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    Existenzphilosophie und Ethik (edited book)
    with Hans Feger and Manuela Hackel
    De Gruyter. 2013.
    The question of whether an ethics can be developed on the basis of existential philosophy has always been controversial. The authors of this volume address the contradiction that existential philosophy is ascribed either a strong connection to ethics or a great distance from it. In this context, the approaches of Søren Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other authors of existential philosophy were examined.
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    Zum Verhältnis von Anerkennung und ethischer Motivation
    In Alfred Betschart, Manuela Hackel, Marie Minot & Vincent Wroblewsky von (eds.), Sartre. Eine permanente Provokation/Une provocation permanente/A Permanent Provocation, Peter Lang. pp. 115-130. 2014.
    What motivates to follow moral rules? In general either internal or external rea- sons make a person follow rules. For moral considerations only internal reasons seem sufficient. Acknowledging a person as a fellow human being is internally motivating and turns out to be the main motivational force.
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    Umriss einer existenzialistischen Ethik
    In Hans Feger & Manuela Hackel (eds.), Existenzphilosophie und Ethik, De Gruyter. pp. 167-190. 2014.
    Existentialism mainly lacks an ethical theory, because it is subject-centered. So for instance the duty to decide and the responsibility for one's decisions are strictly and solely bound to each single subject. There seems to be no (theoretical) connection between the single subjects. Nevertheless there is a common way of acting which follows from the subject‘s reaction to the existential challenges like the own‘s or other‘s death, fear, illness or pain. But it is an insight of the philosophy of…Read more
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    The concepts of explaining and understanding have a special relationship with one another. The former is usually associated with notions such as knowledge and truth, while the latter is linked to meaning and context. The natural sciences are mostly called the explanatory sciences – they use explanations – whereas the humanities, which make particular use of the method of hermeneutics, are considered the understanding sciences. The debate about the mutual relationship between explaining and under…Read more
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    Das Wahre, das Gute, das Schöne: Beiträge zur Philosophie (edited book)
    with Holger Leerhoff
    Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg. 2005.
    Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge zu den drei klassischen Disziplinen der Philosophie – dem Wahren, dem Guten, dem Schönen. Ihre Autoren zeichnet aus, dass sie aus dem akademischen Umfeld Michael Sukales zu seiner Zeit am Institut für Philosophie an der Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg stammen. Ihm ist dieses Buch zum Abschied von seiner aktiven Lehrtätigkeit in Oldenburg gewidmet. Die thematische Vielfalt der enthaltenen Texte spiegelt die Bandbreite seines philosophischen Schaffens wider…Read more
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    Wittgenstein hat – abgesehen von einem einzigen Vortrag – keine gesonderte und zusammenhängende Bearbeitung des Themas Ethik vorgenommen. Gleichwohl sagt er von seinem Tractatus logico-philosophicus, dass dessen Sinn ein ethischer sei. Im Anschluss an diese Behauptung stellt sich einerseits die Frage, welche Vorstellung Wittgenstein von Ethik gehabt, und andererseits, ob sich diese Vorstellung im Laufe der Zeit verändert hat, da sich in den Spätschriften schließlich nur sehr wenige ethische Bem…Read more
  •  1451
    For nothing is concealed! Motion picture, Wittgenstein, and seeing-as
    Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetic 44 (3): 54-61. 2021.
    According to Wittgenstein’s claim that our “seeing a thing as” is strongly dependent on what he calls “world-picture” and vice versa, motion pictures present “surveyable repres- entations” of our world-picture and therefore influence the way we see the world. Insofar as understanding means to see coherences, motion pictures help humans understand world-pictures. But the insights imparted by motion pictures are not of a mere cognitive kind, since motion pictures do not present arguments. By makin…Read more