Democracy and the politics of the extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt.Andreas Kalyvas -2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.detailsAlthough the modern age is often described as the age of democratic revolutions, the subject of popular foundings has not captured the imagination of contemporary political thought. Most of the time, democratic theory and political science treat as the object of their inquiry normal politics, institutionalized power, and consolidated democracies. The aim of Andreas Kalyvas' study is to show why it is important for democratic theory to rethink the question of its beginnings. Is there a founding unique to democracies? Can (...) a democracy be democratically established? What are the implications of expanding democratic politics in light of the question of whether and how to address democracy's beginnings? Kalyvas addresses these questions and scrutinizes the possibility of democratic beginnings in terms of the category of the extraordinary, as he reconstructs it from the writings of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt and their views on the creation of new political, symbolic, and constitutional orders. (shrink)
Globalisierung und nationale Wirtschaftsmodelle: kann das »deutsche Modell« überleben?Andreas Busch -2006 -Zeitschrift Für Evangelische Ethik 50 (1):249-264.detailsGlobalisation is often argued to erode differences between national varieties of capitalism and enforce convergence. This article takes up the debate - triggered by declining economic performance - about the viability of the » German model « of a co-ordinated market economy, systematising and summarizing the arguments about its alleged seminal transformation over the last decade. It goes on to identify a number of flaws in the respective literatme and questions whether the case for fundamental change taking place in Germany (...) has really been made in a Iasting and convincing way. In addition it points to significant elements of continuity in areas such as industrial relations and emphasizes the importance of political decisions in determining the fate of national economic models. (shrink)
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Wissenschaft.Andreas Bartels -2021 - Boston: De Gruyter.detailsScience is the systematic form of man's search for knowledge. It aims to explain observed facts and to discover new facts. Theories and models are a means of accomplishing this aim. The book draws on examples from a range of natural sciences and humanities to illustrate how theoretical assumptions and notions facilitate explanations and discoveries, thus demonstrating the difference between science and everyday knowledge.
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Verwandlung: mythologische Ansichten, technologische Absichten.Andreas Dorschel -2009 - Göttingen: V&R Unipress.detailsDie Alchimie setzte Menschen statt Gotter zu Herren der Verwandlung ein. Zuletzt sind auch Wissenschaft und Technologie auf sie gestossen. Was geschieht mit Verwandlung in diesem neuen, entzaubernden Zugriff?
Between academic standards and wild innovation: assessing big data and artificial intelligence projects in research ethics committees.Andreas Brenneis,Petra Gehring &Annegret Lamadé -2024 -Ethik in der Medizin 36 (4):473-491.detailsDefinition of the problem In medicine, as well as in other disciplines, computer science expertise is becoming increasingly important. This requires a culture of interdisciplinary assessment, for which medical ethics committees are not well prepared. The use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) methods (whether developed in-house or in the form of “tools”) pose further challenges for research ethics reviews. Arguments This paper describes the problems and suggests solving them through procedural changes. Conclusion An assessment that is interdisciplinary from (...) the outset appears to be more suitable than having two commissions with different expertise. However, this would require that the composition of medical ethics committees be altered. In addition, the article recommends initial measures to be taken during research ethics reviews of big data and AI projects in order to consolidate the review process and ensure standardization of the criteria. (shrink)
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John Marincola (Hg.), Greek and Roman Historiography.Andreas Mehl -2014 -Klio 96 (1):231-233.detailsName der Zeitschrift: Klio Jahrgang: 96 Heft: 1 Seiten: 231-233.
