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Phronêsis-Prudentia-Klugheit
Klugheit, heute oftmals missverstanden als Cleverness oder Gerissenheit, gehort bis in die Fruhe Neuzeit zu den Schlusselbegriffen der praktischen Philosophie.Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage untersuchen den Begriff der Klugheit in historisch vergleichender Perspektive von seinen Ursprungen in der griechischen Antike uber die islamische Philosophie bis in das lateinische Mittelalter, das eine systematisch komplexe und stark differenzierte Klugheitslehre entwickelt. Ein Ausblick auf fruhneuzeitliche und moderne Entwicklungen beleuchtet das weitere Geschick der Klugheit in der europaischen Tradition und macht dabei auf Kontinuitaten und Neuaufbruche zwischen Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit aufmerksam."
Human Dignity
Connecting three generations of critical theorists, this edited collection focuses on the mutual complementarity between the concept of "human dignity" and the theory and practice of human rights. Human dignity has recently emerged as a controversial theme in the philosophy of human rights and has become the subject of a growing debate involving theological, political, juridical, moral, and biomedical perspectives. Previously, interpretations of this concept took for granted specific definitions of this term without accounting for the perspective offered by a "Critical Theory of Human Rights." This interdisciplinary perspective relies on a tradition that goes from Immanuel Kant to Jürgen Ha...
A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages
The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars.
Transformations of Democracy
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe. Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines the multiple transformations which both the practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political theory to describe current challenges. Exploring a range of violent and non-violent forms of resistance, the book goes on to ask how these are related to the arts, what form of civility they require and whether they undermine the functioning of institutions. In the final section of the book, the contributors examine the normative foundations of democratic practices and institutions, especially with regard to the tension between human rights and democracy and the special character of democratic authority.
Crossing Boundaries at Medieval Universities
This collaborative volume explores how the creation and the crossing of faculty, disciplinary and social boundaries contributed to the development of the medieval European university.
Virtual Walls?
A reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey.
Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play an important role in environmental politics and climate protection. The range of contributors, from well-known academics to activist-scholars, look at climate movements in the developed and developing world, north and south, small and large, central and marginal. The movement is examined as a whole and as single actors, thereby capturing its scope, structure, development, activities and influence....
The science of being as being
Scholars present studies on key philosophical and historical issues in the field. Though varied, the investigations address three major metaphysical themes: the subject matter of metaphysics, metaphysical aporiae, and philosophical theology.
The Role of Business in Global Governance
This book offers a theoretically innovative and empirically rich analysis of the new political role of corporations in the co-performance of governance functions beyond the state. It takes stock of the different types of private contributions to transnational governance as an expression of the new interplay between the state, the business sector and civil society. It provides an understanding, grounded in theory, of the potential and the limits of private self-regulatory arrangements as components of future global governance architecture. It investigates under what conditions which kinds of private contributions to governance beyond the state can be expected; and offers a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness and legitimacy potential of private contributions to global governance. By conceptualizing the role change of business actors as corporate norm-entrepreneurship and employing a comprehensive set of criteria for its evaluation, this book goes much further than other studies in the field.
