Wahrheit, Zeit und Freiheit

2018

How do our perceptions come about? If our ways of forming them is deterministically given, skeptical objections can no longer be warded off. We might as well be calibrated for errors. If, instead, our cognition works unbounded and free, there is no compulsion to fall prey to error. It is therefore advisable to understand cognitive formation as a plurimodal interaction of activities of perception, imagination and verbalization, the course of which is never determined by the conditions under which it currently stands. Further, we should not describe ourselves as mere "res cogitans," no matter what the philosophical intentions: there is no sense in assuming that we are determined to perform activities of cognition only. In dealing with two major historical examples, these assumptions are developed and tested. It is shown why René Descartes unexpectedly champions them, and which consequences ensue from John Locke´s disregarding them.

Heidegger's treatment of the topic of truth in "Being and Time" is confronted with many criticisms. Of special importance is the thesis that Heidegger is unable to provide a general analysis of the truth of a statement; furthermore, the claim is influential that when being concerned with Dasein's disclosedness Heidegger does not succeed in plausibly dealing with the topic of truth. This paper offers a new approach to Heidegger's conception as presented in "Being and Time" and defends it against well-known criticisms. It also reveals various positive impulses of this conception for the problem of truth and the philosophy of language.

Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 2010

Medienwandel kompakt 2014–2016, 2017

2011

arcor.de

2014

The title of this paper is 'Time and Soul. A study of the mediation problem between Time and Soul in the works of Aristotle (Phys IV 1014) and its reception in the works of Paul Ricœur'. The goal of this paper is to show that, using Aristotle as a starting point, new perspectives open up regarding the interpretation of the Aristotelian concept of time, so long as it is subjected to a Relecture by utilizing the concept of ψυχή. This paper will proceed as follows: first, a brief summary of Aristotelian natural philo-sophy will be provided, in order to facilitate the study of Aristotle's treatise on time. A close reading of the treatise will follow in chapter 2. Aspects which are central to the flow and aims of the paper will be emphasised (concept of nature, concept of motion, theory of the four principles). Chapter 3 contains a close reading of the Aristotelian concept of time as it is presented in the work 'Time and Narrative' by the French philosopher Paul Ricœu...

Zukunft, 2016

Auf Vorschlag von Landeshauptmann Peter Kaiser soll bis zum nächsten Bundesparteitag ein inhaltlicher Katalog erstellt werden, der das Verhältnis zur FPÖ klarstellen und mögliche Kriterien für Kooperationen auf Gemeinde-, Länder- und Bundesebene angeben soll. Dieser Kriterienkatalog würde den Bundesparteitagsbeschluss von 2014, in dem sich die SPÖ »klar gegen eine Koalition mit der FPÖ auf allen politischen Ebenen« ausspricht, erneuern, präzisieren, ablösen oder aufheben. Zeit für eine ideologisch-strategische Selbstvergewisserung, meint Daniel Lehner.