Matthias Wühle's Die Moral der Märkte: Warum Ethik neu gedacht werden muss PDF

By Matthias Wühle

Matthias Wühle hinterfragt die traditionelle Wirtschaftsethik, die Ethik als ein Korrektiv der Wirtschaft behandelt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Problematik von Unternehmen, die ethisch handeln wollen, in der Anwendung einer solchen Ethik aber entweder einen Grundwiderspruch zu den eigenen Geschäftsinteressen sehen oder diese Ethik zu einem advertising- und PR-Instrument instrumentalisieren. Die Ausprägungen dieses Handelns finden sich meist im Umfeld der company Social accountability (CSR) und werden weder ethischen Maßstäben noch Zielen des guten Wirtschaftens gerecht. Die Untersuchung zeigt auf, wie sich dennoch eine auf ökonomischen Prinzipien aufgebaute Ethik formulieren lässt.

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Read e-book online Forme di vita e capitalismo (La critica sociale) (Italian PDF

By Rahel Jaeggi

Come dovremmo vivere? Le odierne società capitalistiche permettono effettivamente alle nostre forme di vita di fiorire?
O invece, esponendole a condizioni di dominazione e sfruttamento, cooperano advert arrestarne e inibirne i processi di sviluppo?
Sono le domande di fondo a cui Rahel Jaeggi cerca di offrire una risposta in questo quantity. Di contro alla neutralità etica liberale, viene rilanciato il tema della «vita offesa» e «alienata», caro alla tradizione della Scuola di Francoforte. Proseguendo e radicalizzando l’operazione critica e diagnostica intrapresa da Axel Honneth, di cui è stata allieva,
Jaeggi insiste con decisione sul versante negativo: cioè sulle crisi e i problemi da cui si deve partire according to sviluppare una critica delle forme di vita che risulti incisiva ed estranea a ogni paternalismo ed essenzialismo.
Una posizione teorica che aggiorna il metodo della critica immanente di matrice hegeliana e, nel contempo, utilizza alcuni strumenti concettuali dell’attuale ontologia sociale according to tentare di scardinare l’idea tradizionale dell’economia come qualcosa a sé stante, interpretando così il capitalismo come una forma di vita tra altre.

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Download e-book for iPad: Zur Stellung von Philosophie und Neurowissenschaften (German by Christian Kellner

By Christian Kellner

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, notice: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit der Frage, ob eine Primärstellung der Neurowissenschaften (bzw. Neurophilosophie) in der Debatte um das psychophysische challenge gerechtfertigt ist, oder ob die Philosophie nicht auch einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Lösung des difficulties liefern kann und soll. Demzufolge muss zuerst geklärt werden was once unter einer reduktionistischen Forschungsstrategie beziehungsweise dem eliminativen Materialismus zu verstehen ist und welche Auswirkungen sie auf die Philosophie des Geistes hat. Des Weiteren werde ich versuchen darzustellen, in wieweit die neurowissenschaftliche Forschung diesen Anspruch erfüllt und used to be Neurophilosophie ist und leisten kann. Abschließend bleibt die Frage zu klären, welche Rolle die Philosophie in der aktuellen Debatte einnehmen kann und sollte.

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Download e-book for iPad: The Heidegger-Buber Controversy: The Status of the I-Thou by Haim Gordon

By Haim Gordon

The I-Thou controversy among those thinkers is an important yet usually neglected factor in philosophy and theology. in a single of the 1st books to really deal with the topic, Haim Gordon explores the arguments of either Martin Heidegger and Martin Buber concerning the The I-Thou dating and its importance for human life. Gordon's paintings illuminates Heidegger's complicated and enlightening ontology--one that describes the typical lifetime of the human in any such method that there's no position for the I-Thou dating. Buber, nonetheless, argues for the importance of the I-Thou courting inside human life, and highlights the ways that Heidegger's philosophy fails to know this significant element. After analyzing the basic ontology of Heidegger, set beside the ontological insights of Buber touching on this dating, Gordon concludes that every of those very important twentieth-century philosophers used to be accountable of ignoring the contributions made by means of the opposite to the research of ontology and being.

By exploring the complex dynamic among Heidegger and Buber, Gordon offers the reader with useful insights and a deeper figuring out of human lifestyles and relationships. the consequences of either this controversy and its solution are a long way attaining for lots of different philosophical disciplines, together with social and political philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics.

