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Cécile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. In a book rich with historical examples she argues that spying is only justified to protect against ongoing violations of fundamental rights. Blackmail, bribery, mass surveillance, cyberespionage, treason, and other nefarious activities are considered.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations of Works by Hegel -- Introduction: Hegel on Practical and Political Identity -- 1. The Sources of Political Identity: From "Anthropology" toCivil Society -- 2. Patriotism and the Nature of the State -- 3. Das Volk als Staat: National Identity as a Component ofPolitical Identity -- 4. Agency in World History -- 5. Political Identity and Absolute Spirit -- 6. Evolving Nationalities, Ethical Cosmopolitanism: HegelBeyond the Nation State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1. Reconfiguring Spirit -- 2. Group Formation and Divisions in the Young Hegelian School -- Part 2: Religion, Politics, Freedom -- 3. The Metaphysical and Theological Commitments of Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Hegelianism -- 4. Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and the Question of "Right" and "Left" Hegelianism -- 5. Politics, Religion, and Personhood: The Left Hegelians and the Christian German State -- 6. Hegelianism and the Politics of Contingency -- Part 3: Politics, Civil Society, Ethics -- 7. Hegelianism and the Theory of Political Opposition -- 8. Between Hegel and Marx: Eduard Gans on the "Social Question" -- 9. Post-Kantian Perfectionism -- Part 4: Art and the Modern World -- 10. The Aesthetics of the Hegelian School -- 11. Karl Rosenkranz and the "Aesthetics of the Ugly" -- Part 5: Appropriations and Critiques of Hegel -- 12. Some Political Implications of Feuerbach's Theory of Religion -- 13. Max Stirner and the End of Classical German Philosophy -- 14. Ruge and Marx: Democracy, Nationalism, and Revolution in Left Hegelian Debates -- 15. Marx, German Idealism, and Constructivism -- Index -- Contributors

Intro -- Contents of Volume Two -- A Brief Introduction to Volume Two -- Part 3. The Doctrine of the Meaning of Human Life -- 13. Freedom -- 14. Humanity -- 15. Will -- 16. Right -- 17. Morality -- 18. Ethical Life -- 19. On Personhood and Its Virtue -- 20. On the State -- 21. The Limit of the Human -- 22. Conclusion: The Crisis of Theodicy -- Bibliographic Appendix -- Table of Page Equivalents for the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion -- Glossary

AbstractAnscombe's 1971 inaugural lecture at Cambridge, entitled 'Causality and Determination', has had a lasting influence on a remarkably broad range of philosophers and philosophical debates, touching on fundamental topics in philosophy of science, action theory, the free will debate, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. Especially where anti-reductionist or pluralist strands of philosophical thought are being seriously considered, one should not be surprised to find references to Anscombe's lecture. Moreover, there appears to be a growing interest in Anscombe's comprehensive philosophical outlook, as attested by the recent publication of a weighty collection of essays spanning that outlook in its full breadth in the prestigious Routledge Philosophical Minds series. Against this background it is apt that now, 50 years after the original lecture, a Topical Collection sees the light, circling around the most central themes from Anscombe's lecture, with a particular emphasis on the question how these hang together, how they form part of the larger philosophical project that Anscombe obviously intended the lecture to highlight. This Introduction motivates the Topical Collection, and introduces the various contributions against that background.

Aristotle examines the role of leisure (scholé) in the optimal life of the citizen (Politics VII/VIII). In the quest for the most desirable life- understood as the proper combination of political and contemplative elements- Aristotle ascribes an important role to leisure. Varga explores the two books in terms of the notion of scholé and shows the inadequacy of previous interpretations of Aristotle's proposed design for the commonwealth

What can we learn about the nature of technology by studying practices of maintenance and repair? This volume addresses this question by bringing together scholarship from philosophers of technology working at the forefront of this emerging and exciting topic.
The chapters in this volume explore how attending to maintenance and repair can challenge and complement existing ways of thinking about technology focused on use and design and introduce new philosophical perspectives on the relationship between technology, time and human practice. They examine the significance of maintenance and repair practices at different scales in relation to a diverse range of philosophical traditions and a wide variety of technologies, from urban infrastructure such as bridges and buildings to data technologies such as servers and software systems. Together, the contributions highlight common themes in the philosophical study of maintenance, including the role of skill, the significance of social values and the potential of these practices to transform the technologies to which they are applied. By reflecting on the different ways in which we keep technologies going, from the devices we use in our homes to the large technical systems which surround us, this volume reveals the philosophical significance of practices of maintenance, not only as a source of new insights but also as a resource for enriching our understanding of a variety of existing topics in philosophy.
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of technology, philosophy of engineering and science & technology studies.

US-Präsident Barack Obama bezeichnet den US-Theologen Reinhold Niebuhr als seinen Lieblingsphilosophen. Weitere amerikanische Führungspersönlichkeiten wie Hillary Clinton, John McCain oder Jimmy Carter berufen sich in ihren Schriften auf das Denken Niebuhrs. Im deutschsprachigen Raum gibt es dennoch keine umfassende Darstellung des Werkes dieses einflussreichen Predigers, Präsidentenberaters und Publizisten. Die Arbeit möchte diese als schmerzlich empfundene Lakuna füllen. Niebuhrs Anthropologie wird ebenso dargestellt wie die Wirksamkeit seiner außenpolitischen Analysen. Dazu werden noch unbekannte Facetten Niebuhrs als Unterstützer deutscher Exilanten im Widerstand gegen das Dritte Reich hervorgehoben. Sein Christlicher Realismus stellt Bausteine zur Konstruktion einer realistischen Sozialethik bereit. Das Buch richtet sich an Politikwissenschaftler, Theologen, Pädagogen und Historiker. Reinhold Niebuhr belongs to the greatest American intellectuals of the 20th century. U.S. President Obama called him his »favorite philosopher«. However, Niebuhr's thinking is quite neglected in the German-speaking intellectual sphere. This book intends to fill this lacuna. After an introduction of his Christian Realism it is shown that Niebuhr intensively supported different German socialist resistance groups against the Third Reich inside the United States. Furthermore, his influence on international theory and foreign policy analysis is reconstructed and evaluated in the context of current political developments. Der amerikanische Präsident Barack Obama nennt Reinhold Niebuhr seinen »Lieblingsphilosophen«; Hillary Clinton, John McCain und Jimmy Carter berufen sich ebenso auf Niebuhr. Während das Interesse an Niebuhr in den USA eine erstaunliche Renaissance erfährt, ist sein Christlicher Realismus im deutschsprachigen Raum in Vergessenheit geraten. Die Arbeit möchte diese als schmerzlich empfundene Lakuna füllen. Die umfassende Arbeit ist für Theologen und Sozialethiker ebenso relevant wie für Pädagogen und Politikwissenschaftler. Christoph Rohde ist Lehrbeauftragter an der Hochschule für Politik München und als selbständiger Dozent im Bereich Volkswirtschaft und Medienpolitik für verschiedene Bildungsträger tätig. Dazu schreibt er als Journalist zu gesellschaftspolitischen Themen. Seine Dissertation »Hans J. Morgenthau und der weltpolitische Realismus« erhielt den Förderpreis der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München im Jahre 2002. Zuletzt veröffentlichte er zusammen mit Jodok Troy das Buch »Macht, Recht, Demokratie – zum Staatsverständnis Hans J. Morgenthaus«.

Language not only objectively expresses the thought of a proposition but also indicates the speaker's emotion, attitude, and viewpoints toward a proposition, which is called subjectivity in the study. Subjectivity is one of the main topics in philosophy. However, the phenomenon of subjectivity is mainly discussed at the word, construction, or syntactic level from the perspective of linguistics. To better the characteristics of speakers as subjects in social practice activities and cognitive activities, an analytical framework of subjectivity in discourse from the perspective of philosophy was constructed to investigate subjectivity at the discourse level. Three aspects, that is, experience, mental and communicative models, were explored. The results show that (1) the constructed analytical framework clearly shows the social characteristics of subjectivity in discourse; (2) the experience model is divided into the speaker's social and cultural experience; (3) the mental model is construed as the speaker's mental cognition, reflected by the speaker's mental stance and emotion; (4) the communicative model is represented by the speaker's communicative intention and communicative practice, including appeal, command and announcement. The study provides an analytical framework to dig up the subjective nature of language and the relationship among speakers, society and discourse. This study also enriches the research on subjectivity and discourse analysis.

Nicholas Vrousalis argues that exploitation is a form of domination, namely enrichment through the domination of others. This form of domination, being reducible to neither unfairness nor to defective consent, structurally pervades capitalist relations between consenting adults, as well as oppressive gender and race relations.

'Disability Through the Lens of Justice' offers a contextual framework for considering the limitations that disability places on individuals. Specifically, those that prevent individuals from having control in certain domains of their life, by restricting the availability of acceptable options or the ability to choose between them. Begon argues that our theory of justice should be concerned with the lives individuals can lead, and not with whether their bodies and minds function typically. The problem that disability raises is not the mere fact of difference, but the ways in which that difference is accommodated (or not) and the limitations it may cause.

What is wrong with discriminating on the basis of personal appearance? Andrew Mason considers this question in three contents: employment decisions; the choice of friends or romantic partners; and the everyday practice of judging and commenting upon people's looks.

Cécile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. In a book rich with historical examples she argues that spying is only justified to protect against ongoing violations of fundamental rights. Blackmail, bribery, mass surveillance, cyberespionage, treason, and other nefarious activities are considered.

In 'Sharing Territories', Cara Nine defends a river model of territorial rights. On a river model, groups are assumed to be interdependent and overlapping. Drawing on natural law philosophy, Nine's theory argues for the establishment of foundational territories around geographical areas like rivers.