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Vorwort zur chinesischen Übersetzung von LebensgefühleEksistenz. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Intercultural Philosophy 1 (1): 125-128. 2022.In this paper, the philosopher of life, Ferdinand Fellmann, contrasts the European and Chinese feelings of life based on his own understanding. Both life feelings have their own cultural foundations. Based on this comparison, he argues that a certain balance can be sought between the two cultures in order to achieve common human values.
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Welt der Abgründe. Julian Nida-Rümelins „Wittgenstein’sche Perspektive“ revidiertIn 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. 187-202. 2013.
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3Interpretationismus und symbolischer Pragmatismus. Zur Diskussion zwischen Günter Abel und Hans Lenk in AZP 13.3 (1988)Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 15 (2): 51-60. 1990.
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6Hermeneutik und PsychologieDilthey-Jahrbuch Für Philosophie Und Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften 9 13-31. 1994.
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The Erosopher: A Philosophical Autobiography (Der Erosoph: Eine philosophische Autobiographie)Königshausen und Neumann. 2019.In this autobiography, Fellmann’s personal experiences obtain in the light of philosophical themes a general significance. His connections to famous authors from the past and present situate his thought in a historical context. The focus of his Philosophy of Life is Eros; the Erosopher is the one who shares his wisdom of living. This book appeals to a broad public interested in the contemporary currents of philosophical reflection.
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In times of social upheaval, self-understanding has become shaky. Against this background, Fellmann asks the anthropological question anew: He does not inquire into human essence, but, in reference to Thomas Nagel’s question, “What is it like to be a bat?”, into subjective experience. The key concept that Fellmann rediscovers and focuses on is “life feelings”. He connects both sides of life experience, the subjective and the objective. In nine concise chapters, life feeling is viewed from divers…Read more
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1The Love-Code is a continuation of The Couple to the family, whose image has changed dramatically. Sexual promiscuity, the social equality of male and female, the individual planning of biographies, all make traditional gender roles appear outdated. Whether these changes will make the living together of the sexes easier is doubtful. This book addresses the question, how can love even in the conditions of neo-liberalism keep its mysterious binding force: through the recognition of sexual identity…Read more
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This work represents the turn in philosophical anthropology to intersubjectivity. In our day, when society threatens to disintegrate into elementary particles, the question becomes acute, What holds individuals together? Fellmann’s answer: the couple as anthropological radical liberates individual humans from isolation. Even outside of marriage and family institutions, erotic love is the communicative medium that cannot be replaced with discourse alone. Thus, the human finds justification throug…Read more
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This work has proved to be the secret classic of pedagogy. Fellmann argues for the transition from the strict Kantian ethics to the utilitarian-based art of living. This is presented in five steps: The class asks the instructor unexpected questions; how the instructor can address the fascination with evil and utility; the desire for morality and the metamorphoses of hedonism; even in morality, nothing is as successful as success; a field trip experiences a shipwreck, the social foundations of mo…Read more
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This book presents philosophy from the perspective of normal life, of persons trying to find their way in the world and happiness.
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Phenomenology as Aesthetic Theory (Phänomenologie als ästhetische Theorie)Alber Verlag. 1989.This book considers the prehistory of Husserl’s doctrine of phenomenological reduction. The focus is on Rudolf Eucken, who was world-renowned in his own time but is now the mostly forgotten late-idealistic philosopher. The prehistory clarifies how Husserl arrived at transcendental idealism in his most famous work, Ideas.
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Lived Philosophy in Germany (Gelebte Philosophie in Deutschland)Alber Verlag. 1983.This book illuminates the state of the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. A comparison of Husserl’s idea of life-world with the “critical theory” of Jürgen Habermas shows that both thinkers are bound to the same idea of integral rationality, which still exists in the German mind today.
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Phenomenology and Expressionism (Phänomenologie und Expressionismus)Alber Verlag. 1982.This work compares Edmund Husserl’s worldview in Ideas to the literary expressionism of that time. The comparison sheds light on the common way of thinking that the concept of reality, in contrast to the concept of rational truth, is in the foreground.
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Scholastic and Cosmological Reform (Scholastik und Kosmologische Reform)Aschendorff. 1971.A historical study of the fourteenth century theologist and philosopher Nicole Oresme, the precursor of Copernicus.
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Was bringt die ›zoologische Wende‹ für die Ethik?Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 39 (3): 303-318. 2014.The ›zoological turn‹ currently proclaimed by animal ethicians suggests a complete reversal of our view on animal life. As welcome as the overcoming of an anthropocentric outlook may be, one cannot ignore the ideological bias of animal ethics. What looks like a modest surrender of our customary arrogance turns out to be a subtle way of reinforcing human supremacy. In order to debunk this kind of self-deception, the article reconstructs how ethics and biology consistently came together in the 19t…Read more
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8Stützung. Stil statt Wahrheit Replik auf eine Notiz von Martin SeelDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54 (4): 657-659. 2006.
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20Das Paar als Quelle des Selbst: Zu den soziobiologischen Grundlagen der philosophischen AnthropologieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (5): 745-756. 2009.This paper is about erotic love as source of the self. Unlike in the Platonic tradition, love is interpreted in the light of human mating systems. Following modern sociobiological theories I reconstruct the pair-bond as the original site in the evolution of man. For the philosophy of mind it follows that the unity of personal consciousness can be explained as a dialectic of emotional nearness to and distance from the beloved other.
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9Die Grenzen des handlungstheoretischen Vokabulars in der EthikDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50 (3). 2002.
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Historisches Bewusstsein in der postmodernen LebensweltIn Historisches Bewusstsein in der postmodernen Lebenswelt, Franz Steiner Verlag. 2015.
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15Historisches Erkennen als Fremderfahrung bei SimmelArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 59 (1): 56-72. 1977.
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767Aspects of Sex Differences: Social Intelligence vs. Creative IntelligenceAdvances in Anthropology 7 298-317. 2017.In this article, we argue that there is an essential difference between social intelligence and creative intelligence, and that they have their foundation in human sexuality. For sex differences, we refer to the vast psychological, neurological, and cognitive science research where problem-solving, verbal skills, logical reasoning, and other topics are dealt with. Intelligence tests suggest that, on average, neither sex has more general intelligence than the other. Though people are equals in ge…Read more
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This book describes the ever-changing history of the concrete application of ethical reflection of individual authors, from Epicurus and Seneca, Montaigne and Gracian, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Erich Fromm and Michel Foucault. Eastern wisdom is also considered. The result is a concept of moral duty pertaining to the philosophy of life, which emerges from the tension between the pursuit of happiness and the human capability for happiness.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Biology |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Biology |