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American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner by Frank M. Oppenheim,Rebecca Kneale Gould ,Gertrude Reif PDF

By Frank M. Oppenheim,Rebecca Kneale Gould ,Gertrude Reif Hughes ,Robert McDermott,Douglas Sloan ,David Ray Griffin ,Dan McKanan

Few thinkers from outdoor the us have touched American tradition in as many ways as Rudolf Steiner. Agriculture, schooling, spirituality, and medicine—or extra accurately, replacement practices in those fields—all undergo transparent marks of his effect, for people with eyes to work out. but the very breadth of Steiner's effect has probably made him tougher, now not more straightforward, for observers of yank tradition to note. The phrases Waldorf schooling and biodynamic agriculture are extra widely known than Rudolf Steiner himself or Anthroposophy. Anthroposophic tasks are quite often understood when it comes to parallel projects with assorted non secular roots, instead of in terms of the wealthy textile of Steiner's worldview. american citizens mostly think biodynamic agriculture as a extra excessive kind of organics and Waldorf faculties as 'like Montessori colleges in simple terms extra so.' whilst I describe the Camphill circulate, so much interlocutors reply with 'Is that just like the L'arche movement?' And hundreds of thousands of consumers at wellbeing and fitness nutrition cooperatives and full meals supermarkets buy Weleda epidermis lotion, diaper cream, or homeopathic treatments with little feel of connection to Steiner's imaginative and prescient of spirit energetic on the earth. —Dan McKanan (from the foreword). American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner aspires to elevate Steiner's profile by way of digging into only one box of inquiry: philosophy. prior to he turned recognized to the area as a transmitter of clairvoyant knowledge, Steiner used to be an instructional thinker, editor of the medical writings of Goethe and writer of a foundational paintings in philosophy, The Philosophy of Freedom: the root for a latest Worldview, released in 1894. That ebook expressed in philosophical phrases the various rules that might later grow to be fundamental to the non secular technology of Anthroposophy. notwithstanding the authors hide quite a lot of issues, such a lot percentage an elegiac tone. They see nice power for discussion among Rudolf Steiner and the good American philosophers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. American philosophy can have taken a improper flip within the mid-twentieth century, while pragmatism gave strategy to a convention of analytical philosophy that eschewed metaphysics as inherently meaningless and excited about the coherence or incoherence of linguistic buildings. still, many new websites of power discussion exist among Steiner and American philosophy. 5 of the articles during this quantity have been written as a part of a seminar on Rudolf Steiner and American inspiration as a part of a undertaking for the Renewal of Philosophy, technology, and schooling subsidized by means of Laurance S. Rockefeller. a few of the contributions have been initially released in ReVision: A magazine of cognizance and Transformation (spring and summer time 1991).

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Download e-book for iPad: Foucault: His Thought, His Character by Paul Veyne

By Paul Veyne

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the thinker and the historian. significant figures on this planet of rules, resisting all makes an attempt at categorization. undying thinkers who've lengthy walked and fought jointly. during this brief ebook Paul Veyne bargains a clean portrait of his good friend and relaunches the talk approximately his principles and legacy. ‘Foucault isn't really who you think that he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither at the left nor at the correct and used to be usually disowned through either. He used to be no longer quite a bit a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who by no means ceased in his paintings to mirror on 'truth games', on singular, developed truths that belonged to their very own time.

a special testimony by means of a pupil who knew Foucault good, this publication succeeds brilliantly in greedy the center of his concept and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that experience so usually characterised the translation of Foucault and his work.

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Download e-book for kindle: Aufklärung und Imagination in Frankreich (1675-1810): by Rudolf Behrens,Jörn Steigerwald,Barbara Storck

By Rudolf Behrens,Jörn Steigerwald,Barbara Storck

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Gegenstand des Bandes ist die Geschichte des Imaginationsbegriffes in der französischen Aufklärung.
Der Band rekonstruiert ausgehend von einer synthetisierenden Übersicht in insgesamt 27 Dossiers (Einleitungen und Textausschnitte) die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Imaginationsbegriffs von Malebranches ‚Recherche de los angeles vérité‘ (1674) und seinen frühaufklärerischen Rezeptionen bis hin zu frühromantischen Positionen. Dabei liegt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf der Einbettung des Konzepts in unterschiedliche erkenntnistheoretische Kontexte (Cartesianismus, Sensualismus, Materialismus). Zudem werden verschiedene Wissensfelder und Disziplinen (Erkenntnistheorie, Vermögenslehren, Medizin, Anthropologie, Poetik) insofern berücksichtigt, als sie ihrerseits den Imaginationsbegriff operationalisieren und ihn über sehr unterschiedliche Umwege zu einem zentralen software des modernen Möglichkeitsdenkens machen.
Der Band bietet erstmalig eine zugleich ideen- und kulturgeschichtliche examine der Konzeptualisierung des Begriffs im Verlaufe des französischen 18. Jahrhunderts.

