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623Ciceronian Officium and Kantian DutyReview of Metaphysics 75 (4): 667-706. 2022.In this paper we examine the genealogy and transmission of moral duty in Western ethics. We begin with an uncontroversial account of the Stoic notion of the kathēkon, and then examine the pivotal moment of Cicero’s translation of it into Latin as ‘officium’. We take a deflationary view of the impact of Cicero’s translation and conclude that his translation does not mark a departure from the Stoic ideal. We find further confirmation of our deflationary position in the development of the notion of…Read more
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102The happy death of the Stoic. Wisdom and finitude in Stoic philosophyBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 13 (1): 87-106. 2008.This paper attempts to furnish a Stoic reply to an accusation addressing the Stoics' ideal of the wise man according to which it is impossible to realize their ideal and therefore their whole system has to face a paradox: How is wisdom possible when all people are fools and it is impossible for them to become good? In addition to this question there is another important problem connected with the ideal of wisdom. The Stoic philosophers deny transcendental ideas. Instead they are well known for t…Read more
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Katja Maria Vogt, Law, Reason, and the Cosmic City. Political Philosophy in the Early StoaPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 118 (1): 178. 2011.
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25Epikur über den Gegenstand der WahrnehmungArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 97 (3). 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 97 Heft: 3 Seiten: 271-307.
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21Hegel on Aristotle’s Notion of Perception – a Critical Assessment in the Light of a Contemporary DebateHegel-Jahrbuch 2015 (1). 2015.
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21Heidegger on ‘Thing in Itself’ and ‘Appearance’: A Promising Interpretation of Kant?In Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1277-1286. 2021.
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50Gerhard Ernst, die objektivität der moralEthical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (3): 317-319. 2009.
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15Gerhard Ernst, Die Objektivität der Moral: Paderborn: mentis, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89785-234-1, € 29.80 (paperback) (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (3): 317-319. 2009.
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28EinleitungIn Mario Brandhorst, Andree Hahmann & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), Sind wir Bürger zweier Welten?: Freiheit und moralische Verantwortung im transzendentalen Idealismus, Meiner. pp. 9-20. 2012.
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61Weltstoff und absolute Beharrlichkeit: Die Erste Analogie der Erfahrung und der Entwurf Übergang 1–14 des Opus postumum (review)Kant Studien 102 (2): 168-190. 2011.In Kant's theoretical philosophy substance is not only constitutive for objects as one of the categories of pure reason, but also functions as a substrate for the unity of time. Result of these different functions is an ambiguity in the meaning of Kant's notion of substance. Is there only one or are there many individual substances? This paper traces the ways in which Kant uses substance not only in the Critique of Pure Reason, but also in the draft „Transition 1–14“ of the Opus postumum to find…Read more
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13Weltstoff und absolute Beharrlichkeit: Die Erste Analogie der Erfahrung und der Entwurf Übergang 1–14 des Opus postumumKant Studien 102 (2): 168-190. 2011.In Kant's theoretical philosophy substance is not only constitutive for objects as one of the categories of pure reason, but also functions as a substrate for the unity of time. Result of these different functions is an ambiguity in the meaning of Kant's notion of substance. Is there only one or are there many individual substances? This paper traces the ways in which Kant uses substance not only in the Critique of Pure Reason, but also in the draft „Transition 1–14“ of the Opus postumum to find…Read more
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9Über die Fortschritte der kritischen Metaphysik: Beiträge zu System und Architektonik der kantischen Philosophie (edited book)Felix Meiner Verlag. 2017.Die sog. Preisschrift über die Fortschritte der Metaphysik hat in den letzten Jahren überraschend wenig Aufmerksamkeit in der Kantforschung erfahren. Das beginnt sich erst langsam zu ändern, bedingt vor allem durch das Wiedereinsetzen eines allgemeinen Interesses an Metaphysik, aber auch durch die Wiederentdeckung der Einsicht, dass die kantische Philosophie nicht nur ihren Ursprung in der nach-wolffschen Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts hat, sondern dass Kant mit seinen Fragestellungen insgesam…Read more
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33Mit Aristoteles gegen die Stoiker?: Zufall und akzidentelle Verursachung in der Schrift "De fato" des Alexander von AphrodisiasZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 61 (3): 361-377. 2007.Bereits in der Antike galt Alexander von Aphrodisias als der größte Aristoteleskommentator. In seiner Schrift „De fato“ widmet er sich dem Determinismusproblem, einem Problem, das Aristoteles zwar in allen seinen Implikationen behandelt, aber kein eigenständiges Buch dazu verfasst und keine eindeutige Stellungnahme dazu gemacht hat. Im Sinne der aristotelischen Philosophie argumentiert Alexander gegen einen nicht genannten philosophischen Gegner, der von den meisten Interpreten jedoch als stoisc…Read more
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Kein Freund von Epikur?In Dieter Hüning & Stefan Klingner (eds.), Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768): Natürliche Religion Und Popularphilosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 293-316. 2021.
