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57 Vertrag und Vertrauen: Lockes Legitimation von Herrschaft (Kap. 7 + 8)In Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 95-114. 2012.
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21 „The A. B. C. of Politicks”: Entstehungskontext und Rezeption von Lockes Zwei Abhandlungen über die RegierungIn Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2012.
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711 „Ein rein bürgerliches Glaubensbekenntnis”: Zivilreligion als Vollendung des Politischen? (IV 8)In Reinhard Brandt & Karlfriedrich Herb (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts, Akademie Verlag. pp. 215-241. 2000.
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42John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“ (edited book)Akademie Verlag. 2012.Even his peers called Locke's political philosophy “The ABC of Politics“: not only does he clarify why one should exit the state of nature (government guarantees protection of life, freedom, and wealth) but also what a good government has to provide. A government should protect individuals from assaults of fellow citizens, other countries, and itself. Locke also shows how to put limits to the power of political institutions: by division of powers, by law, by neutral judges, and by making people…Read more
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11093. Aufklärung über Fortschritt: Die systematischen Ursachen der Zivilisation: 3 Erster Diskurs, zweiter TeilIn Lieselotte Steinbrügge & Johannes Rohbeck (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Die Beiden Diskurse Zur Zivilisationskritik, De Gruyter. pp. 47-62. 2015.
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22Cement of society? Why civil religion is unfit to create social bondsIn Dieter Thomä, Christoph Henning & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), Social Capital, Social Identities: From Ownership to Belonging, De Gruyter. pp. 123-134. 2014.
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Keine Politik ohne Moral, keine Moral ohne Religion?In Mathias Hildebrandt & Manfred Brocker (eds.), Der Begriff der Religion: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Vs Verlag. pp. 59-80. 2008.The paper offers a systematic analysis of the phenomenon of civil religion. It reconstructs its historical preconditions and explains that civil religion is advocated when a pluralist society seems about to lose a traditional religion or ideology perceived as former guarantor of social stability. Civil religion is then propagated as a means to create a new equilibrium. The text aims to clarify that this notion is based on the idea that morality depends on religion. The conclusion is that the mor…Read more
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500Aufklärung über Fortschritt: Warum Rousseau kein “Zurück zur Natur” propagiertIn Pascal Delhom & Alfred Hirsch (eds.), Rousseaus Ursprungserzählungen, Fink. pp. 49-66. 2012.The claim of this paper is to show that the “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences” does not propose a general critique of progress as such, but a critique of the idea of progress as promoted by the 18th century “philosophers”. It is argued that Rousseau is no proponent of a Counter-Enlightenment, on the contrary he aims to go further than other thinkers of his time by scrutinizing even progress itself, Enlightenment’s pet notion. In defining arts and sciences as the very driving forces of progress…Read more
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1847„The A. B. C. of Politicks“: Entstehungskontext und Rezeption von Lockes Zwei Abhandlungen über die RegierungIn Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 1-16. 2012.The paper is devoted to demonstrating the systematic value of the “Two Treatises of Government”. Even though their genesis is rooted in the political circumstances of Locke’s life-time, the “Treatises” are not simply a pamphlet designed to support the Whig cause, as Locke’s political ideas are derived from his theoretical philosophy and from his concept of natural law.
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822„Ein rein bürgerliches Glaubensbekenntnis“: Zivilreligion als Vollendung des Politischen?In Reinhard Brandt & Karlfriedrich Herb (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechts, Akademie Verlag. pp. 213-240. 2000.The author offers a critical commentary on Rousseau’s chapter on civil religion in the “Social Contract”, book 4, chapter 8. It investigates Rousseau’s attempt to overcome the conflict between politics and religion by merging a civil religion that creates an emotional bond to the particular state without fostering superstition and intolerance, and it shows that this attempt fails. It is demonstrated that Rousseau’s concept of civil religion neither offers any doctrine of salvation transcending t…Read more
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706Obligation in Rousseau: making natural law history?Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik/Annual Review of Law and Ethics 20 139-154. 2012.Is Rousseau an advocate of natural law or not? The purpose of Rehm’s paper is to suggest a positive answer to this controversially discussed question. On the one hand, Rousseau presents a critical history of traditional natural law theory which in his view is based on flawed suppositions: not upon natural, but on artificial qualities of man, and even rationality and sociability are counted among the latter. On the other hand he presents the self-confident manifesto for a fresh start in natural …Read more
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5What holds a society together? Is it sufficient if a state relies on the citizens’ law-abidance only? Rousseau mistrusts a purely legal foundation of the state and searches for a bond that ties the citizens to it emotionally. The author aims to show that the civil religion Rousseau presents in the “Social Contract” is his answer to that problem. She focuses on the artificiality of civil religion which for Rousseau needs to be the product of the citizens’ will, inseparable from society’s rational…Read more
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2389Vertrag und Vertrauen: Lockes Legitimation von HerrschaftIn Michaela Rehm & Bernd Ludwig (eds.), John Locke, „Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung“, Akademie Verlag. pp. 95-114. 2012.The paper discusses the foundation and genesis of the political society according to Locke, elaborating why the relationship between the civil society and the government is not defined in contractual terms, but by the notion of “trust”. Rehm argues against the view that Locke supports a liberal proceduralism, stressing that consent for him is indeed the necessary, but not the sufficient condition of legitimate political power: what needs to be added is action in accordance with the law of nature…Read more
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2010„Ihr seid verloren, wenn ihr vergeßt, daß die Früchte allen gehören und die Erde niemandem“: Rousseaus Eigentumskonzeption,In Bernd Ludwig & Andreas Eckl (eds.), Was ist Eigentum? Philosophische Eigentumstheorien von Platon bis Habermas, C. H. Beck Verlag. pp. 103-117. 2005.The paper is an analysis of Rousseau’s concept of property. It shows that Rousseau wants to draft a new system of politics that will not forbid private property but will limit its scale. It aims to clarify that Rousseau owes much to John Locke’s theory and even adopts Locke’s definition that it is a basic purpose of the social contract to protect the citizen’s property. It is argued that in spite of these similarities Rousseau’s account differs fundamentally from Locke’s. Having a right of owner…Read more
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369Rousseau médiateur: la religion et les LumièresÉtudes Rousseau 17 151-165. 2009.It appears that Rousseau has annulled the dichotomy between man and citizen for the benefit of the citizen – after all, the social contract implies the “total alienation of each associate, together with all his rights, to the whole community”. Does this not mean the individual is completely absorbed by the collectivity? The paper takes up the role of religion for politics in Rousseau’s work to show that even civil religion cannot help to re-establish the lost unity between man and citizen, on th…Read more
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805Begründung statt Begrenzung absolutistischer Macht: Thomas Hobbes’ Abkehr vom dualistischen VertragsmodellIn Dietmar Herz (ed.), Von himmlischer Ordnung und weltlichen Problemen. Festschrift für Peter J. Opitz, Fink. pp. 117-132. 2003.The purpose of this article is to explore Thomas Hobbes’ renunciation of a prominent concept of the social contract that distinguishes between two different contracts, namely, “pactum associationis” and “pactum subiectionis”.
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 2003