englischHow to face the Socratic riddle? This book offers some clues to address the problem of Socrates and the Socratic philosophies from different perspectives that include the problem of Socrates and the Socratic environment, Plato’s Socrates, the Socratic lines, with special attention to [...]

englischJohn Amos Comenius (1592-1670) is inspired by many sources and is connected to many developments after him. Thus he enters into manifold constellations à la Dieter Henrich: elements of a shared cognitive space in which creative impulses unfold. This volume explores such constellations in [...]

Die Hauptbruchlinie in der heutigen Metaethik verläuft zwischen Kognitivismus und Non-Kognitivismus. Der Streit beginnt schon bei der Charakterisierung dieser Positionen. In diesem Band wird der Non-Kognitivismus im Sinne der folgenden Doppelthese verstanden und vertreten: Ethische Normsätze können [...]

englischThis book provides an overall account of the history of philosophy in the 20th century from a clear philosophical perspective. It shows the new departure in philosophical thinking through Frege and Husserl: The validity of philosophical thinking emancipated itself from psychology and [...]

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 [...]

englischFew other semantic fields pervade Plato’s oeuvre, from the earliest to the latest works, in such a definitive and ambivalent way as that of mimesis. From the philosophy of language to aesthetics and moral psychology, from metaphysics to cosmology and theology: in a strikingly large array of [...]