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Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a mathematician deal critically with several aspects of Plantinga's seminal work. In a long essay, Plantinga answers these critics. Dieter Schönecker, University of Siegen, Germany.

Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten gehört zu den herausragenden Schriften der Philosophiegeschichte. Dieser einführende Kommentar richtet sich besonders an Studierende. Er ist bereits für Studienanfänger benutzbar und erschließt dennoch das Werk in seinem gesamten Umfang. Der besondere Wert des Kommentars für die Arbeit im Seminar liegt darin, dass er Kants Argumentation nah am Text erläutert und transparent macht. Knappe Kommentare verweisen auf die philosophischen Grundprobleme, die in einzelnen Passagen angesprochen werden. So bietet der Text Anknüpfungspunkte für die kritische Diskussion. Eine Auswahlbibliographie gibt Hinweise zur vertiefenden Lektüre.

Abstract
In the Introduction of the Tugendlehre, Kant identifies love of human beings as one of the four moral predispositions that make us receptive to the moral law. We claim that this love is neither benevolence nor the aptitude of the inclination to beneficence in general (both are also called love of human beings); rather it is amor complacentiae, which Kant understands as the delight in moral striving for perfection. We also provide a detailed analysis of Kant's almost completely neglected theory of moral predispositions. They are necessary conditions to be aware of the moral law and to be motivated by it.

The 2nd edition has been revised and updated. Whoever wants to philosophize must do three things: analyze for himself, argue for himself, and interpret for himself. This book enables one to learn the methods of philosophy through exercises and solutions close to philosophical practice; particular emphasis is put on close textual interpretation. This book is excellent both for the university and for self-study

Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals from 1785 is one of the most important and influential texts in the whole history of philosophy. Its central purpose is to develop the categorical imperative. The present collected volume contains papers on central theoretical aspects.

The so-called 'argument from religious experience' plays a prominent role in today's analytical philosophy of religion. It is also of considerable importance to richard Swinburne's apologetic project. However, rather than joining the polyphonic debate around this argument, the present paper examines the fundamental concept of religious experience. The upshot is that Swinburne neither develops a convincing concept of experience nor explains what makes a religious experience religious. The first section examines some problems resulting mainly from terminology, specifically Swinburne's use of appear-words as success-verbs. While these problems might be resolved by a recurrence to the observer, the second and third part of our paper present problems not so easily resolved: namely, that Swinburne's concept of experience as conscious mental events is too broad and inaccurate for its role in the argument given (Section 2); and that Swinburne does not even attempt to figure out which features of an experience, when present, turn an experience simpliciter into a distinctly religious experience (Section 3). Section 4, in conclusion, outlines possible reasons for this unusual and remarkable inaccuracy in conceptualisation.

Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten gehört zu den herausragenden Schriften der Philosophiegeschichte. Dieser einführende Kommentar richtet sich besonders an Studierende. Er ist bereits für Studienanfänger benutzbar und erschließt dennoch das Werk in seinem gesamten Umfang. Der besondere Wert des Kommentars für die Arbeit im Seminar liegt darin, dass er Kants Argumentation nah am Text erläutert und transparent macht. Knappe Kommentare verweisen auf die philosophischen Grundprobleme, die in einzelnen Passagen angesprochen werden. So bietet der Text Anknüpfungspunkte für die kritische Diskussion. Eine Auswahlbibliographie gibt Hinweise zur vertiefenden Lektüre.