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6Looking 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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4Introductory 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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18After 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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75J. 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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11Equality 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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5Die 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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18What 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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39Ein 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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16In Geschichten verstrickt. Uber: Peter Bieri: Das Handwerk der FreiheitDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 52 (2): 313. 2004.
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5The 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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6Der Begriff der moralischen Pfl ichtIn Moral Als Vertrag?: Beiträge Zum Moralischen Kontraktualismus, Walter De Gruyter. 2002.
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8Moral 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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14Angewandte Ethik zwischen theoretischem Anspruch und sozialer FunktionDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 46 (5): 753. 1998.
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4Geschlechterdifferenz und VerstehenseinheitDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 42 (2): 281-290. 1994.
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9Einleitung: Ethik zwischen Hobbes und KantIn Moral Als Vertrag?: Beiträge Zum Moralischen Kontraktualismus, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 1-36. 2002.
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23Some Problems in the Justification of Moral RightsVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 2 43-55. 1994.“Having a moral right” in private and public debates probably is one of the most important arguments to bring some foundation to one’s claims. Within international law and politics, for example, one easily falls back on universal “human rights”, especially if neither a more subtle moral argument nor prudential reasons find a hold. But in some contrast to this agreement on the strong practical relevance of rights, both the conceptual analysis and normative justification of rights are rather contr…Read more
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13Comment on Robert H. Myers. Finding Out What is Substantive in CooperationAnalyse & Kritik 33 (1): 141-148. 2011.Myers' offer of cooperation as a medicine for ailing moral theories is welcomed as potentially helpful, even if his handling of it is diagnosed as implicitly one-sided consequentialist. His search for an ethically “substantive way of engaging with others” is shown as not coherent with his remarks on the tasks cooperation as an ethical concept has to fulfil. Instead, it is proposed that the concept be disentangled from the micro- problems Myers' wants it to solve, and that it be read more freely,…Read more
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