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31Dante's monarchia: aspects of its history of reception in the 14th centuryIn Francis Cheneval, B. Carlos Bazan, Eduardo Andujar & Leonard G. Sbrocchi (eds.), Actes du IXe Congrès international de Philosophie Médiévale, Ottawa, 17-22 août, . pp. 1474-1485. 1995.
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17Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar: EU citizenship, direct democracy and treaty ratificationEuropean Law Journal 13 (5): 647-663. 2007.This article argues that obligatory, simultaneous, and simple Treaty ratification by referenda is the next step in the consolidation of the political core of European citizenship. In the first part, general remarks about the special nature of EU citizenship highlight the relevance of referenda on EU Treaties for EU citizenship. In the second part, the normative and empirical case in favour of direct democracy is put forward. It is followed by the assessment of direct democracy in European integr…Read more
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Zwischenstaatliche Integration als Vorbild neuer WeltordnungStudia Philosophica 64 179-202. 2005.This article proposes the political organisation of interstate integration – characterised by functional differentiation and unbundled multi-level territoriality – as a political ideal type. The theoretical foundations and empirical conditions of this new form of political organisation are explored focussing on basic security threats, such as nuclear armament, transnational terrorism, and organised crime. The empirical conditions of multilateral democratic integration are not essentially differe…Read more
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53In this paper an analysis of Hobbes' argument in favor of the Leviathan is combined with a reassessment in a new security environment. The analysis shows that Hobbes' premises are complex and lead to conclusions that differ from the realist as well as from the world-state position, both attributed to Hobbesian logic in IR theory. A strict application of the Hobbesian argument in today's security context leads to a rationale of multilateral institution-building among states. In the first part of …Read more
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Ars imitatur naturam als methodisches Prinzip der politischen Philosophie und seine Anwendung im Defensor pacis des Marsilius von PaduaArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 60. 1993.
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87Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of PoliticsAnalyse & Kritik 35 (1): 255-269. 2013.The article argues that Rawls’s property-owning democracy should not be understood as a necessary standard of democratic legitimacy. This position contradicts Rawls’s own understanding to some extent, but a rejoinder with elements of political liberalism is possible. He concedes that justice as fairness is a ‘comprehensive liberal doctrine’ and that a well ordered society affirming such a doctrine ‘contradicts reasonable pluralism’. Rawls makes clear that reasonable pluralism in combination with…Read more
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317In a ‘demoi-cracy’, separate statespeoples enter into a political arrangement and jointly exercise political authority. Its proper domain is a polity of democratic states with hierarchical, majoritarian features of policy-making, especially in value-laden redistributive and coercive policy areas, but without a unified political community (demos). In its vertical dimension, demoi-cracy is based on the equality and interaction of citizens’ and statespeoples’ representatives in the making of common…Read more
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41The social construction of demoicracy in the European UnionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 16 (2): 235-260. 2017.The Eurozone crisis has brought the imperative of democratic autonomy within the EU to the forefront, a concern at the core of demoicratic theory. The article seeks to move the scholarship on demoicratic theory a step further by exploring what we call the social construction of demoicratic reality. While the EU’s legal-institutional infrastructure may imperfectly approximate a demoicratic structure, we need ask to what extent the ‘bare bones’ demoicratic character of a polity can actually be gro…Read more
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89Steven V. Hicks, international law and the possibility of a just world order. An essay on Hegel's universalismEthical Theory and Moral Practice 3 (4): 457-459. 2000.
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6Philosophische Werke / Das Gastmahl I-IV. Ital. /Dt.: Erstes BuchMeiner, F. 1996.Im ersten Buch des Convivio erläutert und verteidigt Dante sein Vorhaben. Es bietet den Zugang zu den nachfolgenden drei Büchern, in denen er zur inhaltlichen Vorstellung seiner Philosophie fortschreitet.
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55La réception de la “monarchie” de Dante ou Les métamorphoses d'une uvre philosophiqueVivarium 34 (2): 254-267. 1996.
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"die Philologen Bringen Aber Den Verstand Nicht Weiter." Von Der Notwendigkeit Und Nützlichkeit Des Kant-indexesFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 43 (1/2): 171-178. 1996.
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Considérations presque philosophiques sur les commentaires de la Politique d'Albert le Grand et de Thomas d'AquinFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 45 (1-2): 56-83. 1998.
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12The people in deliberative democracyIn Francis Cheneval, Samantha Besson & Jose Luis Martí (eds.), Applied legal philosophy, . pp. 159-179. 2006.
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19Auseinandersetzungen um die civitas maxima in der Nachfolge Christian WolffsStudia Leibnitiana 33 (2). 2001.This article studies the reception of Christian Wolff's theory of the civitas maxima by Hermann Friedrich Kahrel (1719-1787) and Michael Hanov (1695-1773). According to his previous work mentioned in the article (n. 2), the author considers the concept of civitas maxima as a methodological innovation. It is the normative fiction of a presumed rational consensus of mankind and of the states. As the article tries to show, this concept was misunderstood, not only by the enemies of Wolff but also by…Read more
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32Proclus politisé: La réception politique de Proclus au moyen âge tardifArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 78 (1): 11-26. 1996.