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Skeptizismus und Idealismus in der Antike (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 64 (4). 2010.
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50Mit Aristoteles gegen die Stoiker?: Zufall und akzidentelle Verursachung in der Schrift "De fato" des Alexander von AphrodisiasZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 61 (3). 2007.Bereits in der Antike galt Alexander von Aphrodisias als der größte Aristoteleskommentator. In seiner Schrift „De fato“ widmet er sich dem Determinismusproblem, einem Problem, das Aristoteles zwar in allen seinen Implikationen behandelt, aber kein eigenständiges Buch dazu verfasst und keine eindeutige Stellungnahme dazu gemacht hat. Im Sinne der aristotelischen Philosophie argumentiert Alexander gegen einen nicht genannten philosophischen Gegner, der von den meisten Interpreten jedoch als stoisc…Read more
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22Wozu braucht Kant die Kategorie der Substanz? Dingheit und Einheit der ZeitvorstellungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 58 (4): 579-594. 2010.Kant is well known for his criticism of knowledge claims of traditional metaphysics. The concept of substance must be considered one of the most important notions in ontology. Kant transforms traditional ontology into an analytic of pure understanding. Accordingly, the concept of substance has become a category of pure understanding. The application of this category in the First Analogy of Experience faces some particular problems, which are highlighted in the current debate. This paper seeks to…Read more
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24Rassismus in der Klassischen Deutschen Philosophie?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 70 (4): 641-662. 2022.In Germany the voices calling for a critical discussion of racist ideas in the works of the so-called classics of philosophy are growing louder. So far, the focus has been primarily on Kant and Hegel, in whose works racist statements are easily detected. However, the role of these racist ideas in their respective systems remains unclear, and especially in the case of Kant, the question also arises whether Kant is the author of the statements at all. Moreover, the accusation itself is quite ambig…Read more
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10Kritische Metaphysik der Substanz: Kant Im Widerspruch Zu LeibnizWalter de Gruyter. 2009.Kant s definition of substance is the focus of this philosophical study. The analysis shows that an adequate understanding of the term and the critical metaphysics of the substance which result from it must take into account the philosophical controversy over the simple substance in the first half of the 18th century dominated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff. It is only against this background that the complexity and inconsistence of the critical concept of substance becomes ful…Read more
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13Tetens über die Freiheit als Vermögen der SeeleIn Gideon Stiening & Udo Thiel (eds.), Johann Nikolaus Tetens : Philosophie in der Tradition des Europäischen Empirismus, De Gruyter. pp. 199-216. 2014.
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21Maja Schepelmann: Der senile Kant? Zur Widerlegung einer populären These, Paderborn: Mentis 2018. 286 SPhilosophische Rundschau 66 (2): 186. 2019.
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19Kants Konzeption des höchsten GutesPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 130 (1): 21-45. 2023.Kant’s highest good consists of happiness and the worthiness of happiness, that is, morality. The question of the exact connection between these two parts is disputed. Some argue that Kant proposed different, sometimes contradictory, concepts of the highest good. First, the highest good is said to consist in the distribution of happiness in relation to morality. Second, the highest good is said to describe a maximal or best state in which the greatest morality is associated with the highest happ…Read more
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13Schiller’s Philosophy of HistoryIn Antonino Falduto & Tim Mehigan (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller, Springer Verlag. pp. 371-387. 2023.Schiller’s philosophy of history has received comparatively little attention. This is partly because Schiller is perceived as a poor imitation of Kant or the existence of a systematic philosophy of history is simply denied. This chapter aims to remedy this deficit by first showing that Schiller developed a philosophy of history that shaped his understanding of history. The second part will identify important differences between Schiller’s conception of history and that of Kant. It will be shown …Read more
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5Pflichtgemäß, aber töricht! Kant über Spinozas Leugnung der VorsehungIn Dieter Hüning, Stefan Klingner & Carsten Olk (eds.), Das Leben der Vernunft. Beiträge zur Philosophie Kants, De Gruyter. pp. 477-505. 2013.
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8Kann man Aristoteles’ Philosophie der Wahrnehmung noch für wahr nehmen?Philosophisches Jahrbuch 121 (1): 3-32. 2014.The majority of current interpreters of Aristotle’s theory of perception assume that perception must be understood as a passive process. This assumption is mainly justified by systematic considerations. Particularly influential for the ongoing debate on the proper understanding of Aristotle’s theory is the work of Myles Burnyeat, whose interpretation amounts to a devastating critique of the Aristotelian philosophy of perception. This paper wants to shed some light on the kind of activity that is…Read more
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Was bedeutet willensfreiheit für die stoiker?: Alexander Von aphrodisias und der willensbegriff in der antikeExistentia 17 (1-2): 137-160. 2007.
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