CarlSchmitt - Briefwechsel mit einem seiner Schüler.CarlSchmitt -2019 - Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.detailsCarlSchmitt (1888–1985), Professor für Staats- und Völkerrecht, bewegt nach wie vor die Gemüter. Die Reaktion auf seine Schriften, Handlungen und Ausstrahlungen ist vielfältig; die Spanne reicht von entrüsteten, für die er der Teufel in Person bleibt, über viele Zwischenstufen bis zu jenen Lesern, die ihn für einen der subtilsten, noch keineswegs ausgeloteten Geistern dieses Jahrhunderts halten. Sein Leben lang war CarlSchmitt ein passionierter Schreiber von Briefen. Meist handelte es sich um handschriftlich verfasste, die für den Schreibenden (...) die Fortsetzung eines konkreten Gespräches mit anderen Mitteln war. Das macht das authentische und die Spontanität derSchmitt-Briefe aus. Als erste Edition einer umfangreichen Korrespondenz wird in dem Buch die Korrespondenz zwischen CarlSchmitt und Armin Mohler veröffentlicht. Der Briefwechsel umfasst die Zeit von 1947 bis 1980 und enthält 280 Briefe und Karten von CarlSchmitt an Armin Mohler. Von dem Briefpartner und Herausgeber wird in der Regel aus den eigenen Briefen nur auszugsweise zitiert, sofern es für das von CarlSchmitt Geschriebene notwendig ist. Armin Mohler (1920 bis 2003), ist einer der bekanntesten rechtskonservativen Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Historiker in Deutschland. Sein Handbuch zur Konservativen Revolution ist ein Standardwerk. In der Zeit des Briefwechsels war Mohler von 1949 bis 1953 Sekretär Ernst Jüngers, danach Korrespondent großer Zeitungen in Paris und von 1964 an Geschäftsführer der Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, in der er sehr beachtete Symposien zu aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Themen organisierte. Der Briefwechsel ist für die Deutung Carl Schmitts in der Nachkriegszeit in seinem Sauerländer "Exil" grundlegend, gleichzeitig enthält er pointierte Schlaglichter auf das politische und kulturelle Geschehen der frühen und mittleren Bundesrepublik sowie auf Werk und Leben von Ernst Jünger. (shrink)
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Realismus und Wissenschaft: der empirische Erfolg der Wissenschaft zwischen metaphysischer Erklärung und methodologischer Beurteilung.Fynn Ole Engler -2008 - Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.detailsEnglish summary:Fynn Ole Engler investigates the two main positions in the modern philosophy of science from an historical and a systematic point of view, thereby separating the realistic and the naturalistic program from each other.
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CarlSchmitt's early legal-theoretical writings: Statute and judgment and the Value of the state and the significance of the individual.CarlSchmitt -2021 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Lars Vinx, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin & Carl Schmitt.detailsCarlSchmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law 1. The famous pithy aphorisms that CarlSchmitt used to open his major works - 'the sovereign is he who decides on the exception', 'the concept of the state presupposes the concept of the political', etc. - have become a part of the common discourse of contemporary scholarship on politics and the law. The theoretical framework that animates these slogans, however, has remained somewhat opaque. It has often been (...) argued that there is no such framework, thatSchmitt was a situational thinker whose works are best understood as interventions in concrete political debates that do not add up to a grand theoretical vision. (shrink)
Stability and Justification in Hume’s Treatise, Another Look- A Response to Erin Kelly, FrederickSchmitt, and Michael Williams.Frederick F.Schmitt -2004 -Hume Studies 30 (2):339-404.detailsIn Stability and Justification in Hume’s Treatise, Louis Loeb ascribes to Hume a naturalistic account of justified belief, one on which Hume is fundamentally concerned with the question whether stable belief can be achieved. Loeb’s interpretation is systematic, richly explanatory, and powerfully argued. He makes a compelling case that stability plays a central role in Hume’s epistemology. Loeb’s case is so compelling indeed that anyone who wants to defend an alternative interpretation will now have to assimilate or deflect the massive (...) textual evidence in favor of the stability interpretation. I will argue here that, for some passages Loeb cites in favor of the stability interpretation, a veritistic interpretation explains the text at least as well as the stability interpretation does. (shrink)
(1 other version)Interrogation of CarlSchmitt by Robert Kempner (I).CarlSchmitt -1987 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1987 (72):97-129.detailsKempner. You do not have to testify, ProfessorSchmitt, if you do not want to, and if you think you are incriminating yourself. But if you do testify, then I would be grateful if you would be absolutely truthful, would neither conceal nor add anything. Is that your wish?Schmitt: Yes, of course. Kempner: And if I come to something you might find self-incriminating, you can simply say you prefer to remain silent.Schmitt: I have already been (...) interrogated by the C.I.C. and in the camp. I would be glad to tell you all I know. However, I would like to know what I am being blamed with. (shrink)
The guardian of the constitution: Hans Kelsen and CarlSchmitt on the limits of constitutional law.Hans Kelsen,CarlSchmitt &Lars Vinx (eds.) -2015 - United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.detailsThis volume provides the first English translation of Hans Kelsen's and CarlSchmitt's influential Weimar-era debate on constitutional guardianship and the legitimacy of constitutional review. It includes Kelsen's seminal piece, 'The Nature and Development of Constitutional Adjudication', as well as key extracts from the 'Guardian of the Constitution' which presentSchmitt's argument against constitutional review. Also included are Kelsen's review ofSchmitt's 'Guardian of the Constitution', as well as some further material by Kelsen andSchmitt on (...) presidential dictatorship under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These texts show Kelsen andSchmitt responding to one another, in the context of a debate focused on a concrete constitutional crisis, thus allowing the reader to assess the plausibility of Kelsen's andSchmitt's legal and constitutional theories. (shrink)
Thing causation.Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt -2024 -Noûs 58 (4):1050-1072.detailsAccording to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something. Event causation is reducible to thing causation, but thing causation is not reducible to event causation, because event causation cannot accommodate cases of fine‐grained causation. I defend my view from objections, including C. D. Broad's influential “timing” argument, and I (...) conclude with implications for agent‐causal theories of free will. (shrink)
Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge.Frederick F.Schmitt (ed.) -1994 - Rowman & Littlefield.detailsSocializing Epistemology: An Introduction through Two Sample Issues Frederick F.Schmitt Social epistemology is the conceptual and normative study of the ...
The Concept of the Political.CarlSchmitt -1996 - University of Chicago Press.detailsIn this work, legal theorist and political philosopher CarlSchmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state.
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.CarlSchmitt &Tracy B. Strong -1985 - University of Chicago Press.detailsWritten in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made CarlSchmitt one of the most significant and controversial ...
Contingent Grounding.Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt -2021 -Synthese 199 (1-2):4561-4580.detailsA popular principle about grounding, “Internality”, says that if A grounds B, then necessarily, if A and B obtain, then A grounds B. I argue that Internality is false. Its falsity reveals a distinctive, new kind of explanation, which I call “ennobling”. Its falsity also entails that every previously proposed theory of what grounds grounding facts is false. I construct a new theory of what grounds grounding: the ennobling theory.
The Leviathan in the state theory of Thomas Hobbes: meaning and failure of a political symbol.CarlSchmitt -1996 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by George Schwab.detailsOne of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, CarlSchmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both Nazi sympathizer and modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher’s enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood. A work that predicted the demise of the Third Reich and that still holds relevance in today’s security-obsessed society, this volume (...) will be essential reading for students and scholars of political science. “CarlSchmitt is surely the most controversial German political and legal philosopher of this century. . . . We deal withSchmitt, against all odds, because history stubbornly persists in proving many of his tenets right.”— Perspectives on Political Science “[A] significant contribution. . . . The relation between Hobbes andSchmitt is one of the most important questions surroundingSchmitt: it includes a distinct, though occasionally vacillating, personal identification as well as an association of ideas.”— Telos. (shrink)
Supererogation and the Limits of Reasons.Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt &Daniel Munoz -2023 - In David Heyd,Handbook of Supererogation. Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 165-180.detailsWe argue that supererogation cannot be understood just in terms of reasons for action. In addition to reasons, a theory of supererogation must include prerogatives, which can make an action permissible without counting in favor of doing it.
Who Cares About Winning?Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt -2023 -European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1):248-265.detailsWhy do we so often care about the outcomes of games when nothing is at stake? There is a paradox here, much like the paradox of fiction, which concerns why we care about the fates and threats of merely fictional beings. I argue that the paradox threatens to overturn a great deal of what philosophers have thought about caring, severing its connection to value and undermining its moral weight. I defend a solution to the paradox that draws on Kendall Walton's (...) solution to the paradox of fiction, developing his idea that it be extended to games. The solution takes games to involve make‐believe: in particular, players and spectators make‐believe that the outcome of the game matters. I also explore how the phenomenon extends beyond games. And I explore some moral implications: in particular, my view preserves the idea that we have reason not to impede others in their pursuit of what they care about. (shrink)
Aristotle and the Renaissance.Charles B.Schmitt -1983 - Cambridge: Published for Oberlin College by Harvard University Press.detailsThis cogent essay explores a hitherto unstudied aspect of Renaissance intellectual history and refines our understanding of the impact of Greek philosophy on Western thought. It is generally recognized that Aristotle was a touchstone for the learned world in the Middle Ages. CharlesSchmitt shows here that what happened in the following centuries was not a mere continuation of the medieval tradition but a vital new development, influenced by the ideas of this era of ferment. He samples the response (...) to Aristotle during the Renaissance, viewing the writings of Catholics and Protestants, humanists, scholastics, and scientists; he surveys the different kinds of works from which Renaissance readers learned their Aristotle; and he looks at the extent to which Aristotelians assimilated other modes of thought in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries.Schmitt's analysis offers intellectual historians a corrected picture of this important period. (shrink)
Die unbedingte Forderung: eine philosophisch -anthropologische Rekonstruktion sittlicher Imperative / GregorSchmitt.GregorSchmitt -2020 - München: Verlag Karl Alber.detailsWie ist es philosophisch zu erklären, dass Menschen frei und selbstbestimmt Entscheidungen treffen, die durch das klassische Begründungsmuster der Eigennützlichkeit und Selbsterhaltung unverständlich bleiben? Der Autor rekonstruiert und erweitert mit seiner neuartigen Konzeption - der autoeidetischen Struktur - Möglichkeitsbedingungen der praktischen Vernunft. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die eigene Existenz. Das Streben nach Selbsttreue bedingt das Wollen des Gesollten. Urteil und Praxis werden hierdurch nachvollziehbar zu Bedingungen gelingenden Lebens."--Publisher's website.
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Glossary. Book 1.CarlSchmitt,Yuri Korinets &Alexander Filippov -2010 -Russian Sociological Review 9 (1):75-78.detailsGlossary occupies a specific place among diary notes of Carl Schnitt. Notes made in 1947-1961 are considered by publishers substantially valuable. In 1952-1958 records have become poor and the majority of them are composed from the press cutting with illegible stenographic commentaries. In 1991 Eberhard Freiherr von Medem published Glossary, that is the most interesting and valuable part was published in Duncker & Humblot. The book drew a wide response and became irreplaceable origin for all who are interested in (...) class='Hi'>Schmitt. Starting with this issue we are going to publish selections ofSchmitt’s records of various volumes which do not always fit together. In our opinion they are both of historical and theoretical interest. (shrink)
Truth: A Primer.Frederick F.Schmitt -1995 - Westview Press.detailsThe concept of truth lies at the heart of philosophy; whether one approaches it from epistemology or metaphysics, from the philosophy of language or the philosophy of science or religion, one must come to terms with the nature of truth.In this brisk introduction, FrederickSchmitt covers all the most important historical and contemporary theories of truth. Along the way he also sheds considerable light on such closely related issues as realism and idealism, absolutism and relativism, and the nature of (...) contemporary pragmatism.At a time when it is fashionable for scholars outside of philosophy to deny the possibility of truth,Schmitt’s lucid, technically accurate survey offers the easiest way to understand what is really at stake in such denials. Truth: A Primer is a quick but accurate and philosophically sophisticated overview that will prove invaluable to philosophers and their students in a wide range of courses, in particular epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. (shrink)
Justification, sociality, and autonomy.Frederick F.Schmitt -1987 -Synthese 73 (1):43 - 85.detailsTheories of epistemically justified belief have long assumed individualism. In its extreme, or Lockean, form individualism rules out justified belief on testimony by insisting that a subject is justified in believing a proposition only if he or she possesses first-hand justification for it. The skeptical consequences of extreme individualism have led many to adopt a milder version, attributable to Hume, on which a subject is justified in believing a proposition only if he or she is justified in believing that there (...) is testimony in favor of the proposition deriving from a reliable source. I argue that this Humean individualism also leads to skepticism in a wide range of cases; it makes it impossible for a layperson to be justified on expert testimony. In addition, I argue that the apparent motivation for the Humean view, an insistence on intellectual autonomy in justification, does not succeed in motivating it. I then explore the contours of a collectivist view of justification on testimony, with special attention to the place of a subject's intellectual autonomy in such justification. I try to bring empirical results of the psychology of persuasion to bear on the epistemological issues. (shrink)
Husserl's transcendental-phenomenological reduction.RichardSchmitt -1959 -Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 20 (2):238-245.detailsThe transcendental phenomenological reduction is described as the transition from thinking to reflection, Which involves a change of attitude.Schmitt elaborates what it means to "bracket the objective world" and to suspend judgement. The traditional distinction between thinking and reflection, Based on the distinction between what is inside and what is outside the mind, Is shown to be inadequate. Reflection really involves critical detachment, A neutral attitude and disinterestedness; it must describe the new facts rather than explain them. Hence, (...) The reduction is the transition from a nonreflective to a reflective attitude. (staff). (shrink)