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8Looking at the War RealisticallyIn Anton Leist & Rolf Zimmermann (eds.), After the War?: How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories, De Gruyter. pp. 117-146. 2024.
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6Introductory Essay Still in the Face of War: On Framing Political Realities AnewIn Anton Leist & Rolf Zimmermann (eds.), After the War?: How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories, De Gruyter. pp. 1-52. 2024.
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20After the War?: How the Ukraine War Challenges Political Theories (edited book)De Gruyter. 2024.Russia’s war against Ukraine has grave consequences in several political categories. These include: a reassessment of the school of ‘political realism’, one of whose proponents claims to have predicted the war. Was the West partly ‘responsible’ for the war? Second, to what extent does the war of aggression, as an undeniable violation of law, damage the status of international law and justice? Third, the war is embedded in political developments that stretch back a century. It is examined in its …Read more
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J.M. Coetzee and Ethics (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2010.In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilization." The film of his novel _Disgrace_, starring John Malkovich, brought his challenging ideas to a new audience. An…Read more
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78J. M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature (edited book)Columbia University Press. 2010.This collection takes stock of J.M. Coetzee's impact from a number of interesting angles, Including animals, sexuality, race, and reason. The time is truly ripe for such a volume.
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2Naturalismus bei Foot und HursthouseIn Thomas Hoffmann & Michael Reuter (eds.), Natürlich gut: Aufsätze zur Philosophie von Philippa Foot, De Gruyter. pp. 121-148. 2010.
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Morality United. Answering the Normative and Nonnormative of Moral NormsIn Martin G. Weiss & Hajo Greif (eds.), Ethics, society, politics: proceedings of the 35th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 2012, De Gruyter Ontos. pp. 261-294. 2013.
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6Verkürzte Politik: Warum Demokratie nicht nur deliberativ verteidigt werden kannPhilosophische Rundschau 70 (1): 14. 2023.
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12Equality and Merit. Through Experiments to Normative JusticeAnalyse & Kritik 42 (1): 137-170. 2020.When we want to justify claims against one another, we discover that conceptual thought alone is not sufficient to legitimize property and income in the relative and proper proportions among members of a productive group. Instead, the basis for justification should also be seen in motivational states, validated less by rational thought than by an effective behaviour. To circumnavigate otherwise dangerously utopian claims to justice, the social sciences, and especially behavioural economics, are …Read more
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6Die Welt verloren - und zumindest teilweise wiedergefunden. Nicht-metaphysische Grundlagen der ökologischen EthikIn Hans Lenk & Hans Poser (eds.), Neue Realitäten. Herausforderung der Philosophie: Xvi. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie Berlin 20.–24. September 1993, De Gruyter. pp. 142-156. 1995.
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19What makes bodies beautifulLeist, Anton . What Makes Bodies Beautiful. Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, 28:187-219. 2003.Health and beauty are the most important physical ideals. This paper seeks to compare and contrast these ideals, based on a value theory of human abilities. Health is comprehended as a potential ability to act grounded in bodily functions. Beauty is explained as a symbolising reference to happiness, physical beauty as a combination of organic orientation to purpose and virtuous orientation to action. Physical beauty is the implicit symbolic expression of mental and physical health. This teleolog…Read more
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18Ein Plädoyer für die Beendigung der Suche nach WahrheitskriterienZeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 6 (2): 217-234. 1975.Es soll die These begründet werden, daß die Suche nach Wahrheitskriterien als philosophische Anstrengung sinnlos ist, weil einerseits mit Wahrheit ein Absolutheitsanspruch der Erkenntnis erhoben werden muß, andererseits aber ein solcher Anspruch mit Hilfe von Wahrheitskriterien nicht eingelöst werden kann. Die Begründung faßt den spezifischen Geltungscharakter des Wahrheitsanspruchs und einen unausweichlichen Regreß bei Wahrheitsfragen als geeignete Hinweise auf, daß und wieso Wahrheitskriterien…Read more
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17In Geschichten verstrickt. Uber: Peter Bieri: Das Handwerk der FreiheitDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52 (2): 313. 2004.
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2The Pragmatic Turn, by Richard J.Bernstein. Cambridge: Polity, 2010, xi + 263 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐7456‐4907‐8 hb £55.00; ISBN 978‐0‐7456‐4908‐5 pb £17.99 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 20 (4): 644-649. 2012.
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10Moral Als Vertrag?: Beiträge Zum Moralischen Kontraktualismus (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2002.Der moralische Kontraktualismus ist neben der kantischen und utilitaristischen Tradition die dritte Haupttradition einer aufgeklärten Moralphilosophie. Seine Kernthese besagt, daß moralische Normen und Forderungen legitim sind, wenn die Betroffenen sich aus ihren Interessen heraus auf die Etablierung dieser Normen hätten einigen können. Eine vernünftige Moral ist demnach, obwohl sie Freiheitsbeschränkungen verlangt, zum gegenseitigen Vorteil der Einzelnen. Die Autoren des Bandes diskutieren im L…Read more
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2Wir und Ich. Überlegungen zur Begründung moralischer NormenIn Moral Als Vertrag?: Beiträge Zum Moralischen Kontraktualismus, Walter De Gruyter. 2002.
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6Der Begriff der moralischen Pfl ichtIn Moral Als Vertrag?: Beiträge Zum Moralischen Kontraktualismus, Walter De Gruyter. 2002.
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16Angewandte Ethik zwischen theoretischem Anspruch und sozialer FunktionDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 46 (5): 753. 1998.
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13Social Relations Instead of Altruistic PunishmentAnalyse & Kritik 27 (1): 158-171. 2005.Ernst Fehr’s experimental research on altruistic behaviour aims at superseding the classical homo oeconomicus in micro-economic behaviour theory. This essay discusses Fehr’s results from two points of view: first, in regard to the understanding of social action associated with the term “altruism”; second, in regard to the ‘anthropological’ strategy of research that is based on the laboratory method. Against the emphasis on altruism it will be argued that it misleads into providing a distorted de…Read more
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7Eine individualistische Theorie sozialen Handelns. Zu Raimo Tuomelas "A Theory of Social Action"Analyse & Kritik 7 (2): 180-205. 1985.This critical review concentrates on four important parts of Raimo Tuomela’s analytical theory of social action. It examines the book’s reconstructions of social action, of practical reasoning in this context, of social norms and it investigates its claim to a conceptual individualism. The result is critical in several aspects. Tuomela’s most original idea in the analysis of joint action, that of we-intentions, is not broad enough to cover more than a part of social action in the commonly unders…Read more
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41Sustainability is currently the term dominating environmental policy. Its extensive political diffusion is in stark contrast, however, to the extent to which there is agreement over its meaning. Its ability to motivate is not in question, but a certain scepticism surrounds its ideological content. Since ideological terms have no objective basis, it is therefore important for the purposes of environmental policy to establish whether such scepticism is justified.
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1Überlebt der Utilitarismus? Peter Singer und das TötungsverbotStudia Philosophica 50 (n/a): 143-161. 1991.
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