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Was ist eine Demokratie, und wann ist sie liberal? Ist Politik legitim, wenn sie der Volkssouveränität oder wenn sie den Menschenrechten entspricht? Was kann und was sollte man von der Politik erwarten, was ist überhaupt Politik? Ulrich Steinvorth sucht in diesem Buch neue Antworten auf diese in der gegenwärtigen politischen Lage brandaktuellen Fragen. Ausgehend von Aldous Huxleys Fabel »Brave New World«, die eine Gesellschaft beschreibt, in d...

In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-d...

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Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute norm: the norm to be rational and authentic. In his view, their claim is true if it is reinterpreted. The norm is not moral, as it was thought to be, but metaphysical, and authe...

Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute norm: the norm to be rational and authentic. In his view, their claim is true if it is reinterpreted. The norm is not moral, as it was thought to be, but metaphysical, and authe...

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational development of science and production.What is the value secularization propagates? Sifting historical texts, Steinvorth argues the value is authenticity, to...

This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will, and how pride links to technology and rational theology. It refers to the work of Lionel Trilling, Allan Bloom, Charles Taylor and Heidegger on authenticity, Jacob Burckhardt, Stephen Toulmin, Max Weber and Mark Lilla on modernity, Christine Korsgaa...

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational development of science and production.What is the value secularization propagates? Sifting historical texts, Steinvorth argues the value is authenticity, to...

Does the modern age have a specific attitude to the world, a way to make sense of the myriad stimuli that impinge on human organisms or, as I call it, a metaphysics? This book claims it has. It shows that what crucially changed Europe from the 16th century on was the spreading idea that things are best done for their own sake, for goals inherent in an activity, such as the goal of telling a good story or having a lively chat, inheres in the te...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Erster Teil: Was ist die politische Philosophie? -- 1. Die Wiedergeburt der politischen Philosophie -- 2. Zur Begründbarkeit der politischen Philiosophie -- 3. Zur Begründung von Moral und Recht -- 4. Schmitts Zwang -- 5. Alternativen zur politischen Philosophie? -- Zweiter Teil: Fünf Deutungen der gleichen Freiheit -- 1. Rawls' Fairneßgerechtigkeit -- 2. Nozicks natürliche Freiheit -- 3. Steiners Gemeineige...

Was unterscheidet unsere Epoche von früheren? Das mehr oder weniger deutliche Bewußtsein der Fehlbarkeit all unserer inhaltlichen Urteile, unserer empirischen ebenso wie unserer moralischen Aussagen, und der Versuch, der Fehlbarkeit zu entkommen. Dem Bewußtsein unserer unaufhebbaren Fehlbarkeit hat Friedrich Nietzsche in einem Bild der Landlosigkeit und der Verlorenheit auf hoher See und Otto Neurath in einem ähnlichen Bild der Docklosigkeit u...

Nach einem Überblick über die Entwicklung der Freiheitsvorstellungen vom antiken Fatalismus bis zum Freiheitsideal der Renaissance und über die vorneuzeitlichen Leistungen bei der Klärung des Begriffs der Willensfreiheit stellt das Buch die Eigentümlichkeiten der neuzeitlichen Freiheitsbegriffe bei Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, Kant und Hegel dar und schließt mit einem Kapitel über die Freiheitstheorien zeitgenössischer an...

Transforming Capitalism addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. It explores: fair play in the market place, challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels, the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation, the current challenges and transform capitalism.

Transforming Capitalism addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. It explores: fair play in the market place, challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels, the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation, the current challenges and transform capitalism.

This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will, and how pride links to technology and rational theology. It refers to the work of Lionel Trilling, Allan Bloom, Charles Taylor and Heidegger on authenticity, Jacob Burckhardt, Stephen Toulmin, Max Weber and Mark Lilla on modernity, Christine Korsgaa...

Gibt es Bedingungen gerechten Handelns, die die Politik zu beachten hat? Namhafte Philosophen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum begründen in diesem Buch, warum sich politisches Handeln am Maßstab der Gerechtigkeit orientieren muss, und zeigen am Beispiel aktueller politischer Probleme, welchen Beitrag die Philosophie zur Klärung der Prinzipien einer gerechten Politik zu leisten vermag. ik zu leisten vermag.

Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking.

Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking.