Am 22. und 23 November 2003 fand, ausgerichtet vom Atelier Neue Musik in der Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gesellschaft für Musik uns Ästhetik, der Kongress "ars humana) - Zur Position des Menschen in den Künsten unserer Zeit " statt. Dieser Band versammelt die Vorträge und die Abschlussdiskusion. Die beiden CDś dokumentieren die Konzerte.

On the supposition that one’s ethics and politics are fundamentally dignitarian in a broadly Kantian sense—as specifically opposed to identitarian and capitalist versions of Statism, e.g., neoliberal nation-States, whether democratic or non-democratic—hence fundamentally non-coercive and non-violent, then is self-defense or the defense of innocent others, using force, ever rationally justifiable and morally permissible or obligatory? We think that the answer to this hard question is yes; correspondingly, in this essay we develop and defend a theory about the permissible use of (...) force in a broadly Kantian dignitarian moral and political setting, including its extension to non-violent civil disobedience in the tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr; and perhaps surprisingly, we also import several key insights from Samurai and Martial Arts ethics into our theory. (shrink)