Zusammenfassung aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Politik - Grundlagen und Allgemeines, notice: 2,0, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Diese Zusammenfassung bietet einen Überblick über das Einführungswerk "Strukturwandel der Demokratietheorien" von Richard Saage und Ingrid Thienel-Saage.

Aus dem Inhalt:
Demokratieverständnis der Antike.
Partizipationsmodelle der Frühen Neuzeit.
Demokratie am Vorabend der Französischen Revoltution.
Demokratietheorie in der Französischen Revolution.
Demokratietheorien des 19. Jahrhunderts in Frankreich und England.
Demokratie in Deutschland ab 1800.
Demokratietheoretische Paradigmen in den ersten Republiken in Deutschland und Österreich.
Reduzierte Demokratietheorien im Schatten des 2. Weltkrieges.

This booklet is ready strength and freedoms in our technological global and has major goals. the 1st is to illustrate theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality speculation mixed with the potential strategy comes in handy for a greater figuring out of strength and freedoms in Ambient Intelligence, a global the place details and conversation applied sciences are invisible, interconnected, context conscious, custom-made, adaptive to people and act autonomously. the second one is to argue that those theories are valuable for a greater comprehension of privateness and information security innovations and the evolution in their rules. Having those pursuits in brain, the publication outlines a couple of theses in line with threads: first, the removal of the social results of uncertainty and the hazards to freedoms and, moment, the vindication of rights. encouraged through and development at the results of alternative philosophical and felony methods, this publication embodies an attempt to higher comprehend the demanding situations posed via Ambient Intelligence applied sciences, commencing paths for better awareness of rights and rooting criminal norms within the maintenance of the potentiality of human capabilities.

looking on how one construes the kinship relatives, expertise has been both the stepchild of philosophy or its grandfather. In both case, know-how has no longer been taken into the bosom of the relations, yet has needed to look forward to cognizance, care and feeding, whereas the extra doubtful components - technology, artwork, politics, ethics - have been being nurtured (or wiped clean up). Don Ihde places expertise in the course of issues, and develops a philosophy of know-how that's straight away distinct, revealing and notion­ scary. mostly, philosophy of expertise has existed at, or past, the margins of the philosophy of technology, and for this reason the query of know-how has grow to be posed (when it truly is) both by way of historians of know-how or by means of social critics. The philosophy of know-how, as research and critique of the suggestions, methodologies, implicit epistemologies and ontologies of technological praxis and concept, has remained underdeveloped. whilst philosophy does flip its cognizance to the insistent presence of know-how, it unavoidably casts the query in a single or one other of the dominant modes of philosophical interpretation and reconstruction. hence, the common sense of technological pondering and perform has been an issue of a few systematic paintings (e. g. , within the Praxiology of Kotarbinski and Kotarbinska, between others). And the query of technology's relation to technological know-how has been posed within the framework of the nomological version of clarification within the sciences - e. g.

1975 erschien Harichs "Kommunismus ohne Wachstum" - das erste Werk eines Marxisten, das sich mit den ökologischen Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart beschäftigte. Harichs Thesen wurden seinerzeit breit diskutiert. Dies führte dazu, dass er in den folgenden Jahren sein ursprüngliches Konzept mehrfach überarbeitete und ergänzte. Der vorliegende Band bildet diese Wandlungen ab. Er präsentiert Artikel, Briefe und Manuskripte, in denen Harich sich immer stärker genossenschaftlichen, friedenspolitischen, utopischen und feministischen Überlegungen zuwandte. Zu den hier herausgegebenen Schriften gehören auch der wichtige "Brief an Willy Brandt" sowie Harichs Aufsatz "Das Weib in der Apokalypse". Auch sein Engagement in Österreich und der Bundesrepublik von 1979 bis 1981 wird berücksichtigt. Eingeleitet wird die Auswahl von einem Essay des Herausgebers zu Harichs ökologischer Theorie.

