LawVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 17 223-240. 2014.In this paper I am going to examine Kelsen’s legal positivism in the light of Nazilegal theory. My claim will be that Kelsen’s thesis that law and morality constitute two distinct normative spheres is highly plausible, but that some of his metaethical assumptions are seriously flawed
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35Philosophy, as we know, is an abstract expression of worries, sentiments and longings that move people and societies. Philosophical debates are often innovative, but sometimes we have reason to ask ourselves why they develop at all and what general social trends they follow. An example of such a philosophical discussion-one that seems bewildering to many-is the current dispute between egalitarians and anti-egalitarians which has also reached German-speaking countries and which divides philosophe…Read more
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513. Die Moral universeller Achtung als eine Ethik des GutenIn Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit: Moraltheorie Im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz, De Gruyter. pp. 257-272. 1996.
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42“A Community of Rational Beings”. Kant’s Realm of Ends and the Dinstinction between Internal and External FreedomKant Studien 107 (1): 125-159. 2016.This paper proposes a new account of the relationship between Kant’s ethics and Kant’s philosophy of right. I reject the claim of some philosophers that Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals cannot offer a foundation for Kant’s philosophy of right. While I agree that the basic principles of Kant’s philosophy of right cannot be deduced from Kant’s ethical Categorical Imperatives, I try to show that we find in Kant’s Groundwork the normative resources for grounding his philosophy of right…Read more
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11Global justice: Problems ofIn Lukas H. Meyer (ed.), Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law, Cambridge Univeristy Press. pp. 207. 2009.
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8EinleitungIn Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit: Moraltheorie Im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz, De Gruyter. pp. 11-14. 1996.
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24Constructions of Practical Reason: Interviews on Moral and Political Philosophy (edited book)Stanford University Press. 2002.The interview format creates a much more accessible account of complex philosophical ideas and problematic aspects of the contributors’ works than found in the works themselves.
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8VorbemerkungIn Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit: Moraltheorie Im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz, De Gruyter. pp. 9-10. 1996.
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69IntroductionErkenntnis 79 (S9): 1563-1563. 2014.The main impetus for organizing this event was the publication, in 2011, of Philip Pettit’s and Christian List’s book, *Group Agency*. List and Pettit argue that interpreting institutions like commercial corporations, governments, political parties, trade unions, churches, and universities as group agents offers a better understanding of their internal working and their effects on social life. Pettit and List base their account of group agency on a so-called “functionalist account of agency” whi…Read more
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32Published in: European Journal of Philosophy 18, 2, June 2010, pp. 296-310European Journal of Philosophy 18 (2): 296-310. 2010.
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1324Distortions of NormativityEthical Theory and Moral Practice 14 (3): 329-356. 2011.We discuss some implications of the Holocaust for moral philosophy. Our thesis is that morality became distorted in the Third Reich at the level of its social articulation. We explore this thesis in application to several front-line perpetrators who maintained false moral self-conceptions. We conclude that more than a priori moral reasoning is required to correct such distortions