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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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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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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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47Impartiality through ‘Moral Optics’: Why Adam Smith revised David Hume's Moral SentimentalismJournal of Scottish Philosophy 19 (1): 1-18. 2021.We read Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments as a critical response to David Hume's moral theory. While both share a commitment to moral sentimentalism, they propose different ways of meeting its main challenge, that is, explaining how judgments informed by (partial) sentiments can nevertheless have a justified claim to general authority. This difference is particularly manifest in their respective accounts of ‘moral optics’, or the way they rely on the analogy between perceptual and moral ju…Read more
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37Husserl’s Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity : Historical Interpretations and Contemporary Applications (edited book)Routledge. 2018.This collection examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy and explores the potential for developing novel ways of addressing and resolving contemporary philosophical issues on that basis. This is the first time Iso Kern offers an extensive overview of this rich field of inquiry for an English-speaking audience. Guided by his overview, the remaining articles present new approaches to a range of topics and problems that go to the heart of its core theme of intersu…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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27Adam Smith's marketplace of life, by James R. OttesonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.
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25Questioning the Importance of Being Normal – An Inquiry into the Normative Constraints of NormalityJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 691-713. 2015.
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25Genesis und Geltung moralischer Normen – Ein Gedankenexperiment von Adam SmithIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. pp. 33-63. 2005.
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25Fair play, Übelnehmen und der Sinn für Gerechtigkeit: Kritische Überlegungen zu Adam SmithIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. pp. 128-159. 2005.
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24David Hume und Adam Smith. Zur philosophischen Dimension einer FreundschaftIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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24Adam Smith über den Zufall als moralisches ProblemIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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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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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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23KantIn Stefan Lorenz Sorgner & Oliver Fürbeth (eds.), Music in German philosophy: an introduction, University of Chicago Press. 2010.This chapter presents a short biography of Immanuel Kant. It then reviews his particular thoughts on musical philosophy. Kant was born on April 22, 1724 in Königsberg. He never married and died in his house on February 12, 1804. He placed the theory of cognition at the beginning of his critical transcendental philosophy, in Critique of Pure Reason. His theory of art was pointed toward identifying the place that the judgment of beautiful objects in nature and art occupies in his system of transce…Read more
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23„Moral Sense“ – Zur Geschichte einer Hypothese und ihrer Kritik bei Adam SmithIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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22EinleitungIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. pp. 1-14. 2005.
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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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21Theories of Human Action in Early Medieval Brahmanism : Activity, Speech and DesireJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 567-595. 2015.
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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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20Angemessenheit und Mittelmaß – Wie Gefühle und Handlungen aufeinander abgestimmt werdenIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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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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19Sympathie für Adam Smith. Einige aktuelle philosophische und psychologische ÜberlegungenIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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19Smith über die Gleichheit der Würde und den Standpunkt der 2. PersonIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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18Revenge, Punishment, and Justice in Athenian Homicide LawJournal of Value Inquiry 49 (4): 645-665. 2015.
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18Adam Smith und die Objektivität moralischer Urteile: Ein MittelwegIn Hans-Peter Schütt & Christel Fricke (eds.), Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin/new York. 2005.
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17Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph (edited book)Berlin/New York. 2005.Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle erfährt seit einigen Jahren zunehmende Beachtung, die den bisher vornehmlich als Nationalökonomen bekannten Adam Smith als eigenständigen Moralphilosophen würdigt. Die vielfältigen Perspektiven, aus denen seine Theorie heute besonderes Interesse verdient, dokumentiert der vorliegende Band mit Beiträgen namhafter Moralphilosophen und Adam Smith-Forscher.
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16Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life, by James R. Otteson (review)European Journal of Philosophy 15 (2): 301-306. 2007.
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