Are there common values of correct and flawed, reliable and undesirable, shared by means of almost each human? The culture of usual legislations argues that there's. Drawing at the paintings of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose analyses have touched upon matters relating to unique sin, trespass, guilt, and salvation via reparation, during this 2006 publication C. Fred Alford provides an additional measurement to this argument: we all know typical legislations to be precise simply because we now have hated prior to we now have enjoyed and feature needed to smash sooner than we have now desired to create. ordinary legislation is outfitted upon the need to make reparation for the goodness now we have destroyed, or have longed to spoil. via reparation, we earn salvation from the main hateful a part of ourselves, that which might break what we all know to be good.

he current ebook and its significant other quantity The Tensed idea of Time: a T severe exam are an try to adjudicate what one fresh discussant has known as "the so much basic query within the philosophy of time," specifically, "whether a static or a dynamic belief ofthe global is right. "] I had initially meant to regard this question within the area of a unmarried quantity; however the learn swelled into . i discovered that an sufficient appraisal of those competing theories of time calls for a wide-ranging dialogue of concerns in metaphysics, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of area and time, or even philosophy of faith, and that this easily couldn't be performed in a single quantity. If those volumes reach creating a contribution to the talk, it is going to be accurately end result of the synoptic nature of the dialogue therein. Too usually the query of the character of time has been upfront spoke back via a few thinker or physicist just because he's mostly blind to proper discussions open air his selected box of craftsmanship. In those complementary yet self sufficient volumes i've got tried to appraise what I take to be an important arguments drawn from quite a few fields for and opposed to every one concept of time.

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This quantity presents an summary of the newest advancements in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impression and value for moral pondering. It comprises contributions of students either from philosophy, theology and empirical sciences with company standings of their personal disciplines, yet a tendency to step throughout borders—in specific the single among the area of evidence and the realm of norms. Human morality is complicated, and possibly even messy—and this fresh contrast turns into blurred at any time when one seems to be extra heavily on the a number of parts that allow and impact our ethical activities and moral orientations. In that method, morality may perhaps certainly be positioned among proof and norms—and an empirically proficient ethics that's much less interested in analytical purity yet immerses into this ethical complexity will be an enormous step to make the contributions of ethics to this international extra beneficial and suitable. ​

This publication demanding situations universal debates in philosophy of brain by means of wondering the framework of placement difficulties in modern metaphysics. the writer argues that placement difficulties come up whilst precisely one primary ontology serves because the base for all entities, and may suggest a pluralist replacement that takes the variety of our conceptual assets and ontologies heavily. This basic pluralist account is utilized to matters in philosophy of brain to argue that modern debates concerning the mind-body challenge are outfitted in this troublesome framework of placement problems.

The start line is the plurality of ontologies in clinical perform. not just do we describe the area by way of actual, organic, or mental ontologies, yet any severe engagement with medical ontologies will determine extra particular ontologies in each one area. for instance, there isn't one unified ontology for biology, yet relatively a variety of clinical specializations with assorted ontological wishes. according to this account of scientific perform the writer argues that there's no cause to imagine that ontological unification needs to be attainable far and wide. with out this excellent, the scope of ontological unification seems to be an open empirical query and there's no have to current unification mess ups as philosophically perplexing “placement problems”.

Entwicklungen der Lebenswissenschaften versprechen nicht mehr nur Heilerfolge, sondern auch eine Optimierung des Menschen. Stichworte wie "Hirndoping" und "Designer-Babys" verweisen dabei auf Potenziale und Gefahren von Möglichkeiten der Selbstgestaltung durch Biotechniken. Solche neuen Handlungsoptionen fordern unser Normensystem heraus und bedürfen einer bioethischen Reflexion. Der Band zeigt aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive Wege auf, die Herausforderungen insbesondere der Genetik und Neurowissenschaften anzunehmen. Dabei werden sowohl ethische Grundlagen als auch die gesellschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Selbstgestaltung des Menschen in den Blick genommen.