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Download e-book for iPad: Zu Stefan Breuer: Die Gesellschaft des Verschwindens - Von by Heike Obermanns

By Heike Obermanns

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts / Gegenwart, notice: intestine, Hochschule für Philosophie München, Veranstaltung: Jahrtausendwende. Zur Kritik des apokalyptischen Denkens, 6 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In der Einleitung grenzt Breuer sich zunächst scharf gegenüber der Postmoderne ab, um dann seinen gesellschaftstheoretischen Standpunkt ausgehend von der Dialektik Hegels und Marx’ näher auszuführen.
Die durch J.F. Lyotards Buch «Das postmoderne Wissen» initiierte postmoderne Bewegung sieht die moderne Gesellschaft, ebenso wie Breuer, im Zeichen des Verschwindens (S.7), dies aber in einem ganz anderen Sinne. Am Verschwinden ist nach Lyotard die Glaubwürdigkeit der ‹großen Erzählungen›, durch die die neuzeitliche Philosophie, vor allem der deutsche Idealismus und die Aufklärung bis hin zu Marx bis ins 20. Jahrhundert das Welt- und Geistesgeschehen umfassend erklären und prägen wollte. Diese ‹Metaerzählungen› über die Dialektik des Geistes, die Hermeneutik des Sinns und die Emanzipation der Gattung bezeichnet Lyotard als Fabeln, denen heutzutage keine Funktion mehr zukommt. Die Ablehnung der postmodernen Intellektuellen gilt daher aller vereinheitlichenden, universalisierenden und totalisierenden Wissenschaft. Die Entwicklung der Relativitätstheorie und Quantenphysik ist für sie der Beweis, dass der Absolutheitsanspruch der cartesischen mathesis universalis zerbrochen ist, und, so W. Welsch, das Operieren ohne letztes Fundament zur Grundsituation heutiger Wissenschaft wird. Wissenschaft versteht sich demnach insofern als postmodern, als sie sich auf eine bunte Vielfalt von Horizonten, Lebenswelten und Wissensformen stützt und nicht mehr auf die ‹Metaphysik› bzw. auf eine ‹Monokultur›. Wo das Ganze verschwindet, beginnt für die Postmoderne die begrüßenswerte Freisetzung der Teile (S.8).
Hier setzt Breuers Kritik an: Offen bleibt für ihn, welche artwork von Pluralität dem neuzeitlichen Absolutheitsanspruch entgegengesetzt werden soll: eine Pluralität, die noch auf Synthetisierung wartet; eine Vielheit, die wie bei Hegel einer Einheit entsprungen ist und daher auch außerhalb dieser bei sich selbst bleibt; oder etwa eine irreduzible Pluralität, die nicht zu homogenisieren ist.

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This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson by Stanley Cavell PDF

By Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell is a titan of the educational international; his paintings in aesthetics and philosophy has formed either fields within the usa during the last 40 years. during this short but enlightening selection of lectures, Cavell investigates the paintings of 2 of his so much tried-and-true topics: Emerson and Wittgenstein. starting with an introductory essay that locations his personal paintings in a philosophical and ancient context, Cavell courses his reader via his concept approach whilst composing and enhancing his lectures whereas making better claims in regards to the effect of associations on philosophers, and the assumption of development in the self-discipline of philosophy. In “Declining Decline,” Cavell explains how language modifies human lifestyles, having a look particularly on the tradition of Wittgenstein’s writings. He attracts on Emerson, Thoreau, and so forth to make his case that Wittgenstein can certainly be considered as a “philosopher of culture.” In his ultimate lecture, “Finding as Founding,” Cavell writes in line with Emerson’s “Experience,” and explores the stress among the thinker and language—that she or he needs to embody language as his or her “form of life,” whereas even as surpassing its regulations. He compares discovering new rules to gaining knowledge of a formerly unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the ability and pleasure of philosophical thought.   

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Timothy Clark's Martin Heidegger (Routledge Critical Thinkers) PDF

By Timothy Clark

Since the e-book of his large paintings, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger has remained the most influential figures in modern concept, and is a key impression for contemporary literary and cultural conception.

This guidebook offers a fantastic entry-point for readers new to Heidegger, outlining such concerns and ideas as:

  • the limits of 'theory'
  • the historical past of being
  • the beginning of the paintings of art
  • language
  • the literary work
  • poetry and the political
  • Heidegger's involvement with Nazism.

Fully up to date all through and that includes a brand new part on enviromental suggestion and ecocriticism, this guidebook basically and concisely introduces Heidegger's the most important paintings with regards to artwork, language and poetry, and descriptions his carrying on with impression on serious theory.

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