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Theorie und Praxis in philosophischer Perspektive
Regeln sind nahezu allgegenwärtig. Sie leiten unser Handeln in den Wissenschaften ebenso wie in Recht, Politik, Schule, Wirtschaft und im alltäglichen Leben. Regeln sind außerdem Dreh- und Angelpunkt im Evaluationsgeschehen. Die vorliegende philosophische Analyse wirft einen genaueren Blick darauf, wie Regeln funktionieren, wie sie Handeln koordinieren und wie sie beurteilt werden können. Eine Regelanalyse unter sprechakttheoretischen Voraussetzungen erlaubt es, die handlungsanleitende Kraft von Regeln zu erklären sowie Regeln rational-argumentativ zu beurteilen. Mit der Bereitstellung eines grundlegenden und anwendungsbezogenen Rahmenwerks der Beurteilung können konkrete und begründete Beurteilungen (zum Beispiel in moralischer Hinsicht) vorgenommen werden. Die gewonnenen Forschungsergebnisse sind auch für Nachbardisziplinen der Philosophie wie Rechts-, Sozial-, Wirtschafts- sowie Politikwissenschaft relevant.
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The mission of the Animals and Society Institute is to advance human knowledge to improve animal lives. Our vision is a compassionate world where animals flourish. The Brill Human-Animal Studies Series supports this mission and vision by publishing books that explore the relationship between human and nonhuman animals. It intentionally casts a wide net, producing titles from any setting, contemporary, historical, and prehistorical from the perspective of various disciplines within both the social sciences and humanities. The broad scope of the series is an acknowledgement of the contributions of a range of perspectives from across academia that often intersect in meaningful ways to build a scholarship of the nonhuman experience through a human lens. In the process, these books challenge the disciplinary cloisters that often hinder the transdisciplinary analysis that is vital to one the fastest growing fields in the academy. Whether examining the lived reality of nonhuman animals in environmental or legal settings or parsing human representations of those animals in popular culture, the Brill Human-Animal Studies Series presents a wide range of cutting-edge scholarship that always retains an eye to helping animals flourish and creating a more compassionate world.
Philosophy as a Way of Life (PWL) is both a meta-philosophy and a methodological approach to the study of philosophy, inspired by the work of the French scholar Pierre Hadot (1922-2010). As a methodology, PWL emphasizes that all ancient philosophical works reflect pedagogical and psychagogic concerns, and argues that these features should continue to be taken into account in contemporary philosophy. It is based largely on the practice of “spiritual exercises”, intended to transform the practitioner’s way of perceiving the world, and hence her mode of being, in order to enable her to lead a freer, more happy existence. Thus, PWL views philosophy in its fullest sense as profoundly transformational.

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies will make available English translations of key studies on PWL and publish scholarly monographs and edited collections that consider its different aspects and implications.

Books in this series will explore PWL in antiquity, the renaissance, the early modern period, and up to the present, PWL as a methodological approach to the history of philosophy, the implications of PWL for understanding education and its history, the cross-cultural possibilities it opens up, the relationships between PWL, virtue ethics and philosophy of culture, and the different literary genres of PWL, including the way these genres impact the style and content of ancient, medieval and early modern philosophical works.
The Epistemic Dimension of Right Action
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This book addresses a fundamental issue at the intersection of practical and theoretical philosophy: Does what we ought to do depend on our perspective as epistemic agents? Against the backdrop of this fundamental question, the author defends a new variant of perspectivism. Answering this question is essential to a theory of normative reasons, and the book thereby provides important insights for our understanding of rational deliberation and right action. One major upshot is a new explanation of phenomena where we are guided by facts outside of our perspective, such as deliberation and advice-giving. “Why perspective matters” engages with current debates from a wide range of philosophical areas, such as metaethics, epistemology, and moral psychology, to develop a novel account of perspectivism.
Die Diskussion über die Legitimität von Folter als letztes Mittel in Notsituationen
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Darf man einen Menschen foltern, um einen anderen dadurch zu retten? Das absolute Folterverbot gilt als unverzichtbar für den Schutz der Menschenwürde. Dennoch sind Notsituationen denkbar, in denen Folter als letztes Mittel moralisch erlaubt sein kann. Zum Beispiel dann, wenn eine Entführerin ihr Opfer an einem geheimen Ort gefangen hält und sich weigert, dessen Aufenthaltsort preiszugeben, mit der Absicht, das Opfer in seinem Versteck sterben zu lassen. Ist die ermittelnde Polizeibeamtin nun moralisch berechtigt, die Entführerin mit Folter zu einer Aussage zu zwingen? Darf sie die Würde der Entführerin verletzen, um das Leben des Opfers zu retten? Wird nicht auch die Würde des Opfers verletzt? Und gibt es bei einer Würde-gegen-Würde-Konstellation andere Aspekte, die in eine Güterabwägung einfließen müssen?
The spectacular progress of the life sciences during the last decades poses new ethical, social and political challenges. In our days, questions of scientific truth and scientific progress are inextricably intertwined with questions concerning ethics, social justice and democratic participation. This series focuses on newly emerging conceptual and practical interfaces between the life sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, in order to address this new complexity in scientifically and socially responsible ways.
"Origins", Transmissions, and Metamorphoses of Adab literature
The notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.