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    Menschenwürde: ein für die Medizinethik irrelevanter Begriff?
    Ethik in der Medizin 24 (4): 297-306. 2012.
    ZusammenfassungEs wurde für die These argumentiert, dass der Begriff der Würde in der Medizinethik nutzlos sei und in den Fällen, in denen er verständlich verwendet wird, nichts anderes meint als den Respekt vor der Autonomie von Personen. In diesem Aufsatz soll gezeigt werden, dass diese These falsch ist. Es wird ein Begriff von Würde vorgestellt, der sich nicht auf den Begriff des Respekts vor der Autonomie von Personen reduzieren lässt. Anhand der Diskussion um ein Sterben in Würde soll auch …Read more
  •  8
    Book Review (review)
    Economics and Philosophy 14 (2): 357-362. 1998.
  •  58
    Wieso moralische Achtung wichtig ist
    Analyse & Kritik 31 (2): 351-361. 2009.
    Bittner argues in his paper that the idea of a general duty to respect persons is of much less importance than some moral philosophers think. If respect plays a role in our lives it is mainly appriciation respect persons have to merit. Respecting persons as such is, Bittner thinks, not just irrelevant, but also incompatibel with personal relations. Against this it is argued that respect for persons should be seen as the basic moral duty we have towards persons. And in addition, it is argued, tha…Read more
  • The indispensability of motives: Thoughts on Ernst Fehr and altruism
    with Mark S. Peacock and Michael Schefczyk
    Analyse & Kritik 27 (1): 188-196. 2005.
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    Are the values of different options and goods, as cost-benefit analysis assumes, commensurable? Not always. The incommensurability of certain options is based on the fact that preferences are sometimes not rankable, even if the agent is fully informed about the options in question. In addition, even if all values were commensurable they could not be compared in monetary terms. If this is the case, cost-benefit analysis should not be seen as a decision procedure.
  •  2
    Moralischer Realismus
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (4): 778-779. 1998.
  •  105
    Human Rights and Human Dignity: A Reply to Doris Schroeder (review)
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (1): 155-161. 2014.
    According to Doris Schroeder, the view that human rights derive from human dignity should be rejected. She thinks that this is the case for three different reasons: the first has to do with the fact that the dominant concept of dignity is based on religious beliefs which will do no justificatory work in a secular society; the second is that the dominant secular view of dignity, which is the Kantian view, does not provide us with a justification of human rights, i.e. rights all humans have; and t…Read more
  • Der Wert von Autonomie
    Studia Philosophica 49 (n/a): 39-48. 1990.
  •  107
    Value pluralism: Some problems (review)
    Journal of Value Inquiry 33 (1): 71-78. 1999.
  •  10
    No Title available: Reviews
    Economics and Philosophy 14 (2): 357-362. 1998.
  •  4
    Ökologie aus philosophischer Sicht (edited book)
    with Thomas Kesselring, Ortwin Renn, and Humboldt-Studienzentrum Ulm)
    Humboldt-Studienzentrum, Universität Ulm. 1994.
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    Human dignity, self-respect, and dependency
    with P. Kaufmann, H. Kuch, C. Neuhaeuser, and E. Webster
    In Peter Schaber, P. Kaufmann, H. Kuch, C. Neuhaeuser & E. Webster (eds.), Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, . pp. 151-158. 2011.
    The paper deals with the question of whether poverty as such violates the dignity of persons. It is argued that it does. This is, it is argued, not due to a lack of basic goods, nor to the fact that poverty prevents persons from enjoying the rights they have, particularly the right to bodily integrity. Poverty does violate dignity, so it is argued, insofar as poor people are dependent on others in a degrading way.
  • Analytische Moralphilosophie
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (3): 423-423. 1999.
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    Should research on stem cells be allowed?
    Ethics in Science and Technology 2 7-24. 2005.
  •  56
    Human Rights and Basic Needs
    with Marion Albers, Thomas Hoffmann, and Reinhardt Jörn
    In Peter Schaber, Marion Albers, Thomas Hoffmann & Reinhardt Jörn (eds.), Ius Gentium, . pp. 109-120. 2014.
  •  11
    Externe Handlungsgründe
    In Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, W. De Gruyter. pp. 842-849. 1994.
  •  29
    Achtung vor der Würde von Personen
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (1): 169-173. 2009.
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    Was bedeutet es, die Autonomie anderer zu respektieren?
    Archiv Für Rechts- Und Sozialphilosphie 102 (2): 174-185. 2016.
    To respect the autonomous choices of persons is an important moral principle. There is, however, little agreement about its nature and its normative importance. This is due to the fact that the concept of autonomy as well as the moral relevance of autonomy are contested. It is argued in this paper that the debate about autonomy is at its core a debate about the reasons for respecting decisions. Decisions of persons are to be respected as their decisions, and they have to be respected as determin…Read more
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    The so-called resource curse raises moral issues. Who, if anyone, is morally responsible for it? This article argues that this question amounts to: who is blameworthy for the violations of people's property rights? The international oil companies are blameworthy for the violations of property rights only in the case of complicity, not in the normal purchase case. Yet the international community has to take action against massive violations of property rights. The article discusses different meas…Read more
  •  32
    Analytic ethics in German philosophy
    with Anna Kusser and Klaus-Peter Rippe
    Cogito 8 (3): 264-267. 1994.
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    Für viele stellt das Instrumentalisierungsverbot, wonach man andere Menschen nie blo als Mittel behandeln darf, eine fundamentale moralische Wahrheit dar. Dieses Buch ist der Versuch, diese Ansicht näher zu fassen und zu begründen. Das Instrumentalisierungsverbot spielt nicht nur in unserer Alltagsmoral, sondern auch in moraltheoretischen Diskussionen eine wichtige Rolle. Verschiedenste Praktiken werden mit der Begründung als unzulässig kritisiert, dass mit ihnen Menschen instrumentalisiert würd…Read more
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    Humanitäre Intervention als moralische Pflicht
    Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 92 (3): 295-303. 2006.
    Some authors think that humanitarian interventions are always morally wrong. Others think that they are sometimes justified. In this paper, I argue that the international community has a moral duty to humanitarian intervention when it comes to mass murder, mass rape, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and deliberate starvation. It is argued that we all have good reasons to endorse an intervention norm protecting basic rights.
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    Democracy and Environmental Decision-Making
    with Klaus Peter Rippe
    Environmental Values 8 (1): 75-88. 1999.
    It has been argued that environmental decision-making can be improved be introducing citizen panels. The authors argue that citizen panels and other models of citizen participation should only be used as a consulting forum in exceptional cases at the local level, not as a real decision-making procedure. But many problems in the field of environmental policy need nonlocal, at least regional or national, regulation due to the fact that they are of national impor-tance. The authors argue that there…Read more