Beschrieben wird der Dialog zwischen philosophischem und theologischem Denken von der Frühzeit bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Hansjürgen Verweyen, eine Kapazität auf dem Gebiet der Religionsphilosophie, gibt in dieser Verschränkung von Philosophie- und Glaubensgeschichte Einblicke in die wichtigsten Themen und Personen, von der vorgriechischen Magie bis zu Karl Marx und Friedrich Nietzsche. Außerdem begibt er sich ins Zentrum entscheidender Debatten um Gottesbegriff und Fundamentaltheologie, die auch gerade heute wieder geführt werden. Ein besonderes Anliegen ist dabei die Prüfung politisch-religiöser Gehalte und die (...) Beziehungen von weltlicher und geistlicher Autorität. Damit steht das Buch auch im Brennpunkt der gegenwärtigen Überlegungen zu fundamentalistischen Glaubensformen und politischer Theologie. (shrink)

Economic environmental valuation remains a much debated and contested issue. Concerns have been voiced that it is unable to capture the manifold immaterial values of ecosystems due to conceptual and methodological issues. Thus, additional value categories (social values) as well as novel valuation approaches like deliberative (monetary) valuation are areas of growing interest, yet the theoretical foundations are rather weak. Against this background, this article aims to develop a consistent conceptual framework for making sense of social values in economic environmental (...) valuation. Based on a holistic view of society and individuals, the role of institutions, the social environment, culture and transcendental values is emphasised. To synthesise diverging concepts of value into an economic concept and to account for the multidimensionality of social values, the framework consists of three spheres: social, natural and contextual. The novel framework demonstrates that social values may be integrated into a preference-based utility framework when denoting a holistic understanding of social preferences and human embeddedness in nature and society. (shrink)

This is not the style an academic should adopt who wants to get a tenured position today. It even took the University of Königsberg fifteen years after Kant had earned his doctoral degree before they appointed him to a chair in philosophy. For those among us who feel already somewhat beyond the time bracket which allows for competition and efficiency, it may be consoling to know that Kant published his Critique of Pure Reason, the Copernican work in philosophy which molded (...) the thought of all centuries to come, at the age of 57. The famous little work which shall provide us with the focal text for this lecture, Kant’s essay On Eternal Peace, appeared in 1795 when he was 71. (shrink)