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Sozial-epidemiologische und ethische Ansätze zur Bewertung der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit.Andreas Mielck -2010 -Ethik in der Medizin 22 (3):235-248.detailsZusammenfassungEin niedriger sozialer Status ist oft mit erhöhter Morbidität und Mortalität verbunden. In dem Beitrag wird versucht, diese „gesundheitliche Ungleichheit“ aus sozial-epidemiologischer Sicht zu bewerten. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage nach der Verantwortung für die erhöhte gesundheitliche Gefährdung der unteren Statusgruppen. Nur ein kleiner Teil der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit kann durch das Gesundheitsverhalten erklärt werden. Umso wichtiger sind andere Ursachen. Dazu gehören die sozialen Unterschiede bei den Belastungen in der Wohnumgebung, bei den Arbeitsbedingungen und auch beim Zugang zur gesundheitlichen Versorgung. (...) Diese sozial-epidemiologischen Ergebnisse lassen sich gut in die gesundheitsethische Diskussion integrieren. Die Frage, wer für welchen Teil der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit verantwortlich ist, löst oft heftige Kontroversen aus. Sie sind nur dann zu lösen, wenn die sozial-epidemiologische und die gesundheitsethische Diskussion besser miteinander vernetzt werden. (shrink)
Exploring European Education Policy through the Lens of Dewey’s Democracy and Education.Andreas Nordin &Ninni Wahlström -2016 -European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (1).detailsIn this article, we use the basic concepts of Dewey’s pedagogical philosophy on democracy and education as analytical tools for exploring the democratic potential of a transnational education policy within the contemporary European risk discourse. A Deweyan reading of main policy documents, starting with the 2000 Lisbon Strategy, allows for critical discussion of some of the basic assumptions and consequences of the EU-advocated transnational education policy. The data sources include 28 EU policy documents from 2000 to 2014. The analysis shows (...) that in addition to a prevailing “human capital” discourse, there is potential for a communicative “democratic discourse” that promotes social cohesion. The democratic discourse underlines the full and free communication between different groups as the only way to promote and ensure the conditions for social cohesion. In this crisis of nearby wars, terror attacks and refugees in Europe, economy and competition are not viable concepts for seeking solutions. We argue that a shift to a language adapted to the real crisis and the fear of future crises in Europe is needed. We argue that a language that understands social efficiency, communication and a moral interest in the way Dewey outlined the concepts in Democracy and Education corresponds to the strong need to maintain and strengthen a democratic education and a democratic way of living for all. (shrink)
The Future is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part Two.Andreas Malm -2023 -Historical Materialism 31 (1):3-61.detailsAs capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures immediately. It would alleviate the symptoms of the crisis, not its causes. But might it be combined with radical emissions cuts? This essay, the final instalment of two, subjects geoengineering to a materialist psychoanalysis and argues that it represents a fantasy of repression, setting itself up for a dreadful return of the repressed.
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Is There a Methodological Divide between Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music? Response to Roholt.Andreas Vrahimis -2018 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (1):108-111.detailsRoholt’s discussion of the methodological divide between analytic and continental philosophy of music is undertaken with the hope of bringing about the divide’s dissolution. Roholt limits the scope of the discussion to methodological debates in the philosophy of music, without referring to the ongoing debate about the divide at large. This begs the question of how methodological differences in the philosophy of music correlate with differences between analytic and continental philosophy. Upon closer inspection, there is nothing that is essentially analytic (...) or continental about the opposed methodological preferences discussed by Roholt. This acknowledgement is in part what Roholt aimed at: it erects no strict communicative barrier between two methodologically opposed sides. There is however, as I point out, a further unresolved problem with Roholt’s talk of ‘tendencies’ (or the parallel metaphilosophical employment of family resemblances to understand the divide), which if unresolved may allow for a regression to stereotypical conceptions of the divide. (shrink)
Flucht und Migration.Andreas Cassee &Anna Goppel -2011 - In Ralf Stoecker, Christian Neuhäuser & Marie-Luise Raters,Handbuch Angewandte Ethik. Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler. pp. 621-627.detailsDieses Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über philosophische Debatten zum Umgang mit menschlicher Mobilität über nationalstaatliche Grenzen. Dabei wird zum einen auf die Diskussion über ein staatliches Recht auf Ausschluss bzw. ein individuelles Recht auf Einwanderung eingegangen, zum anderen wird die Frage beleuchtet, wer aufgrund einer besonderen Bedrohungslage im Herkunftsland einen Anspruch auf Aufnahme hat und wie Pflichten zur Aufnahme von Geflüchteten unter den Staaten zu verteilen sind.
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Zu jambischen Versen an einer Mauer in Konstantinopel.Andreas Rhoby -2003 -Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2):685-687.detailsTheodosios Zygomalas, berühmter Protonotar der Großen Kirche in Konstantinopel, erwähnt in einem Brief vom 7. April 1581 an den deutschen Gelehrten und Philhellenen Martin Crusius jambische Verse über Athen, die er an einer Mauer gelesen hat.
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Thinking with animals.Andreas Roepstorff -2001 -Sign Systems Studies 29 (1):203-217.detailsA central claim of biosemiotics is the ascription of semiotic competence to nonhumans. For strange historical reasons, this claim has been quite controversial in much of standard biological discourse. An analysis of ethnographic material from Greenland demonstrates that people regard animals as nonhuman "persons". i.e., as sensing and thinking beings. Like humans. animals are supposed to have knowledge about their environment. Taking this semiotic competence as a fact beyond any doubt enables skilled hunters and fishermen to rely not only on (...) their own interpretation of the environment. but also on the animals' interpretation of their environment The behaviour of fish, seals, and land animals, meditated by their acknowledged semiotic competence, can thus be interpreted as giving signs about the behaviour, e.g., of whales and icebergs. This a priori ascription of semiotic competence is also apparent in discussions about management and regulation of animals. Rather than discussing whether "the stock" is depleted, much of the discourse among fishermen and hunters focuses on whether animals can be semiotically disturbed by what people are doing. (shrink)