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24Moral Dignity and Moral Vulnerability in a Kantian PerspectiveIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 197-206. 2013.
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9Das Recht der Vernunft: Kant und Hegel über Denken, Erkennen und Handeln (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 1995."Hans Friedrich Fulda zum 65. Geburtstag"--P. [5].
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21Kants Theorie des guten Willens zwischen empiristischer Konsenstheorie und Crusianischer MoraltheologieIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 202-210. 2001.
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27Adam Smith's marketplace of life, by James R. OttesonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.
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113The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays (edited book)Routledge. 2011.We are often pressed to forgive or in need of forgiveness: Wrongdoing is common. Even after a perpetrator has been taken to court and punished, forgiveness still has a role to play. How should a victim and a perpetrator relate to each other outside the courtroom, and how should others relate to them? Communicating about forgiveness is particularly urgent in cases of civil war and crimes against humanity inside a community where, if there were no forgiveness, the community would fall apart. Forgi…Read more
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24Moral principles are universally valid, valid for all human beings in so far as they are mature, responsible and of a sound mind – this idea is an essential part of our understanding of morality. Moral principles do not allow for any exceptions. Therefore, we expect from every person we take for mature and responsible to do her or his moral duty. This does not mean that we are naive about the moral goodness of human beings. We just cannot give up this expectation without considering a person as …Read more
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Das Recht der Vernunft. Kant und Hegel über Denken, Erkennen und HandelnIn Petersen Koenig Fricke & Christel Johanna Fricke (eds.), Das Recht der Vernunft, Frommann Holzbock. pp. 760-761. 1996.
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L'homme législateur et bricoleur: Crusius prédécesseur de KantIn Robert Theis & Lukas K. Sosoe (eds.), Les sources de la philosophie kantienne au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Vrin. pp. 193-201. 2005.
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53Adam Smith: The sympathetic process and the origin and function of conscienceIn Christopher J. Berry, Maria Pia Paganelli & Craig Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith, Oxford University Press. pp. 177. 2013.According to Adam Smith, the acquisition of moral conscience is an essential part of a person’s moral education. I argue that moral conscience as conceived by Smith enables a person to intentionally take the role of an impartial spectator. I trace the process of moral education from the child in its family, to interaction with peers to learning and then to a self-evaluation, learning to become one’s own spectator and judge. This is a move from uncritical trust to external guidance to acquiring t…Read more
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27The Good, the Bad, and the UglyProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 793-802. 1995.
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19Nature, Culture, Gods, and Reason: Exploring Evaluative and Normative Constraints on Right Action in a Historical and Comparative PerspectiveJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 503-515. 2015.
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21Intersubjectivity and Objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl: A Collection of Essays (edited book)Ontos. 2012.Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume s skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in high regard, inquiring into the way we perceive and emotionally experience the world, into the nature and function of human empathy and sympathy and the role of the imagination in processes of intersubjecti…Read more
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18Revenge, Punishment, and Justice in Athenian Homicide LawJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 645-665. 2015.
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150Lo que no podemos hacernos el uno al otro. Sobre el perdón y la vulnerabilidad moralUniversitas Philosophica 32 (64): 125-152. 2015.Forgiveness typically becomes an issue where an offender has wronged a victim. What the offender and his victim are concerned with when engaging in a process of asking for and granting forgiveness includes the social relations that previously existed between them. It is against the background of these relations that the question arises whether there can be a duty for a victim to forgive and a right for an offender to be forgiven. I suggest distinguishing between personal and moral relations betw…Read more
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21Theories of Human Action in Early Medieval Brahmanism : Activity, Speech and DesireJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 567-595. 2015.
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