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341"The origins of objectivity in communal discussion" : einige Bemerkungen zu Gadamers und Davidsons Interpretationen des "Philebos"In Christopher Gill & François Renaud (eds.), Hermeneutic Philosophy and Plato: Gadamer's Response to the Philebus, Academia. pp. 211-242. 2010.The first chapter, "Der Hintergrund von Gadamers 'Phänomenologischen Interpretationen' in Sein und Zeit" traces the origins of Gadamer’s interpretation of the Philebus in Sein und Zeit. Especially important is that Dasein is, thanks to speech , already outside of itself in the world. The second chapter "Gadamers Dialektische Ethik" gives a short summary of the main points of Gadamer's interpretation of the Philebus. The third chapter "Davidsons reinterpretation of von Gadamer's Dialektischer Eth…Read more
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23Platos Idee des GutenAcademia Verlag. 2015.At the centre of the monograph (1984, first edition) lies a detailed interpretation and critique of the idea of the Good in the Republic. The main thesis of the interpretation runs as follows: The idea of the Good functions as a third item between thinking and being. The main purpose of the monograph is to introduce the systematic problem of the third item via the historical problem of the idea of the Good. The second, enlarged edition (1989) gives a new reconstruction of an "exasperatingly diff…Read more
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197"M. Hossenfelder:" Die Philosophie der Antike 3. Stoa, Epikureismus und Skepsis (review)Studia Philosophica 48 (n/a): 200. 1989.This is a book review of “Malte Hossenfelder: Die Philosophie der Antike 3, Stoa, Epikureismus und Skepsis”.
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326The debate over Plato’s “ so called unwritten doctrines”, which he communicated only to a small circle of trusted disciples, has caused a stir among philosophers in recent decades. Rafael Ferber assumes a differentiated position in this controversy. He is convinced that the unwritten doctrines did exist, but that Plato, for reasons inherent in the process of gaining knowledge, was unable to communicate these doctrines even to his closest disciples. In this book, Ferber outlines the discussion an…Read more
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190Continuing the introductory blog to the question: "What is a human being?", that is “What is a zôon logon echôn?“, this blog tries to answer the question by unfolding the meaning of the expression “logos“.
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53Platos Idee des GutenAcademia Verlag. 1984.At the centre of the monograph (1984, first edition) lies a detailed interpretation and critique of the idea of the Good in the Republic. The main thesis of the interpretation runs as follows: The idea of the Good functions as a third item between thinking and being. The main purpose of the monograph is to introduce the systematic problem of the third item via the historical problem of the idea of the Good. The second, enlarged edition (1989) gives a new reconstruction of an "exasperatingly diff…Read more
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333Review of: Eugen Fink: Grundfragen der antiken Philosophie, Würzburg 1985 (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 41 (1): 694-696. 1985.This is a review of lectures given by Eugen Fink at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in the winter term of 1947/48, “Fundamental Questions of Ancient Philosophy,” edited by Franz A. Schwarz
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810Plato as Teacher of Socrates?In Ferber Rafael (ed.), International Plato Studies, Academia Verlag. pp. 443-448. 2016.What distinguishes the Socrates of the early from the Socrates of the middle dialogues? According to a well-known opinion, the “dividing line” lies in the difference between the Socratic and the Platonic theory of action. Whereas for the Platonic Socrates of the early dialogues, all desires are good-dependent, for the Platonic Socrates of the middle dialogues, there are good-independent desires. The paper argues first that this “dividing line” is blurred in the "Symposium", and second that we ha…Read more
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220II Symposium Platonicum. Grüdung der Internationalen Platon-GesellschaftZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 45 (1). 1991.This is a report on the II Symposium Platonicum, which took place in Perugia, Italy, September 1-6, 1989, and on the founding of the International Plato Society, which took place in Bevagna, Province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy, September 3, 1989.
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137Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Die Möglichkeit des Guten. Ethik im 21. JahrhundertPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 115 (1): 230. 2008.This is a review of: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl. Die Möglichkeit des Guten. Ethik im 21. Jahrhundert, München. C. H. Beck 2006.
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368Der Grundgedanke des "Tractatus" als Metamorphose des obersten Grundsatzes der "Kritik der reinen Vernunft"Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 33 (n/a): 129-139. 1986.The paper puts forward that the basic principle of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (4.0312) transforms “the supreme principle of all synthetic judgments a priori” in Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” (A158/B197) from a level of reason to the level of language. Both philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein, put forward a transcendental principle and both hold a formal identity true, Kant an identity between the form of experience and the form of the object of experience, Wittgenstein an identity between the f…Read more
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1„The occurrence of an essence“: „Dies aber ist die Ousia.“ Einige Bemerkungen zur aristotelischen Metaphysik Z 17, 104 1b 4-9 (review)Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 26 (1): 61-76. 2001.
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268Platos Idee des GutenAcademia Verlag. 2015.At the centre of the monograph (1984, first edition) lies a detailed interpretation and critique of the idea of the Good in the Republic. The main thesis of the interpretation runs as follows: The idea of the Good functions as a third item between thinking and being. The main purpose of the monograph is to introduce the systematic problem of the third item via the historical problem of the idea of the Good. The second, enlarged edition (1989) gives a new reconstruction of an "exasperatingly diff…Read more