englischThis original collection of essays by some of the best world specialists of ancient Greek philosophy focuses on the philosophical texts written during the Hellenistic and Imperial times under the names of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Their unknown authors claimed to convey the positions [...]

englischFor a long time, the natural sciences owed their success to the strategy of reducing phenomena to a few effective causes. Today, an additional approach is emerging: thinking in terms of complex systems.

It explains a kind of illusory world that is beginning to establish itself between [...]

englischAn introduction to anthropological, ontological, and cosmological views of Scientology is presented in close connection with its ethical and educational principles. The dogmatic conceptions of anthropology and pedagogy are critically confronted with the value conceptions of large cultural [...]

englischThe purpose of this essay is to explain human religiosity as a phenomenon resulting from biological evolution and a neurological set of equipment which can help human beings reduce existential anxiety by offering them metaphysical security and meaning. Thereby, a form of philosophy in the [...]

englischThe context in which the author places the concept of substantial morality (Sittlichkeit) is the history of Athens from about 490 to 430 B.C. This facilitates the understanding of a (political) way of life that is quite foreign to us in modern times. This also makes the concept of modern [...]