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118So ist esZeitschrift für Ästhetik Und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 68 (2): 30-39. 2023.Martin Seel wonders how it is possible to liberate oneself from wanting to be right. In the following, we will ask whether the idea of a wanting to be right is so much as intelligible. For if one thinks about thinking and asks what it means to think something, then the idea of wanting to be right seems to have no place. Both the possibility and the necessity of a liberation from wanting to be right seem to dissolve. And yet, we will show, there is wanting-to-be-right. But we do not understand th…Read more
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22Eliminating ExternalityIn Jürgen Stolzenberg & Karl P. Ameriks (eds.), 2007: Metaphysik / Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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84Acting from knowledgeEuropean Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This essay explores the idea of acting from knowledge. This idea is a thought of ourselves: the distinctive way in which we act, in which we live, resides in this, that our actions, our life, may rest on knowledge. Yet the idea of action resting on knowledge is puzzling, even mysterious. The difficulty springs from the character of judgment that is knowledge: its objectivity. The objectivity of a judgment is a character of its validity: it is objectively valid. Yet it is equally, and therefore, …Read more
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114Das LebenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (4): 469-489. 2023.Life and “good” are interchangeable, I think. Life is good, goodness life. Michael Thompson has recovered the understanding of life as goodness for contemporary philosophy. However, he errs in thinking that our life, human life, is a certain kind of life. And so he errs in conceiving the idea of the good by which we live as that of a certain kind of life. The idea of the good by which we live is not an idea, but the idea. This shows that our life is not a life, but the life. This essay develops …Read more
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10Praktisches Wissen um die menschliche Lebensform: ein Widerspruch?In Thomas Hoffmann & Michael Reuter (eds.), Natürlich gut: Aufsätze zur Philosophie von Philippa Foot, De Gruyter. pp. 207-222. 2010.
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8Handeln als innerer Zweck des HandelnsIn Sebastian Rödl & Henning Tegtmeyer (eds.), Sinnkritisches Philosophieren, De Gruyter. pp. 83-100. 2012.
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20Sinnkritisches Philosophieren (edited book)De Gruyter. 2012.Sowohl in der analytischen Philosophie als auch im verwandten Projekt einer erneuerten Praxisphilosophie gewinnt sinnkritisches Philosophieren derzeit eine neue Dringlichkeit. Beide begreifen die menschliche, vernünftige Praxis als primäre Quelle von Sinn und als privilegierten Gegenstand philosophischer Analyse. Der Band vereint Beiträge zu zentralen Aspekten sinnkritischer, praxisformanalytischer Philosophie: von der Frage nach dem Sinn religiöser Rede und Praxis über das Problem der Struktur …Read more
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157Philosophy and Its HistoryIn Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.), Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 193-208. 2023.
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15Vernunft und Registratur. Zu Markus Gabriels »Neutralem Realismus«Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122 (1): 173-176. 2015.
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33Der Leib und das RechtIn Michael Frey, Florian Priesemuth & Berger Christian (eds.), Rechte des Körpers: Juristische, Philosophische Und Theologische Perspektiven, De Gruyter. pp. 23-44. 2022.
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1047. Perceiving the WorldIn Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 193-216. 2022.
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162Freedom as rightEuropean Journal of Philosophy 29 (3): 624-633. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 624-633, September 2021.
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128Metaphysics, Thinking, and BeingIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 17-34. 2020.
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137Teaching, Freedom and the Human IndividualJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2): 290-304. 2020.The essay represents teaching as the coming to be of the human individual. In order to do so, it reflects on the character of human life by which it is knowledge of itself. Being knowledge of itself, human life is self-determining or free. Therefore generality and particularity come together in the human being in a distinctive way: a human being is not an exemplar, instance or specimen of a species, nature or life-form. Rather, she is her own principle. This is captured in the idea of the human …Read more
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236The force and the content of judgmentEuropean Journal of Philosophy 28 (2): 506-517. 2020.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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1Die innere Negativität des DenkensIn Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg, Juliane Rebentisch, Dirk Setton & Francesca Raimondi (eds.), Negativität: Kunst - Recht - Politik, Suhrkamp. pp. 401-423. 2018.
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66Das metaphysische UnternehmenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (1): 98-117. 2019.In Barry Stroud’s book Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction, the eponymous dissatisfaction is said to be due to our inability to obtain certainty about the correspondence between the world and our ways of thinking it. In Stroud’s terms, this dissatisfaction is caused by the failure of the metaphysical enterprise. Beginning with Aristotle’s metaphysics, this paper discusses Stroud’s misunderstanding which stems from his particular construal of the object of metaphysics: There is no metaphy…Read more
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251Logic, Being and NothingHegel Bulletin 40 (1): 92-120. 2019.The first part of this essay develops the idea of logic as the science of thought, articulating, and thus being, the self-consciousness of thought. It explains that logic, so understood, is nothing other than metaphysics, the science of what is in so far as it is. Self-consciousness, then, thought itself, is not empty, but the source of all content. The second part of the essay discusses the opening paragraphs of Hegel’sScience of Logic; it shows how, in these paragraphs, thought is revealed to …Read more
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194Good, Evil, and the Necessity of an ActEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (1): 91-102. 2018.Kant asserts that the formula of the schools “nihil appetimus, nisi sub ratione boni” is undoubtedly certain when clearly expressed. Conversely, doubt reflects a failure clearly to express it. Once we comprehend the concepts of the formula, of the good and of desire, there is no doubting it. In recent times, the formula has fallen into doubt. If Kant is right, then this shows a lack of clarity with respect to the concepts the formula conjoins. I want to suggest that Kant is right: the formula of…Read more
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163XI—Self-Consciousness, Negation, and DisagreementProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (3): 215-230. 2017.
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93The Science of Logic as the Self-Constitution of the Power of KnowledgeIn Anders Moe Rasmussen & Markus Gabriel (eds.), German Idealism Today, De Gruyter. pp. 151-158. 2017.
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59Comments on GuyerInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (5): 489-496. 2007.Before and in the Groundwork, Kant argues as follows for the validity of the moral law: we want to be free. Following the moral law is the only way to be free. So we should follow the moral law.1The first premise of this syllogism is treated differently before and in the Groundwork. First Kant thought it an empirical fact that men want to be free and want it more than anything else.2 Later he sought an a priori argument showing that we ought to want to be free and are right in thinking it good.3…Read more
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