Philosophy
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Talking Philosophy – Reflecting on Reflecting
Talking about philosophy can be a wonderful experience. But: it does matter with whom. The joy of doing it with friends, who are right there beside you, struggling to get a grip on topics that go beyond them. Struggling, but not thinking they are in anyway inferior because they have not written the thought first,…
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To Think…
To think is to question everything, including thought, and question, and the process. To question requires that something happens that reason has not yet known. Non-Western traditions of thought have a quite different attitude. What counts in their manner of questioning is not at all to determine the reply as soon as possible, to seize and exhibit some object which…
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Social Empowerment – a Way towards a Social Minimum of Justice
One way to look at global justice is to find a way to define a social minimum according to which global justice can be defined. Although there are many different ways in which this minimum as the core of global social justice can be defined, I’d like to take a look at the so-called capabilities approach. I…
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What if all first pages would sound like this?
What value is, what sure is, what man is, these questions are taken to be dangerous and shut away again pretty fast. It is said that they open the way to ‘anything goes’, ‘anything is possible’, ‘all is worthless’. Look, they add, what happens to the ones who go beyond this limit: Nietzsche taken hostage…
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Academic life…
“…the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre…” ~ Hannah Arendt
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Rebuilding Trust: Who to Trust in a Nihilist World?
People often wonder what they would do in grave situations. Would they jump in the water to save a person from drowning? Or would they look the other way? Discussions regarding this often surmount to a general shrugging of the shoulders: we don’t know, how could we know and let’s leave it at that. In…