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54In 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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69Property-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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318In 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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46The 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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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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92Steven 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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56La 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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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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13The people in deliberative democracyIn Francis Cheneval, Samantha Besson & Jose Luis Martí (eds.), Applied legal philosophy, . pp. 159-179. 2006.
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35Proclus politisé: La réception politique de Proclus au moyen âge tardifArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 78 (1): 11-26. 1996.
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30Der kosmopolitische Republikanismus: Erläutert am Beispiel Anacharsis Cloots'Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 58 (3). 2004.Der Artikel erläutert mit dem kosmopolitischen Republikanismus einen Aspekt, der in der nationalstaatlich fixierten und meist euroskeptischen Republikanismus-Forschung vernachlässigt worden ist, aber in der frühen Phase der Französischen Revolution eine wichtige Rolle spielte. In der Perspektive des hier vorliegenden Artikels erscheint der revolutionäre Republikanismus zumindest in seinen Anfängen nicht als Inbegriff nationalstaatlich gehegter Demokratie und Autonomie, sondern als kosmopolitisch…Read more
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42This paper assesses the theory, first voiced by Schelling and Kant, according to which an infinite historical process will lead to cosmopolitan institutions.The assessment will mainly be done on the basis of theories about infinitely repeated games. The first part of the paper reconstructs “infinitesimal” historical cosmopolitanism as proposed by Schelling and Kant. The second part confronts this position with the results of the theory of infinitely repeated games among groups. The third part of…Read more
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Thomas Von aquin: Über die einheit Des geistes - "de unitate intellectus" und über die bewegung Des herzens - "de motu cordis" (review)Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 36 (n/a): 199-204. 1989.